Time for an update in the Wine Talk department. (Please, feel free to share any good wines that you may have encountered. I’d be happy to post them and your comments!) In celebrating my birthday recently, our neighbors and good friends, Hugh and Jen, brought two lovely wines over to […]
Let’s Talk Wine!
Today — a respite from the never-ending political spin of Washington — and on to something far more pleasant! Yesterday, we had a small celebration in my family and we decided to try something new and different for our wines. We have a Total Wine & More nearby that always […]
Hot Temperatures — Cool Wine!
Living in the desert in the winter with temperatures that can range from night time lows of 32 degrees to day time highs of 65 degrees, quickly makes you the envy of all of your “Back East” relatives, friends and co-workers. And rightfully so! While they’re shoveling snow — we’re shoveling […]
A Celebration of Spring!
People who haven’t traveled to the desert Southwest probably have some mental image of our landscape being somewhere between the images they’ve seen of Death Valley or the more recent photographs that have been released of Pluto. Well, years ago, I had those images, too. But now, after having lived here for 35 years, I’m […]
More On Great Wines!
It seems like Saturday night is as good a night as any other night to experiment with a new wine to see if it makes the “Let’s Buy This One Again” distinguished category! As usual, we are featuring both a red and a white here, as my husband prefers red […]
For All The “Red Lovers” Out There
Usually, you hear from me (also known as the “White Lover”). Today, my “Red Lover,” (also known as my husband), is weighing in with a great red wine he recently tried. I love the label so much, I’d buy it just for that. See the hummingbird? Trader Joe’s does it […]
Summer Is Here!
Now that summer is upon us — and I think I can officially say that, given that my car thermometer registered 116 degrees while driving the other day — it was time to think about a new light summer wine. A quick trip to Trader Joe’s was in order in the late […]