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Wine Tasting: New Mexico!
Enjoyed in Roswell, NM - can you tell?!? In our continuing mission to find good wines outside of California, we finally found some in an unexpected place - New Mexico! Considering the whole state is at mid- to high elevation and it’s fairly dry, we were quite surprised. We tasted wines in the Santa Fe/Taos area and in the Roswell area and learned that both sets of wineries grew some of their grapes locally, but a lot of it was also sourced from Demming, a town in the south w
Dec 30, 2025


Wine Tasting: Long Island - North Fork
(For an intro on my rating scale/context on our taste profile, see this post) Overall grade: B Summary: Our visit to this wine region...
Nov 23, 2024


Wine Tasting: Vermont’s Lake Champlain Region
(For an intro on my rating scale/context on our taste profile, see this post) Overall grade: C Summary: The Lake Champlain region is...
Nov 20, 2024


Intro: My Wine Tasting Reviews
As I’ve mentioned a couple times, one of the activities I’m looking forward to in retirement is wine tasting outside of California. And...
Nov 20, 2024


Busting the Merlot Myth
Every year, a bunch of my college friends get together over Labor Day weekend as a sort of reunion, catch up, opportunity to play board...
Sep 4, 2024


NAPA!
This will probably be my last pre-post-employment adventure post! Coming soon ~ new adventures! As mentioned on the In Vino Veritas...
Jul 29, 2024


Split, Croatia - Waaaay prettier than we expected
This is another throwback post to tide us over until the post-employment adventures begin. In 2010 we went on a Mediterranean cruise...
Jul 26, 2024
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