Speed Tasting Reds at 2010 Wine Bloggers Conference

How 300 wine bloggers were able to sip through the speed tasting of reds after a six hour school bus-driven mystery winery tour, I can only attribute our reconnection to the hotel’s Wi-Fi. That blast of energy buzzed us back to reality and once seated, we got back to the sport of speed tasting. One hour, twelve wines, ring that cowbell! [...]

Trio Runs Riot in Walla Walla Wine Country

In this age of wine as a second profession, you just never know when you’ll flip through a magazine and discover an old friend who has started a winery. It was in a 2008 Seattle wine magazine that I learned how Denise Slattery, my San Francisco neighbor circa 1987, is a now winemaker in Walla Walla. She collaborates with husband Steve Michener as well as Tim Boushey, and they are called Trio Vintners. [...]

What A Long Strange Three Months It’s Been

I’m not dead, just blogging elsewhere. It was that darned holiday season that pulled me away from here three months ago. [...]