Ray Bradbury passed away today, leaving many science-fictional works behind (27 novels and 600 short stories to be exact). His one sort of autobiographical novel though was called Dandelion Wine. The main character is Douglas Spaulding, a 12-year-old boy whose grandfather makes dandelion wine during the summer. Most people think of dandelions as weeds, but the Spauldings … Continue reading
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god save the grapes
Jubilee Time! Celebrating with English wine? Yeah, probably not. But over the past few years, the quality has been gone way up. English sparkling wine producers RidgeView released a bottle of sparkling rosé, the Victoria, to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubliee. It’s 63% Pinot Meunier and 37% Pinot Noir, with a pale salmon color. I … Continue reading
mad men: the catcher in the whiskey
I’m not that into Mad Men trying to live in the world of one of my favorite books of all time, The Catcher in the Rye. I was getting Holden Caulfield vibes right from that Sally/Glenn convo when he’s in his prep school hallway. Then I realized that Holden dates a Sally in the city. … Continue reading
happy balcony happy hour!
Deep, deep rooftop rosé. Couldn’t love early summer more. Continue reading
mad men: wine passes on this episode
Again, this is a catch-up post but it’s a doozy. Last Sunday’s episode was the official first where no wine was consumed. But being the most amazing drink in the world, it is completely obvious why: the episode was about ugly things, and wine wanted NOTHING to do with it! Joan had her epic moral … Continue reading
happy showdown happy hour
Marlborough vs Napa. Marlborough won hands down!!! Love Heitz Cab, but this Sav Blanc didn’t have much going on compared to NZ. Continue reading
mad men: the coronation of megan
First of all, this is really delayed because I was on vacation and am just catching up on my Mad Men. So this one’s about the episode where Don and Joan went drinking and the other dude went chanting. It was getting really treacherous at the end because we were at like the 50-minute mark … Continue reading
this is what a wine blogger’s fridge looks like
Only room for essentials. And this doesn’t include the two wine fridges, or the reds on the floor that will definitely be prematurely aging in this heat! Continue reading
courtney loves wine
We all know Courtney Love has had her share of, uh, messy periods, but I am very jealous of this one story. “I’m not a big drinker, but Bono once gave me a bottle of Petrus in France. It gets you so stoned in a really opiated way, like you’d just taken a Vicodin. A … Continue reading
memorial day skate of wine!
This just happened. Skate of Wine. Venice Beach. So at Venice Ale House, you get to order samplers of wine and they serve it to you in an environmentally-apropos skateboard. I LOVE skaters and obv I love wine, so this was a slam dunk. They’ll choose the wines for you if you want, but that’s … Continue reading
