Ah, tomorrow is the turkey day and you shamefully put off buying wine. Continue reading “Last minute Thanksgiving”
Category: Seasonal Recommendations
Thanksgiving wines
Thanksgiving can be high anxiety wine time. Continue reading “Thanksgiving wines”
Labor Day
Labor Day weekend cometh. Even if autumnal equinox is more than two weeks away, the weekend is easy excuse for a last garden gathering or final shorts-and-flip-flops party before kids trek back to school and hazy-lazy-crazy days fade to memories. Continue reading “Labor Day”
Christmas mulled wine
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Bing Crosby ringing in your ears. Yuletide carols sung by a choir, folks dressed up like Eskimos—Christmas, season for loving nostalgia. Continue reading “Christmas mulled wine”
Thanksgiving
Thankfully, Thanksgiving is easiest of wine times. Continue reading “Thanksgiving”
Halloween
Halloween tempts you into cloyingly kitsch novelty wine plays. Trouble: clever names and campy labels often are inversely related to wine quality. Continue reading “Halloween”
Labor Day
Labor Day: bittersweet holiday. Summer’s wrath wanes. Kids back to school. Your baseball team drives for playoffs—or not. Football kicks off. Continue reading “Labor Day”
July 4th wine
Patriots patronize American wines on July 4th, but which should a proud patriot pour? Continue reading “July 4th wine”
Mexican food and wine
Cinco de Mayo is over, but Tex-Mex food is a fiesta year round. Continue reading “Mexican food and wine”
Easter
As Christian families gather to celebrate the empty tomb and Jewish families the passing over of the 10th plague in Egypt, they traditionally serve one of two dinners: a roasted ham or some cut of lamb. Continue reading “Easter”