It’s Brithday Week on my wine blog, celebrating five years by giving away a $50 Wine.com gift card. And, since it is a milestone, a wine review as a short story, complete wit[...]
14 Nov 2012
DART, which runs the area’s mass transit system, wants to sell the naming rights to its train stations and bus routes. It has paid a Cleveland company almost $100,000 to consult on[...]
13 Nov 2012
Saturday’s brief electricity outage in parts of East Dallas wasn’t as drastic as Katrina or what Sandy did to the northeast (though it did close the Aldi at Abrams and Northwest Hi[...]
12 Nov 2012
We can’t stop houses from burning down, and even Dallas’ Only Daily Newspaper has discovered that the police department has been cut to the bone during the budget crisis. But a com[...]
08 Nov 2012
Sometimes, one forgets old friends. Not intentionally, of course, but because of the press of business and the rush of life. There are new wines to try and more posts to write, and[...]
07 Nov 2012
This is not an old man cranky rant about how warm it has been lately, though I will note that we were 15 degrees above average through the first three days of the month and&#[...]
05 Nov 2012
I practically gushed about this wine during my recent chat with Robert Hall winemaker Don Brady, the native Texas turned top California winemaker. This is the kind of California wi[...]
31 Oct 2012
The holidays are the best wine time of the year, when even people who don’t drink wine figure it’s OK to have a glass or two. And, perhaps, if they enjoy that glass or two, they’ll[...]
25 Oct 2012
Last week’s discussion about the book “Grape-a-hol” made me wonder: Do I do enough to find $10 wine that doesn’t taste like grape juice with alcohol? Are th[...]
24 Oct 2012
The easy thing to do is to vote for the 2012 bond package, which will spend $641 million to repair streets, prevent flooding, and promote economic development in south Dallas. Thos[...]
23 Oct 2012
And it was surprisingly busy when I voted at St. Luke’s near Samuell Grand in East Dallas about 9:45 this morning. One election judge I talked to said she expected a light day, and[...]
22 Oct 2012
Chateau Ste. Michelle, the Washington state multi-national that does the 14 Hands, is on a roll. It placed four brands in the top 20 in a recent survey of best-selling $10 wines, o[...]
17 Oct 2012
