let’s talk wine, shall we? it would be silly to deny my affection (yes, affection) for wine. hence, the website. before we get down to the business of the grape, let’s all make sure we’re on the same page. i love wine. i am picky about my wine, however. i love reds. i love big, heavy reds. i love them even more when they’re served in those big, globe-y red wine glasses where a typical wine pour only takes up the bottom inch of the glass and the rest is empty to allow the wine to open. as far as reds go for me, the bigger, the better. i love shiraz, tannats, syrahs, zinfandels. i also enjoy the lighter side of reds, like pinot noir. falling in the middle of the red scale is the cabernet sauvignon, and of course, my all time favorite, the chianti. i also occasionally like a glass of white wine. my top pick for white wine would be a sauvignon blanc, though typically i’ll default to a red. i AM a wine snob. i do not claim to have the end-all-wine-debates answer to any wine topic. i do claim to be an excessively picky wine drinker, and tend to favor wines that do not come in jug-sized bottles or bottles shaped like animals or shoes.
i promise to be open with my assessments of the wines i post about, if you promise to be open and try a few i recommend, and maybe some i recommend against! i also promise to try a few of your suggestions… who knows? maybe they’ll wind up here!
here’s to a long, wine-sharing adventure that brings stemmed glasses of purple (or white, if you choose!) to any open hand that accepts.
cheers!
i insist that we talk about this statement for a brief paragraph.
“rain does NOT equal hydrochloric acid.”
ponder this for a moment, please.
done pondering? ok. rain IS, however, water. it will make your car wet. it may make your hair frizzy. it might even make your mascara run. and you know what? i will laugh at 2 of these 3 “problems.” but i won’t hit you because of them.
back to the HCl thing. rain is NOT corrosive. it will NOT cause your car to dissolve at highway speeds. it will NOT melt your skin. it will NOT make you bald. but if you insist on going 30 mph in the fast lane on the biggest highway in the state of maryland because it’s raining? i. will. hit. you.
let’s discuss the whole rain-falling-down thing. it rains all the time all over the world. the rain thing? not a natural disaster. just nature being… nature. i assume pretty much everyone has taken a shower. showers are not scary, right? if the water from the shower makes you extra cautious to rinse and repeat, then i agree that you should drive extra cautiously as well. however, if like most americans, you take your shower in stride with the rest of your day, please, please, please consider rain the equivalent of just a really big shower, and drive with a little more common sense. otherwise, i consider you a threat. i understand that extra caution is required when a big metal machine moves on wet ground, but to drive 1/3 of the posted speed limit on a rainy day is dangerous to yourself and your fellow drivers. plus, it makes me angry, and that’s just ugly.
thanks for listening.
hello, friends!
i know it’s been a long time since i last visited. too long in fact. and for that, i offer my apologies to those who will accept.
please don’t misunderstand my absence for laziness or apathy. i’ve been busy. not the “i’m trying to avoid you” kind of busy… the kind of busy where i’m swirling through my life and i can’t seem to figure out which way is up and which way is the deadly bottom of the ocean. allow me to explain. to start, there’s my educational endeavor. i am currently maintaining a 4.0 as a chemistry major, of which i am obscenely proud and busting my booty to continue. with 9.5 month until graduation, i have become insanely addicted to the number 4.0. then, we have the issue of my employment. to help pay the bills (because, unfortunately, this adorable website just won’t shoot out money like an obsessively stocked atm) i work in a pharmacy making sure people don’t die. finally, i have been working on a secret little project which i am now happy to proclaim is public information. i am officially a published artist! and yes, i do paint. i am the proud artist of the cover of a book that is being published by Nousemoise Publishing. the book is called Each moment, only once by my brilliant author friend, David L. Young. the book is available now for pre-order, synopsis-viewing, and cover-ogling at Barnes and Noble’s website. the book will be available for holding and reading on june 1 of this year. because i am so generous, i’ve done all the work, and now all you have to do is look here: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Each-moment-only-Once/David-L-Young/e/9780982286654/?itm=1
so now maybe you’ll believe that i have indeed been busy. i’m back now, and you’ll be happy now i’ve been research delicious wines for you to try. more on that soon. maybe tonight?
cheers, loves!