With a now 4-ish-month-old about, I’m doing a lot less of some things (sleeping, writing blog posts), and a LOT more of others, including diaper changes and rummaging through the sample pool of wine-related products that get sent to me. So in an attempt to rectify some of the former and share some of the…
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Dispatch from 1WD Paternity Leave: What We Drank on Shannon’s Birthday
Because my partner Shannon is out-of-this-world, she got first dibs on the wine sample pool for celebrating her recent birthday. Shannon has very specific tastes and makes no bones about expressing them—she favors Grenache reds and, well, we didn’t have any. Doh! BUT… she also favors German Sekt (yet another reason she’s a keeper!), which…
PSA: It Burns When I Feed (You Might Need to Resubscribe to 1WD!)
Just a very quick PSA – and apologies in advance to those of you to whom this does NOT pertain: There are still quite a few of you out there who are subscribed to 1WD via Feedburner, a once-awesome platform for managing blog updates via several channels, including email. For those of you signed up…
Alentejo Postcard, Part 4 (or “The Cake Doesn’t Need Icing” – Tasting Cortes de Cima)
When you visit Alentejo’s Cortes de Cima (as I did late in 2019 on a media jaunt), you realize that their geese are more than just “a loud alarm system” (as Winemaking Director Hamilton Reis put it). Those geese also eat vineyard pests, like slugs and snails. That’s not the only traditional thing that Cortes…