I just realized as I sat down to write this that I started off my last review with a familiar scenario: Me, wandering around a wine department, trying to decide on a wine and being helped by a pitying wine clerk. (Winey Tasting Notes: Finding Found Object) Let’s face it, it happens to us all. That…
It is not an unusual situation for me: there I am wandering the wine aisles of a favorite store, looking and looking and starting to feel a bit overwhelmed by all the sipping choices arrayed before me. In this case, it was Trader Joe’s and to be perfectly honest, I had only gone in to…
Organic. Never has such a harmless looking word inspired more debate. In the veggie aisle, the fruit bin, the cotton gin and yes, the vineyard, the benefits of and drawbacks of “organic” are debated. There are a growing number of organic wines out there for us to sip on. My own curiosity finally got the best of…
Those of us of a certain age will remember that the above title to this post is actually the name of one of comedic genius Steve Martin’s comedy routines. In addition to the movies and Saturday Night Live, the guy had one heck of a stand up act. I fondly remember listening to his comedy album…
I’ll put it right out there: I LOVE DOWNTON ABBEY! Every Sunday morning at church, I give a little prayer of thanks that another episode will be showing that night. I love the whole idea of a classy soap opera spoken in English accents. I love the fashions. AND I love Maggie Smith as the…
As I write this, there is a bit of a moral victory being celebrated in the Winey household. Not by anybody but me, mind you, but it’s still there. That’s because the month of January is coming to a close and….the Christmas decorations have been down for three weeks!! Now, I can hear some of…
Both of the Winey Children have been to Spain. The Winey Mom and Hubby: nope. It may be because we took French in our high school days. Stay with me here.. Both the Winey Kids are Spanish students and have been since middle school. When you get to a certain level at their high school,…
The holidays are over (The Winey Son is back at West Point, the Winey Daughter back to high school, Winey Hubby back to work), but the wonderful memory lingers! We had a classic Christmas in Northeast Ohio this year: family, fun and lots and lots of snow. So pretty! The white stuff is especially pretty…
New Year’s Day in the Winey Household is a fairly typical celebration. Sleep late. Watch bowl games. Eat lots of buffalo chicken dip. Sound familiar to you? (You can insert your own favorite dip – it just happens that we are on a buffalo chicken dip kick this year.) You can also add one other…
I know what you are thinking right now! I really do. You saw the word “Merlot” in the title of this post and you immediately recalled that now infamous line from the movie Sideways: “No, if anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am NOT drinking any @#*$ Merlot!” Come on, we all do it. Even if…
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