A penny for your thoughts

A penny for your thoughts

The other night at dinner I opened a bottle of 2024 Blaauwklippen Sauvignon Blanc from Stellenbosch, South Africa. I’d never tasted the wine before. Within seconds of putting my nose in the glass, I was inundated by the matchstick notes of sulfur, to the extent that I...
Café Exotique

Café Exotique

Praveenp, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Over the years I’d heard rumors about a mysterious coffee from the mystic east. It was said that this particular coffee was made from the berries of the coffee plant eaten by wild creatures, with the cherries excreted and...