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What the Hell is in the Water in Minnesota?

So, I tune into the Republican National Convention last night to see what a 44 year-old attractive, archconservative, gun-totin’, female Governor, with an infant son, a husband who wins snowmobile races and a teen daughter who is pregnant, a self-styled Hockey Mom, who believes global warming…

Paging John Feinstein

It has only been the last week that I realized that the world of wine has crossed the chasm and is in the midst of a radical transformation. Put another way, the convergence of wine and technology has crossed the 50-yard line and is moving the chains, first down, after first down. …

Vin de Napkin - The Week that Was

Take this as you will, but last week was longer than a year of snowy Sundays.  Happy to be moving on ...

On Glory Whores and Tom Wark Getting ‘Swift Boated’

"A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln In between Steve Heimoff, Tom Wark and dozens of commenters, there has been vigorous debate about the Rockaway wine program that I coordinated.  The stuff hit the fan at Steve Heimoff’s blog, but really exploded…

Who Moved the Damn Cheese?

So, this Rockaway wine blogging program has ignited some passion, er, some watercooler chatter.  I guess it is politics season, might as well debate the issues … just the same, reading the posts and the comments you’d think somebody

2005 Rockaway Cabernet

Imagine a chocolate covered black cherry fist enrobed in a velvet glove.  That begins to approximate the 2005 Rockaway Cabernet.  The thing that I really like about this wine is what it isn’t. * It isn’t overpriced, relative to allocated wines * It…

The Rockaway Wine Release Back-Story

Many readers of this blog may have noticed that there is an experiment underway in which Rodney Strong’s new allocated wine offering from their “winery within a winery” concept, Rockaway, is being introduced…