Taking a page from the Romans in Pompeii…
A decade or so after focusing on French wine, I decided to take a deep plunge into Rieslings…
Many years ago, driving through the Loire Valley, I was astonished at how many gorgeous buildings seem to appear out of nowhere…
A powerful essay about the quest for identity, shortlisted by Adelaide Press.
Château Musar…a Middle Eastern wine made in a region that has been producing wine since classical times, one that has become the obsession of sommeliers and professionals around the globe, people whose eyes light up when you mention the wine, happy to wax poetic about the wine and why it’s so special.
How I began my journey into the world of wine…
It’s just so easy to fall off the wagon, isn’t it? Honestly, if I had a dollar for every time I decided to develop a healthy habit and stick to it, I would probably have a savings account, or a tidy little IRA. But I don’t. Like most people, I tend to make resolutions around…
Mistakes…I’ve made plenty. But even after making so many, it annoys me to no end when I do. Annoyance forces me into rumination which in turn leads to anger and anger turns into self-flagellation. Now, it is a given that not everyone reacts as vehemently as I probably do, but by and large, people really…
Confined indoors over the past few months, I realized, like so many others, that I had all this extra time. Besides binging on Netflix, cooking new dishes and drinking copious amount of wine I had the time to catch up with old friends…some of whom I hadn’t spoken to for a few months, some a…
Does luck really exist? And if it does, is it necessarily good or bad? Isn’t life more about what you make of it? Improvising, adapting to circumstances, knowing how to dance around misfortune, rising to the occasion or sitting still? After all, isn’t good or bad luck something viewed through a personal prism? The number…