Category: Wine & Words

• Wine & Words: What to Read, What to Drink, and AI?

  There have been many times when I have started a blog post and I was unclear on my next read. Eventually, something, or someone, sparks an inspiration for reading. Well, sometimes that inspiration just does not come. Sometimes we are not meant to read. Or we pick a new book up and, about twenty pages…

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  November 3, 2025

  AI, Book Reviews, Recommendations, Technology, Trending, Wine & Words

  AI, ArtificialIntelligence, ChatGPT, Pairing, ReadingTips, Wine

• Wine & Words: What is Considered Timeless?

  The Frederica Quartet by A.S. Byatt A well written novel is timeless. An author who can produce a novel of excellence is also timeless. Their use of language is almost like a drug, each time you read a piece of their writing you ascend into a state of euphoria. You escape into another realm of…

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  September 8, 2025

  Recommendations, Wine & Words

  AnthonySmithBooks, ASByatt, BabelTower, BerryPicking, BrontëSisters, BronteSisters, CambridgeUniversity, DHLawrence, FredericaQuartet, GeorgeEliot, LabruscaRosa, Lambrusco, LiniLambrusco, MarciaBates, PossessionARomance, Shakespeare, StillLife, TheGuardian, TheQuartet, TheVirginInTheGarden, WhistlingWoman

• 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