food

  • No Pink Grapes!?!?!

    Last year, I sat at a tasting table with a very accomplished Sommelier in an exquisitely designed restaurant and expressed my love for Mourvèdre grapes while adding that it really rounds things out in the wine.  It gives it so much fullness. To which, he curtly said ~ “No, it doesn’t.  The exact opposite, actually.”   Yikes.  That was

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  • The Green Of Virginia Wine

    The week had promise. All had mostly gone smoothly and I felt pretty accomplished. I had pushed hard to get a lot done but later in the week, my new male co-worker had an issue with one of my decisions and the phone-call of emotional upset was more than I could handle.

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