Visiting Napa Valley

March 25, 2021

It was exactly one l-o-n-g year ago that the world changed and we hunkered down. Now fully vaccinated, winter ending …

Right Bank Bordeaux

May 18, 2020

Saturday night with nothing to do and no place to go… it’s Zoom Happy Hour! I led a group through …

April 14, 2020

A tattered package arrived from Korea (via UPS) just 2 days before Easter. After quarantine and decontamination, the new bunny …

April 10, 2020

Whatever you call it- happy hour or aperitivo (Italy) or apèro(France), it’s 5 o’clock somewhere! No longer able to belly-up …

January 2, 2020

What do wine, cheese and Airbus have in common? They’re in the cross-hairs of President Trump’s tariff war!

December 30, 2019

Preparing holiday dinners is a challenging task not only for the chef but the wine guy as well. Days before …

September 16, 2019

My road trip to Santa Barbara wine country started at Justin Winery in Paso Robles, 3 hours south of Bay …