Category: Seasonal Recommendations

By Gus Clemens

Friday we celebrate Halloween, first of three year-end harvest festivals. Continue reading “Halloween 2014” →

Labor Day falls this year on the first day of September. It can’t get any earlier, which means it won’t be fall for three weeks and we will experience the longest, most summery Labor Day possible. Continue reading “Labor Day 2014” →

Summertime and the living is easy. It also is really hot. What is a wine drinker to do? Continue reading “Summer time” →

Fourth of July wine suggestions are fraught with patriotic paradoxes. Continue reading “July Fourth” →

Wine-inspired gifts for Father’s Day tempt you to gather gimmicks destined for the “God only knows what it’s for” drawer. Please, resist that seduction. Continue reading “Father’s Day” →

Mother’s Day wine columns grow more difficult each year. Lilting riffs about sweet, fruity libations because “little woman” isn’t into real wine are so baroquely foolish you venture there today only in parody. Continue reading “Mother’s Day” →

This is the week the IRS has made. Continue reading “IRS deadline wines” →

From vineyard to glass, wine is romance. A perfect Valentine’s Day fit. Continue reading “Valentine’s Day” →

It is rodeo time in Texas with three of nation’s biggest shows bustin’ out of the chutes in coming weeks: San Antonio, San Angelo, Houston. Continue reading “Rodeo and wine” →

If you are reading this, you survived New Year’s Eve. Well played, fellow wine swashbuckler. Continue reading “New Years” →