Wine Nerd (in progress)

It's the time of year that lends itself to rosé wine and minimal cooking. I spent a good portion of an early evening over the weekend tasting and making notes about the wines I have selected for a virtual rosé tasting I'm hosting in two weeks. Plus, temperatures have been soaring, so if it hasn't… Continue reading La Vie en rosé →

Sometime in the past 7ish months I started referring to this as “The Great Panini” rather than a pandemic. It was a purposeful change to help get out from under the mental weight that comes with the word pandemic, and it actually helped a bit. I could talk about the choices we were making and… Continue reading Panini and Wine →

Fast forward a bit, we stash our 1st wine collection in the basements of friends for our return to Germany as civilians. We joined Erich’s “wandering wine Stammtisch,” the Schnudedunkers, and get back to exploring the food and wine around Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Heidelberg in Germany. We become regulars at restaurants we will never… Continue reading Wine Beginnings – Part 3 →

Right around the time of that disastrous Zinfandel experience, I married my husband, Roman. He had joined the Army in January 2001, and after training, was stationed in Germany. I finished up one more contract at APT and then got to join him in Wiesbaden, Germany. Just before our 1st wedding anniversary, Roman deployed to… Continue reading Wine Beginnings – Part 2 →

One evening shortly before my 21st birthday, a Minnesota friend looked at me and said, “You’re going to be a wine person.” I laughed at the time, thinking that sounded ridiculous, but the comment stayed with me. I did drink some wine that year, typically Boone’s Farm Sangria, but mostly I finally indulged in the… Continue reading Wine Beginnings – Part 1 →