Wino Update

Wino Update

We’ll start this week off with a little bit of a rant about snobbery, specifically my wine snobbery. The past few days we stayed with Mary, a family friend of Paul’s, in Lake Havasu City, AZ. (Her husband, Mike, was elk hunting in New Mexico.) 

Mission: Good, Cheap Wine

Mission: Good, Cheap Wine

I like wine…good, expensive wine. I am a little bit of a wine snob. So now that we’re on a strict budget, I’ve made it my mission to find decent, cheap wine that is palatable to this little snob. Because we don’t have reliable refrigeration 

Oh No! We Forgot About Beaujolais Nouveau!

Oh No! We Forgot About Beaujolais Nouveau!

Somehow it happened: the third Thursday of November passed us by and we didn’t remember Beaujolais Nouveau. To paraphrase our friend Ben: this never would have happened if we were in Chicago! To placate the French gods, we had a bottle last night along with