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Joel | March 25, 2011
Nusserhof Tyroldego 2006
Nearly forty years have found their way by me since I walked with my dog Storm through the forests surrounding my boyhood home in New England.
Warm days of skunk cabbage, lady slippers and princess pine, watching the ground for specimens to add to my pine cone collection, hands all pine pitch and never [...]
Joel | May 12, 2010
Kofererhof Kerner 2008, DOC
A Volvo blows by me, an Audi following inches behind. I downshift and pull the performance-tuned GTI in behind them. Over Sirius radio, musician Sting reminds me of how Fragile we are and the Massachusetts Turnpike opens up wide out in front of me. The leather covered stick shift [...]
Joel | April 16, 2010
Cantina Terlan Alto Adige Pinot Grigio 2008, DOC
Tonight, my wife caught me with my hands all over Fiona. That’s what we call our refrigerator. Fiona Frigidaire, actually. At that point, there was no turning back: we had to make it a threesome.
At first, it was all hands and lots of clumsy [...]
Joel | October 23, 2009
A moon and a sun inhabit our home. One is called Italy, the other called China. Which is which, you may ask? They take turns playing moon and sun, balancing momentum and gravity, constantly in need of the other’s orbit.
When I first mentioned to my Italian mother that I was thinking of [...]