A first visit to Catelli’s is but the first of many reviews to show up on a new blog/site that Lisa Yee & I are co-authoring. Going off a love of food & wine we decided to show how easy it is to pair wine with different food. Tasti-Pairings is the work of joy of [...]
Another reason to ditch Windows… After a year and a half of fighting Vista on my Toshiba A135-S2276 I gave up. Quite simply I got sick of the problems, errors, lock ups, “security” pop-ups and general sluggishness. So to sort of future proof me, also since I figured it was easier, I bought a new [...]
Last month, our fair city became the 44th (give or take) to be included in one of Google’s more ingenious offerings – the Street View. [sacbee.com] I was reading my paper at lunch like I normally do and I ran across that article. The intersting part about it, was about a month ago I noticed [...]
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You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Frank Zappa [via Quotes] Mind I’m sure there are a few dry countries that will argue this [...]
I blog occasionally at A little bit of vino… rating random bottles of wine I’ve been given or can afford to buy. And so it was with interest I ran across a post in which a number of $12 wines where reviewed. Below is an excerpt… I strongly suggest you read the whole well written [...]
A MAKE Magazine contributor Colin Berry did a radio piece last week about how a school in Santa Rosa, CA is training dogs to identify vineyard insect pests by scenting their sex pheremones. A very different kind of environmental damage is found each year in California Wine Country. The damage doesn’t come from fire, but [...]
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[...] The Coonawarra was one of my first good bottles of Australian wine. And I wanted us to do it by the book. Well, since I have yet to take a class, or really read a book about wine drinking I first smelled the cork. I usually can tell a lot about the wine from [...]
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Well I’ve been told many times that I should diversify and start or also submit to another blog. Well I finally took that advice and and started a blog concerning nothing more then the different wines I drink. The name of the blog Whino.info should be appropriate don’t you think? Well in my wandering I [...]
I love Stumbleupon for the wide variety of sites that I’m led too. But also because those same people suggesting a wide variety of sites, sometimes use Stumbleupon to create photo galleries, area for poems, and every once in a while history narratives. Below is on of these write ups, the English is a little [...]
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Forbes did a wonderful write up about a few of the family owned Napa vintners. Focusing on the ones you can easily buy wine from, and are still small. There a re a number of names missing from the list but these overviews give you a good idea on the makeup of some of the [...]
