Monthly Archives: December 2008
Holiday Gifts for Wine Lovers
Every year I look for the ultimate gift for my husband, the wine lover. Joe makes a point of saying, "I don't play dress up with my wine!" So those cutesy "wine caddies" are definitely out. But I have found ...
Warning: Emotions Can Impair Your Drinking
Recently we attended a company holiday party. The invitation indicated each guest would receive two drink tickets, with all additional drinks available from the "cash bar." Upon arriving we learned that the bar policy had changed. One of the head ...
Semi-Random, Semi-Wine-Related Thoughts
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy, 5:23 Going through a list of wine quotes recently, I was surprised at how many of them had biblical roots ...
Wine Reviews
When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, ...
A brief musical interlude
An old French drinking song features the following lyric: Which warms the blood within our veins; That nectar is itself divine. The man who drinks not, yet attains By godly grace to human rank Would be an angel if he drank. That is apropo of absolutely ...
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