New Year with a new blog about an great wines and great old wines.

We had visited just about all of the wine regions in California during my many years in the wine business. This trip we got a ground floor glimpse of the up and coming Tehachapi Mountain AVA and a last image of the disappearing Cucamonga Valley AVA. UPDATE: I’ve attached tasting notes from our recent Tehachapi/Cucamonga tasting

Our Ann Arbor wine group tackles the wines of Central Italy

Linda Cox invited us to enjoy some very interesting Chardonnays in memory of her late husband Dr. Ed Cox.

We love golfing in northern Michigan and trying new restaurants as well as renewing our acquaintance with those which I used to supply when I worked in that territory

Most Michigan guys like to pose with a 24” lunker pulled out of their favorite fishing hole. I’d prefer a 24” stalk of wild asparagus pulled out of the rough on my favorite golf course.

On a quest to find good Georgia grown wines, we explored the North Atlanta area.

Bargain wines from local big box stores.

For 2024, I’ll continue digging up old wines from the cellar before both Alice and I are subterranean ourselves.

We are getting too old to be hoarding wine. Time to drink them!

We love Cod fish. So, today I learned a better way to cook and serve it.

We’ve hit the jackpot with a number of really interesting inexpensive wines currently available at Costco and Sam’s so I’ll add to this blog as we taste through them.

The weather was brutally hot in Missouri but the winery cellars were cool and full of great wines made from Native and Hybrid grape varieties.

It’s time to start a new blog post on the exciting bargains we find during the holiday season and beyond.

It's almost that time of year.   Or, is it already here?!

Time to calibrate your Zinfandel palate!

Funny how you can read volumes on a subject but get most of your "ah ha" moments as a result of bad decisions. This was originally posted in June of 2017 but with the current popularity of Bourbon and Bourbon Barrel wines, I though it was a good idea to pull it out of the mothballs.

We love cheese and really had to start looking around to find what we wanted during covid. Let’s hope the tariffs don’t put another burden on cheese lovers.

How about a little love for Bourgeois

I love Michigan wine. Yet, I never really felt that even the best of our wines compared to the best in the world. I was wrong!

In spite of the rain, we enjoyed a bit of California sunshine in every glass of Chardonnay

We never get tired of Tucson. The golf is uniquely desert style, the food scene is farm to table, the wines are great and the weather in March and April couldn’t be better.

I’m such a chocolate nerd that one time when calling on Fortino’s in Grand Haven, I mistakenly purchased a large chunk of baking chocolate. Yes, I devoured it in minutes. CHOCOHOLIC ALERT!!

Can you belive it? I still have a few bottles of just about every wine I’ve ever made. I’m finding a few gems but mostly tired old wine. The purpose of a library is for learning, and as I taste these old wines, I am! Most of this was written in the summer of 2021 while unpacking after our move from Holland to Ann Arbor. There are many updates, as we re-taste the wines that did not end up in Scott and Ruth Walker’s vinegar culture.