You Kids Get Off My Lawn

n Pixar Usually I just roll with things and not too much bothers me. But like everybody else, I do a have my pet peeves with the wine world. Here are a few of them replete with more than a touch of hyperbole and sarcasm.Neon-Colored Plastic CorksA public service...

Two Remarkable Places for Lunch

n The Café at the Victoria & Albert Museum In and of itself, lunch is usually not a big deal. Most of the time it’s partaken solo either on the run, at one’s desk, or even in the car. Unless there’s a good reason to actually “plan” lunch as in sharing time with a...

A Meal for the End of Time

n “It’s an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.”Douglas Adams from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyNot long ago I finished re-reading the Douglas Adams novel, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. If you’ve not read it, I highly...

Game Day Skills: Tasting Exam Advice II

n My last post was the first of two installments comprised of advice I’ve given to tasting students over the years. In it I offered strategies concerning the overall use of the M.S. tasting grid as well as pointers for looking at and smelling wine in the context of an...