Summer weekends at home are a rarity. But, this Friday, I find that we don’t have any plans in particular. It turns out that if you are home on a summer weekend, one of your friends is bound to be coming home from vacation. A friend of ours who took a nice long 2-month sabbatical [...]
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Tag Archives: Pinot Noir
Friday, June 18, 2010
This Friday, I was in Freiburg, Germany. Freiburg is in the SouthWest corner of Germany at the foothills of the Black Forest. It sits on the Rhine River. Freiburg is in the heart of a major German wine growing region called Baden. Right across the river, conveniently enough, is the Alsace wine growing region of [...]
Friday, April 9, 2010
Vegas Baby, Vegas! I was out of bed at the obnoxious time of 4:00am on this Friday morning with a flight scheduled to depart from Newark airport at 7:00am for Las Vegas. Sin City. We flew Delta and, of course, we were raped for $25/bag to check luggage. I suppose that in the near [...]
Friday, February 26, 2009
LET IT SNOW! It isn’t often that Manhattan gets a snow storm that results in anything but slush on the streets but, this storm has managed to stick around long enough to dump a good solid foot of snow on city streets and sidewalks. People who commute from the outer boroughs or the suburbs didn’t [...]
Friday, October 23, 2009
I’m back in the USA and spending a relaxing Friday evening in Hoboken. Before I left for Puerto Vallarta, I ordered three bottles of wine from Torii Mor that was a special offer. Tonight, I am recounting my short-lived driving excursion that I attempted in Mexico as I am trying out one of these bottles. [...]
Friday, July 10, 2009
My habit of dry Friday’s continued this week – but with good reason. On Saturday, I rode from Manhattan (125th and Broadway) to Montauk. The total trip was about 125 miles. The weather turned out to be absolutely perfect for a long bike ride and sticking to water instead of wine on Friday night was [...]
Friday, January 2, 2009
The first Friday of the New Year! And what a great way to kick it off… a bottle of Pinot Noir from Torii Mor winery. I was at home dog sitting Connor – a friend’s Golden Retriever. Connor’s dad, John, was scheduled to pick him up and as John arrived, I let Connor out of [...]
