Our Weekend Wine for this week, Curtis Ambassador’s Vineyard Syrah 2004, hails from California’s Santa Ynez Valley, right near Santa Barbara.  
The Curtis Syrah is yet another one of those wines that almost makes you forget that you’re drinking a beverage made from grapes.  It had exotic scents of prune and spice (maybe cinnamon gum right out of the wrapper?), and flavors of black pepper, […]

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On Sunday, we visited a winery in the Stag’s Leap district of Napa whose Cabernets were out of this world — we’re talking layers and layers of interesting scents, including coffee, tobacco, chocolate, caramel, smoke, and molasses.  The catch was, of course, a hugely steep price tag, which meant that we would return home empty-handed. 
On the bright […]

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We’ve been traveling in the Northeast for the past few days to spend time with family, and due to all of the flying and driving, we are surely wiped.  Fortunately, we will be staying with my folks for the next couple of days, which to our minds means only one thing: party time!  While they […]

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Two weeks ago, a couple of old friends from our New York days, whom we met on vacation in Argentina but haven’t seen since we left NYC, dropped by our place in San Francisco to say hello.  It had been almost exactly three years since we had first met at our charming little bed and breakfast in Buenos Aires and, later that week, shared delicious, […]

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