A Book and a Bottle – The Middle East Meets Australia
It’s time again to deviate from talking about the characters in my forthcoming book Vino Expressions – People, Wine, and Loving Work, and match a book
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Pre-Thanksgiving Pairing: Pink Grapefruit, Avocado & Watercress Salad – with a Riesling
Summer has long drawn to a close and winter is circling in. It’s time to take a break from writing about people involved with the
The Magical Little Wine Store of Jarnac
Charles Capbern-Gasqueton meets me by the River Charente in the town of Cognac in southwest France. He is tall and broad-shouldered. He has wavy dark
Another Book and a Bottle
Ready to crack open a new book and uncork a fresh bottle? Let’s go with non-fiction again. The book is titled Priceless – How I Went Undercover
Corner Lot Wine
The heat registers in the mid-90’s. It is July. Today, the first blast of blistering summer heat hits the town of Sonoma in northern California. By
The Alpine Cave
It is mid October. The sun is about to dip below mountains, but the light is still bright. Leaves have autumn colors. The white Alps
Straw Bale Wine
Last week a group of about twenty people worked above 8,500 feet elevation in the Zuni Mountains of New Mexico. We built a straw bale house. We
Where Vines and Wetlands Mesh
Thirty years ago, sheep herders struggled to feed their families in the Marlborough region of New Zealand. There were then only one or two wineries in the
A Book and a Bottle
As a break from reading about people who work with wine (which is the subject of the forthcoming book Vino Expressions – People, Wine, and Loving Work), let’s experiment with
