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 …