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Weekly Cellar Round-Up
Over the course of a week, I taste a bunch of wine, usually with friends, and almost always with my wife. Here are some of the wines we tasted over the past few weeks. These are wines that were not sent … Continue reading →
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Friday Rant: Cheap Wine and Unbreakable Rules
We start off today’s rant with an article published a year ago or so in TastingTable (side note: for whatever reason [cough], a lot of the articles with which I take umbrage come from this “fine” online source), entitled: “The … Continue reading →
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Musgo Wednesday: Patz & Hall Winery
As I have stated a few times in this space, I really enjoy cooking and I like to think that I have gradually become better at it (although, if you ask my two boys, I doubt they have taken any … Continue reading →
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Ohmygod–Part 11 On the Route to Tours
OK, I really mean it this time… For those long-term readers of this blog, you are no doubt familiar with Ohmygod, a client that I had for three weeks of bike trips in Europe. I started recounting this story way … Continue reading →
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Weekly Cellar Round-Up
Over the course of a week, I taste a bunch of wine, usually with friends, and almost always with my wife. Here are some of the wines we tasted over the past few weeks. These are wines that were not sent … Continue reading →
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Sundays Are For Sebastian, er Nathan (Revisited)
This weekend, I have been in Tucson, Arizona. As I am wont to do while traveling, I repost a previous iteration of Sundays Are For Sebastian. While this space is usually used to recount the utterances of our younger son, … Continue reading →
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Why I’m Over Social Media But Now Love Idle Cellars Wines
There was a time that I spent a ton of time on social media. I worked hard to get my Twitter followers to just shy of 100k and was in the process of doing the same with my Instagram account. … Continue reading →
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A Correction and an Addition
Over the past several weeks, I posted the results from the 10th Annual World’s Largest Blind Tasting of American True Rosé (if you have no idea what that means click HERE to get started). In the ten years that I … Continue reading →
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Ohmygod–Part 10 Just When I Thought I Had Seen It All
OK, I really mean it this time… For those long-term readers of this blog, you are no doubt familiar with Ohmygod, a client that I had for three weeks of bike trips in Europe. I started recounting this story way … Continue reading →
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Weekly Cellar Round-Up
Over the course of a week, I taste a bunch of wine, usually with friends, and almost always with my wife. Here are some of the wines we tasted over the past few weeks. These are wines that were not sent … Continue reading →
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The Top Twelve Rosés from the Tenth Annual World’s Largest Blind Tasting of American True Rosés
This is the last article about this year’s Annual Largest Blind Tasting of American True Rosés in the World and as I have done the past nine years, I thought I would end with some general impressions and this year’s … Continue reading →
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The Random Samples—7/9/2026
It is time for another edition of “Random Samples”–I occasionally get samples from marketing agencies and/or producers. These can often be grouped together into some sort of overarching theme: Muret-Gaston is French for Old Friends (not really, but it should … Continue reading →
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Ohmygod–Part 9 Sound and Light
OK, I really mean it this time… For those long-term readers of this blog, you are no doubt familiar with Ohmygod, a client that I had for three weeks of bike trips in Europe. I started recounting this story way … Continue reading →
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Weekly Cellar Round-Up
Over the course of a week, I taste a bunch of wine, usually with friends, and almost always with my wife. Here are some of the wines we tasted over the past few weeks. These are wines that were not sent … Continue reading →
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Sundays Are For Nathan #18
While this space is usually used to recount the utterances of our younger son, Sebastian, today the quip is from our older boy. Nathan now 23, who is 6’4″ (he claims 6’5″), recently earned his Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, … Continue reading →
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Traditional Wine Journalism Is Fading Away
More than a while ago, I started offering some thoughts on the state of wine writing today. In case you haven’t noticed, wine journalism/writing is in peril. Like the wine industry in general, the wine writing world is in a … Continue reading →
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Kirkland Wine Reviews: Value Red Wines from Costco
This is the last (at least for now) in a series of articles reviewing the Kirkland wines from Costco. Previously, I reviewed the sparkling and the white wines available at my local Costco here in Houston, and today I publish … Continue reading →
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Ohmygod–Part 8 Dinner
OK, I really mean it this time… For those long-term readers of this blog, you are no doubt familiar with Ohmygod, a client that I had for three weeks of bike trips in Europe. I started recounting this story way … Continue reading →
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What We Were Drinking in Korea (More of the Good Stuff)
For anyone who has read a few posts here on this blog, it is not news that my wife is Korean-American. Both of her parents were born in Korea, and they met after they both came to the U.S. to … Continue reading →
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A Family Journey to Korea: Discovering The Mother Land
As many of you may know, my wife is Korean-American; she was born in the U.S. to two immigrants from Korea who both came here in there young-adulthood as their parents fled the Korean peninsula for reasons associated with that … Continue reading →
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The Tenth Annual Largest Blind Tasting of American True Rosés–Flights 12-13
A few of weeks ago, I invited a few writers here in Houston to my house for what I believe to be the largest blind tasting of American True Rosés of the year. What is a “True Rosé”? Well, there … Continue reading →
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Ohmygod–Part 7 Do We Have to Eat?
OK, I really mean it this time… For those long-term readers of this blog, you are no doubt familiar with Ohmygod, a client that I had for three weeks of bike trips in Europe. I started recounting this story way … Continue reading →
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What We Were Drinking in Korea (The Good Stuff)
For anyone who has read a few posts here on this blog, it is not news that my wife is Korean-American. Both of her parents were born in Korea, and they met after they both came to the U.S. to … Continue reading →
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Sundays Are For Nathan and Sebastian—Happy Father’s Day, 2026
Several years ago, when I was working at a job that was not particularly fulfilling for a boss who was excruciatingly horrible at managing people, we had an office “retreat.” It was clear from the first minute that her boss required … Continue reading →