Recent Posts Tagged With 'Wine'

• It Begins with the grapes

  Posted on Sunday October 4th, 2009 at 12:13 in Wine, winemaking

  Thursday afternoon, I drove to Woburn Massachusetts to pick up my 10 cases of Barbera grapes from Beer-Wine Hobby. I don’t really know how the prices of grapes compare to picking them straight from the produce markets in Chelsea, but I can say ...

• What I know TODAY about making wine…

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 14:01 in Wine, my father

  1. There is a fine line between grapes rotting and wine. 2. There is a fine line between the science of wine-making and the art of wine-making. 3. There is a fine line between assisting someone with making wine and truly understanding the wine-making...

• Good company is more important than good wine.

  Posted on Friday May 23rd, 2008 at 01:00 in dad, Wine, als, my father, grapes, donato, macmurray ranch pinot noir

  I raced home from work tonight. It just might be the first night where I don’t have to drive someone to baseball practice or karate or the myriad other events that normally dot our evening. Work has been leaving me numb lately and it is all I c...

• Listening to me wine

  Posted on Tuesday April 8th, 2008 at 19:38 in Wine, my father

  My father made his own wine every year since he came to this country from Italy. To him, his wine was the only wine that mattered. He scoffed at people that spend money at the wine shops, let alone spend 50 dollars or even much more for a bottle. My ...