(Above and) Beyond the Grape

Sniff, it's so pretty I just keep breaking into tears

I've been promising that I'd visit the new digs for Beyond the Grape for months now, and last Friday I finally made it. It was worth the wait, because the new location is a knockout.

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Off With His Neck

I wanted a haircut, not a shave!

No, it's nothing so gruesome as a head-ectomy. I was going through my pictures this morning and came across a sequence from Portugal. I was there last Spring, studying the wine and cork production. One of the funnest things I got to do while there was to participate in a Port decanting ceremony at the Vintage House in Pinhao, at the upper end of the Douro river.

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Winemaker Magazine Conference

Waiter! There's a fly in my Sauvignon!

It was quite the weekend in Napa. Winemaker Magazine hosted their second annual conference on the 15th and 16th of May. Since I'm a columnist and feature writer for them I got the invite to be a speaker as well. This year I thought I'd do two seminars, one on troubleshooting wine kits and another on a larger topic.

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Napa Winemaker Conference

On the patio at Domaine Carneros, working diligently . . .

Yee-haw! After a year of conferences crammed into two months of work in only 21 days (math was never my strong suit, but my geometry is good enough for me to describe hyperbole) I'm home and resting comfortably. Last stop was a stint in the stupendously gorgeous Napa Valley, for the Winemaker Magazine 2009 conference.

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Raspberry Space Pirates

But why has all the rum gone? White Rock Willie gets his raspberry on

What on earth do delectable raspberries and my ruthless, rum-swilling neighbour, White Rock Willie have in common with the Final Frontier? Well, as it turns out, Outer Space Smells of Rum and Tastes of Raspberries. According to the UK Guardian

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Now You See Him

SR-6, Nevada. Photo by Dave Becker

I've been a long time gone, and what a month this last week has been.

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