Category: Wine & Words
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Wine & Words: A Somm’s Guidebook
Welcome to the New Year! We are either excited and still proactively working on our resolutions, or we are among the “antiresolutionist.” Either way, if you are looking to get into wine and don’t know where to start – then here it is. Simply drink! Visit your local ‘packy’ and start buying the ten dollar…
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Wine and Words: “Memory, the Seamstress,” and Bubbly
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Virginia Woolf, Orlando, Chapter 2 Now, as readers we might be afraid of Virginia Woolf. Edward…
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Whiskey & Words: The Lion is Dead
“Wine & Words” has changed for this month. My apologies, to pair a wine with this specific biography would not do it justice. So, for this month it will be “Whiskey & Words.” Still a nice alliteration. A sensible play on words will journey us through the turn of the century. ‘What century?’ you ask.…
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Wine & Words: Bovary, Beaujolais, and Imperial Russia?
The books that are catching my attention recently have not been that of best sellers, nor of romance, or any nonfiction. The novels that are fulfilling my needs and feeding my desires are the classics. Classic literature is a funny genre, because is it a really a genre? Or a grouping of novels that people…
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Wine and Words: Funky, Fizzy & Fun
Sip back and relax while we journey through tempestuous tales of wacky wines and nefarious novels. Now, not all the books discussed will be nefarious, nor all wine will be wacky, but they all will be tempting. My name is Shannon B., a.k.a The Shan. I work in our IT department. I have a background…
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