Most of us turn to wine, if not as a vehicle of relaxation, at least as a gateway to it. If you’ve gone so far as to acquire the apéritif habit, the first glass of the day typically marks the moment you’ve set work aside and begun the slow evening unwind. Later, there may be…
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Five More Minutes with the Bunny
This Week in the Wine Corner: Good of you to take time to talk with us here in the Wine Corner, Easter Bunny. It’s been four years since our last chat with you. Quite a lot has happened since then, eh E.B? Pandemics, political turmoil, Space X. Who would have imagined? Easter Bunny: Sounds hare-raising. You’ll…
New Grapes on the Block
As a kid, your correspondent loved television, cars and newspapers. He grew up with four TV channels, three automakers, and two daily print papers. How very quaint and meager this all seems now. No amount of nostalgia can induce me to want to return to the limited horizons of those days. The world as I…
Them That Has Gets
We see that red pencil in your hand, censorious reader, poised to come down hard on some admittedly unorthodox grammar in this week’s headline. But let’s not be hasty, shall we? There’s a perfectly good reason why this age-old morsel of wisdom has come down to us in this rough and tumble form: It’s straight…