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With Fond Sediments

As one of Sonoma’s resident soothsayers, I’m always on the hunt for a means of prognosticating the future that is both germane to the local experience and vague enough to be projected upon in anyway one desires – something between a Rorschach inkblot and poorly drawn tarot card. I found it. My divining tool of [...]
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Hanna Winery and Vineyards

Your faithful lifestyle scribe penned the “Upfront” piece in the January-February edition of Tasting Panel Magazine. The profile of Hanna Winery and Vineyards president Chris Hanna is part of an issue-wide “Women in Wine” theme also featuring photos by Flash Lely. It was a delight to chat with Hanna who has enjoyed great success with [...]
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Hunter III Wines: Cabernet is King… And I’m the Fool

This is the first of a series of videos made in collaboration with Original Matters Media for Hunter III Wines. Fine time (finer wines). Kudos to director pal Raymond Scott Daigle for keeping Robert Hunter and I on task (we were having far too much fun).
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TweetUp at Broadway HQ

Social Media and Wine Aficionados – Let’s raise a glass to celebrate the recent discovery that the world’s supply of functional Twitter puns has finally run dry. Twee what I mean? Wired Sonoma invites you to a Tweetup, beginning at 5 p.m. today at the offices of ClickMarkets and DHowell Media Group, 538 Broadway, Suite B, Sonoma. Wine [...]
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Searching for Sonoma in a Merlot Desert

While many Sonomans donned togas and attempted to drown themselves in wine at the annual cultic revel now known as the Sonoma Wine Country Weekend, I was busy doing reconnaissance work in the other wine country. Not Napa, but the other, other wine country – the one a few hundred miles south in Santa Barbara [...]
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Governor Declares September “Wine Month,” Or, My Lunch with Arnie

So, Governor Schwarzenegger has declared September “California Wine Month” (again). Apparently, he’s never been to Sonoma where every month is “Wine Month,” which is comprised of “Wine Weeks” and “Wine Days,” and so on  – to hours, minutes and nanoseconds. What’s the duration of a “wine nanosecond?” About the amount of time it takes to realize [...]
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A Fairly Decent Jobbe

To ring in the 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference, the Sonoma County Tourism Bureau commissioned the comic, cheese-ball parody of Murphy Goode’s controversial “A Really Goode Job” campaign below. The quick flick premiered at the conference’s opening night and I’m  happy to report that it was well received (according to the several kind emails, tweets and [...]
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Inside Sonoma, Episode 8

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Left Bank: Lunch on the Gauche

If you ever want to get in the good graces of your editor, take him or her to lunch at the Larkspur’s convivial French brasserie, the Left Bank. Part of a chain also represented in Menlo Park, San Jose, Pleasant Hill and San Mateo, the restaurant is something of a gustatory homage to La Rive [...]
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Protected: Inside Sonoma, Episode 7

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