French wine

  • 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 Religious Wars

    The Religious Wars

    I wasn’t supposed to marry him. I was brought up right. I was raised in a good Southern Baptist Church. Went every week and was very active. I knew my Bible. I prayed. I was a deeply spiritual person. Very moral and wise. My parents did very good work bringing me up well so I

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