Category: Wine & Words

• Wine & Words: Are you a Giggler?

  How to Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less SeriouslyBy Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo  Brat summer was so last year and this summer it is time to giggle. Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo are the OG gigglers. We first saw this dynamic duo from Bravo’s fascinating anthropological reality television show called Summer House. I…

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  July 28, 2025

  Book Reviews, Podcast, Recommendations, Trending, Wine & Words

  GigglySquad, Grenache, HamptonWater, HannahBerner, HowToGiggle, LoveYouBunches, PaigeDesorbo, Rosé, StolpmanVineyards, SummerHouse

• Wine & Words: Pour Local, Read Local

  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life  By Barbara Kingsolver  Throughout our existence, humans have created environments to fit our needs. We are the most adaptable species. In some ways, some may think that we mastered Mother Earth, they could not be more wrong. By creating an environment to fit our needs, we are…

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  July 14, 2025

  Book Reviews, Recommendations, Wine & Words

  AnimalVegetableMiracle, BarbaraKingsolver, Breweries, ConnecticutBeerTrail, ConnecticutPizzaTrail, ConnecticutWinePassport, ConnecticutWineTrail, CTBeerTrail, CTpizzatrail, CTWinePassport, CTWineTrail, DemonCopperhead, Pizza, ThePoisonwoodBible, Wineries

• Wine & Words: How do you like them apples?

  North Woods By Daniel Mason Winter has thawed and the warmth of spring has bloomed. The robin sings its melody while the sunrise glistens on the morning dew. The breeze rustles through the windows and the curtains dance to the tune of a new day. The trees are budding a fluorescent green and mother earth…

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  June 30, 2025

  Book Reviews, Recipes, Recommendations, Wine & Words

  AppleAperitif, Apples, DanielMason, Elderflower, ElderflowerLiqueur, ElmsfordNY, Neversink, NewEngland, NorthWoods, Recipe, Spring, summer

• Wine & Words: The Real Truth?

  In Cold Blood by Truman Capote There are many different readers throughout the world. There are people who are born readers. Then there are others who find reading, or sometimes reading finds them. It could be a book or an author that is the catalyst spinning them into a bibliophile. I was one of those…

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  June 16, 2025

  Book Reviews, Wine & Words

  Bibliophiles, ClutterFamily, FermeDeLaForet, Gamay, GamayNoir, InColdBlood, Murder, TrumanCapote, WineColor

• Wine & Words: Secrets of the Past

  Possession: A Romance By A.S. Byatt Writing is a form of expression. Be it a novel, a text message, or a blog post. The art of writing is constantly evolving. It changes to match the needs of people. This mode of expression is slipping into a wave of constant contact, through a text or even…

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  April 28, 2025

  Book Reviews, Recommendations, Wine & Words

  ASByatt, ItalianWine, Poets, PossessionARomance, RedWine, RossoDiTodi