Above: Just look at the beautiful copper color of that wine! Wine’s visual beauty is one of the great pleasures of oenophilia. These days, my days are INSANE. With only three or four weeks left in our pregnancy, Tracie P needs as much down time as possible and I’m picking up as much slack as […]
Above: Werner Morandell netting his vineyards in the Mendel Pass (image via his Facebook). As Giovanni notes today on his excellent blog Terra Uomo Cielo, this is the time of year when grape growers treat their vineyards with sulfur and copper to reduce the risk of fungal diseases, chiefly oidium and perenospora. At the sound […]
In Italian, still life is called natura morta, literally, dead nature, in other words, inanimate nature. Yesterday, Tracie P and I visited the San Diego home of friends and wine club clients Chrissa and Dan, where we took these photos. After winning her battle with cancer, the couple decided to devote their lives to homesteading: […]
Above: On Sunday, Tracie P, Franco, and I tasted seven wines with the great maestro of Barbaresco and Barolo, Bruno Giacosa (above), and his enologist Giorgio Lavagna. Photo by Tracie P. How can I begin to describe the emotion that ran through our veins when we sat down on a beautiful snow-covered Sunday morning in […]
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