Lulu by the Glass

Let's share a bottle.

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Do you remember how Mommy Dearest was about wire hangers? Well, that's how I am with box flaps. When I'm stocking wines, I will weather any number of the inevitable cardboard paper cuts in order to make sure the wines are easily visible and organized in flap-free cases...

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Summer Weave

Birds scattered the instant we set foot in the garden. The hazy light of early morning was warming to the idea of the day. Our hands, joined as they had been a month earlier in the cold, were knitted between us like a thick sweater. The unruly vines that lined the veranda still needed to be trimmed back; the weeds needed to be pulled from the path. It was chaos built on promise. Sex, and fruit, and fury, this garden. It was ours to tame. He had been raised in the bowels of an industrial city. I came from a sleepy afterthought of a town, apples and all. My musical background was honest folk tinged with occasional weather-driven hardship. His music, urban rock, was informed somewhat by the rough present and largely by the steely, blinking immediate future. Right now we listened to the silence broken by hungry birds and it suited us both.

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Tasting Ganevat wines with Raj

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When I stop to consider the fact that I am trying a wine older than even my own mother I get very emotional.

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Grandpa and grandchild... Cockburn's 1955 vintage port and current vintage, 2011... I love the history in one glass, and the promise in the other.

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Symington Family Estates vintage port tasting

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Austria: Let's Have Sekt

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Exploring Greek wine at Kokkari with Marios Belibassakis, Vice-Consul at the Greek Consulate.

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Kathryn Kennedy vertical at Arlequin

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Kathryn Kennedy vertical at Arlequin

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Discussing recent vintages of Mount Eden Chardonnay with winemaker Jeffrey Patterson... 2006 Chardonnay... Mount Eden Vineyard...

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Here's a hot tip: Moscatel poured over black sesame ice cream.

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Me: "You know, food trucks? They are colorful and mobile and tend to be hyper-focused on one food specialty. They congregate in one area as a caravan and create a sort of pop-up food court. That cream puff we got you was from the cream puff truck." Uncle Keith: "There is a truck for cream puffs??" Johan: "Yeah, there is a creme brulet guy, too." Uncle Keith: "You've got to be kidding! Is there a white Burgundy truck? That's what I would do."

Attempting to explain food trucks to my uncle

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Goodbye @perlissestatevineyards (at Top Of The Hill)

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#wine #kronosvineyard #selfie (at Corison Winery)

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Young grapes in the Kronos vineyard at Corison in Napa Valley

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Support my friend and co-worker, Stephen Satterfield, in this awesome wine project he helped start... Check it out!