I’ve enjoyed 23 wedding anniversaries with the Wine Goddess, and most often we’ve planned an elaborate trip to a special place where we can celebrate. For the first five years of our marriage we’d schedule an off-season trip to the same Dennisport seaside hotel on the Cape. The late-September weather was beautiful for sitting on […]
Month: September 2014
Sam's picks highlight Saturday wine event
What do the best wine directors drink when they go home from work? Saturday, Sept. 21 you’ll get your chance to find out at the Wine Connextion when Sam Messina reveals his eight favorites during a tasting event at the North Andover store on Main Street. Sam is one of the most knowledgeable wine directors […]
Fall feast: Pairing the perfect book and wine
The Barnes and Noble package arrived the other day containing the four books I’ve selected for my fall reading schedule. I’ll enjoy them while sitting next to the fire, in the pergola, under the stars, on cool autumn nights. My al fresco reading will be complemented by sipping a glass of full-bodied red wine, a […]
Five wines that deliver a late-summer kick
Here are wines I’ve sampled recently which represent high quality and values. • 2011 Healdsburg Ranches Sonoma County “Unoaked” Chardonnay, $9.99 — It’s nice to taste the chilled minerality and fresh fruit without big, buttery oakiness, and this wine offers great sipping for this price. Clean grapefruit, apple and pear settle in nicely on the […]
Like wine, daylilies are worth savoring
It’s a bit sad when the last bloom of the Wine Goddess’s garden of daylilies desiccates like a raisin, surrenders its summer grip from its stem, and returns to the earth from which it sprang. Autumn is here. The life of a lily’s glorious bloom is but one day, hence the name daylily. The plant […]
