i ran into a wonderful book of poetry by one of my favorite spanish poets-the chilean pablo neruda last weekend. a friend of mine then sent me a link to oda al vino, one of neruda’s many wonderful pieces. here it is…and my (ROUGH) translation. this piece is particularly phenomenal. ODA AL VINO. VINO color de día | […]

vivacious vine’s solution to a long week? thursday tastings. a morning of intermediate homework. three hours worth of pension accounting (deferred taxes last week). next step in that glorious progression of the afternoon? free tastings, of course. since i didn’t get a chance to post about last weeks tastings, this week you’ll be getting a […]

this week, i’m featuring a blog from two of my favorite people. i take part of the credit for getting my parents to love wine. but they’ve take it upon themselves to continue to love wine. this weekend they did a wine tour along the “great river road wine trail”. here’s what they had to […]