Nov 1, 2024 | Blog, Weekly Wine Adventure
Wine has often intersected with politics throughout history. Wine symbolizes social rank, regional affiliations, and political allegiances in Britain from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. In the United States, wine has played a role in presidential...
Oct 19, 2024 | Blog, Weekly Wine Adventure
Recently, someone mentioned, “When we go out, my friends and I greatly favor cocktails over wine. The sugar content in wine leaves us feeling awful the following day.” That didn’t make any sense. Knowing that my friend only drinks dry wine, there is...
Oct 5, 2024 | Blog, Weekly Wine Adventure
The wine community is experiencing a crisis like we’ve never had before. People seem to have forgotten that wine has been the center of social gatherings for millennia. Karen McNeil, author of the Wine Bible, and several colleagues have created a promotion...
Aug 2, 2024 | Blog, Weekly Wine Adventure
Here are a few excerpts from an article written by our friend, the wine writer W. Blake Gray, ten years ago. It’s an interesting read in today’s political climate. When Republicans drank wine, they favored Robert Mondavi. Democrats drank Smoking Loon by...
Jul 14, 2024 | Weekly Wine Adventure
Several years ago, Scott received a Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis. Given his occupation, this was particularly alarming. We enrolled in a Kaiser class for dietary advice, where we learned that alcohol consumption is permissible in moderation. There is a popular...
