“Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway…”

by Katie Gomez August 8, 2011
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There’s nothing quite like a road trip. No matter how much quicker it is to get somewhere on an airplane or how unique it is to travel by train or ship, nothing compares to the experience of throwing half a house of shit into a car trunk, filling the tank of gas as the first […]

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“Well I’ve never been to Spain, but I kinda like the music…”

by Katie Gomez August 3, 2011
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Given my readership, I’d certainly hope that I’m preaching to the converted at this point, but if I go around assuming a reader already sings the song I’m trying to teach them I wouldn’t ever bother writing, would I? A while back I had a contest to win a free sample of wine and the […]

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: “Teacher, there are things that I still have to learn…”

by Katie Gomez July 27, 2011
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“ ’Cause sometimes salvation, in the eye of the storm…”

by Katie Gomez July 19, 2011
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Call it a revolution. Call it a pendulum swing. Hell, call it karmic retribution for all I care. Just know that change is afoot in California winemaking, and the harbingers of that revolution…that swing…that retribution, are growing quickly in numbers. For a long, long time I have been bitching incessantly about the wines coming out […]

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“Barbecue lifts my spirit, I swear that it never fails…”

by Katie Gomez July 8, 2011
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So I recently received an email to let me know that some dude named Chef Ted Reader (apparently “celebrity Chef Ted” though I’ve never heard of him) has pissed away valuable time that he’ll never get back in this lifetime, developing a list of “tips for good backyard BBQ party etiquette that if followed, will […]

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“A little bit of this, a little bit of that…”

by Katie Gomez July 2, 2011
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“The heat was on, rising to the top…” Heat Heads are a unique breed of people, part adrenaline junkies and part masochists. Visit one of their pot luck parties and you’re likely to be entertained by someone eating a cookie and sweating like Anthony Weiner at a press conference. But what I love most about […]

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“Sleeping with a full moon blanket, sand and feathers for my head…”

by Katie Gomez June 23, 2011
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As long as Spain’s winemaking history is, its organic winemaking history is shorter than my own—the first certified organic vines weren’t even planted until 1979. But in the last two years, the crop surface area dedicated to organic vineyards has increased three-fold, and given the growing demand for both Iberian wines and for organic wines, […]

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“I am whatever you say I am, if I wasn’t then why would I say I am…”

by Katie Gomez June 16, 2011
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Their bottle-neck dangler screams “Canada” at all points, and pushes the idea of “microbrewery” with every turn of phrase. Wherever you look on the bottle, the words “Nova Scotia” seem to appear. If you are privy to the press release (which the average consumer wouldn’t come across) you’ll stumble on the fact that, although it’s […]

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…”

by Katie Gomez June 15, 2011
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“Under my skin there’s always a catch…”

by Katie Gomez June 10, 2011
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Rioja is tempranillo. Tempranillo is Rioja. And when you say “Rioja” to a wine drinker, you can pretty much bank on the fact that they’re thinking red wine—it’s what the region is known for, and what the tempranillo grape creates. But it only takes one nosy winemaker to throw a wrench into everything that glues […]

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