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Finger Lakes – #WBC15

During the third week of August almost 300 wine bloggers from around the U.S. converged on the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York (what NYC’ers call anything north of the city). They were there for the eighth annual Wine Bloggers Conference. They experienced and learned what I have already known about this gem of the eastern U.S. wine world. The best way to describe it is to say that…

Every wine book and wine study course introduces two wines when discussing the Finger Lakes region (FLX) of New York, Riesling and Cabernet Franc. The climate of FLX is ideally suited for these two cool weather, acidic grapes. But the small production wineries, now numbering close to 400, that dot the three lakes of this region (Seneca, Cayuga and Keuka) are producing wines from a number of grape…

#WBC15: Hotel California Remix

Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before “Relax, ” said the night man, “We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!”    ~Hotel California; written by Don Henley, Glenn Lewis Frey and Don Felder Travel woes plagued many of us who attended this years Wine Bloggers Conference.  Whether…

Karen MacNeil, author of The Wine Bible, was the keynote speaker at the Wine Bloggers Conference in Corning, NY this past week-end. She is an inspiring speaker and had some very thoughtful advice for all of us bloggers in attendance. One thing she advised was that in order to improve our wine descriptions we had to think about what the wine is really like, and avoid comparing it to other wines.…

Lakewood Vineyards Wines; a Lesson in Parenting

Six weeks into raising her infant, I heard a woman describe the work of caring for her child as ‘drudgery.’ I couldn’t disagree with her. Caring for an infant is a lot of repetitive, sleepless, gritty work. And it doesn’t stop with infancy. The work that goes into raising a teenager is far short of glamorous. The dance recitals are wonderful, but the time spent driving back and forth to lessons…