Please The Palate

Sitting at my desk day after day does a number on my back. No matter how much exercise or stretching I do, if I sit...

05 June, 2021

Like the majority of people, travel stopped for me in March 2020. Since my flight home to Los Angeles from Washington, DC on February 23,...

22 May, 2021

I don't think I have ever taken a trip to a wine region and not come home with wine. I try to find bubble wrap...

15 May, 2021

We are all itching to travel, to get out of our houses and go somewhere new. But we also have to be safe and smart...

13 February, 2021

Itching to get out of the house? While your holiday travel plans may have been thwarted, you may still want to travel. But if you...

22 December, 2020

Happy July 2020! 2020 has definitely not turned out the way most of us expected. We are now in our fifth month of the Covid-19 pandemic....

02 July, 2020

As business slowly start to reopen, wineries have eagerly been waiting to reopen. Some were able to start over the last few weeks and the...

11 June, 2020

I always find it fun to try a new wine, especially when it is from a grape that I am not familiar with. Last week,...

02 June, 2020

Do you have a favorite wine region? Is it where you took your first wine trip or is it where you celebrated a special event?...

26 May, 2020

Spring is finally here and yet our lives have changed so much in the last month. As I write my quarterly newsletter, we have been...

09 April, 2020