November 4, 2008
Sepi (aka Jon Sublet) and Amira got engaged!!! To celebrate this momentous occasion, we popped open a special bottle of Juve y Camps cava that Marc brought back for me from Barcelona. So awesome of him! I had been saving it for a special moment, and this was IT.
September 22, 2008
Picked up a bottle, er, a BOX of Bandit Pinot Grigio last weekend at LeNell’s in Red Hook. This stuff rocks!!! It was $10 and totally decent wine… in a Tetra Pak!
July 24, 2008
I’m noticing way too much asian-ness on this blog right now, so I’m gonna mix it up a little bit. Gotta keep it culturally diverse. (Insert sarcastic face here).
Fumiko just got back from a jaunt in Barcelona- she has a nice Mediterranean glow and is speaking in funky JaSpanGlish with a weird Catalan accent. Oy.
She brought me back, what else,
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July 13, 2008
I was having trouble deciding on a wine and just as I started to get frustrated, I was struck by Basket Case’s lighthearted, cute label that proclaims “everybody [is] just a little bit crazy” and “wine is about fun.” I’m
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July 9, 2008
Hard to believe that in my little hometown of Cupertino, CA, there is a world renowned winery tucked deep into the hillside. Cupertino is a part of the Silicon Valley- it’s where you can find 1 Infinite Loop aka
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June 27, 2008
My friend Stephen is a professional gardener at the Conservatory Garden in Central Park and he invited me to a sweet little soiree they were having on Wednesday. If you haven’t been, it’s a spectacular garden on 105th Street
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June 26, 2008
This week I went to a champagne reception at Adour Alain Ducasse, the 6 month old restaurant inside the St. Regis Hotel in NYC. I was there taking pictures of a reception for supporters of the James
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It’s been a while, but I have to do Kayoko a solid and keep up with the wine reviews. Sooooo, tonight i’m writing about a wine simply called Carro, which is produced in Yecla, a city in
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June 13, 2008
In the spirit of missing Kanitra, I’m continuing her column w(h)ine-o. I’m not qualified to talk about wine the way she does, but I can at least show you pictures of what I’m drinking these days.
When it’s hot out, you gotta go for the pink stuff. There seems to be a myriad of terms used for this genre of wine,
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May 13, 2008
Just got in really late last night from a weekend in Cali. Surprised my mama for mom’s day! I scored big points with that one- I expect that to override anything that would be considered bad daughter behavior for the next few years.
I’m really exhausted and I’ve got a busy day ahead of me, so bear with me- here’s
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