Category Archives: Cab/Merlot

Napa Cellars Wines: Generically Delicious!

I know, bubeleh; I know.  After earning your MBA from the Carnegie Mellon School of Business and your Ph.D from MIT, after a brief teaching stint at Stanford Graduate School (for which you wrote three textbooks on macroeconomics) and your subsequent … Continue reading

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Rutherford Dust Never Sleeps

‘Dust you are, and to dust shall you return.’  – Genesis 3:19 Open letter to God:  In the meantime, can we borrow some to make Rutherford cabernet? And although Robert Mondavi and Louis Martini might disagree (in spirit, of course, since … Continue reading

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Villa Maria Estate, Hawke’s Bay: Croatian Knights and Warrior Princesses

Grotty media cynics may claim that Lucy Lawless is New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, but in fact, in 1931, a monster earthquake (Richter 7.8) hit Hawke’s Bay, wiping Napier—the region’s commercial nexus—off the map.  The death toll was in the … Continue reading

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Michigan Meritage Merits Mention

The term ‘meritage’? Not. First, if you’re going to invent a word, why make it one you have to teach everyone how to pronounce?  Second, if you’re going to combine two words to make a third, why use two words … Continue reading

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Wine Writer Sends Woodson To The Woodshed,Or Is It The Other Way Around?

What can I tell you about Charles Woodson that you don’t already know? That in 1997 he joined Tom Harmon and Desmond Howard as the third U of M  player to win a Heisman Trophy, receiving more points that year … Continue reading

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