Daily Updates on Everything Hot and Happening in Central Arkansas!
Posted in Wine on Jul 6th, 2010
Raise a Glass: Wine Picks of the Week July 6, 2010 We hope the Fourth was as much fun for you as it was for us. Both family and friends were here. Six adults, one baby, and two dogs. Fireworks sent the dogs into hiding, but the rest of us had a glorious time. We [...]
Posted in Wine on Jun 29th, 2010
Raise a Glass: Wine Picks of the Week June 29, 2010 This weekend we’ll have family and friends at our “Summer Palace,” (we temporarily renamed our place in the country as a result of a recent visit to St. Petersburg). It can get pretty humid here on the river, but the sense of peace and [...]
Posted in Wine on Jun 22nd, 2010
Raise a Glass: Wine Picks of the Week June 22, 2010 Even on the hottest day of summer (all right, we are aware that summer has only just officially begun) we sometimes long for a good bowl of pasta and meat sauce. Just last evening it was our spouse who asked, almost plaintively, “Couldn’t we [...]
Posted in Wine on Jun 15th, 2010
Raise a Glass: Wine Picks of the Week June 15, 2010 On a hot and muggy day, our favorite place to be is at the pool. Of course we don’t go there when the sun is high in the sky. We wait until later in the afternoon when we can join the grandchildren, just home [...]
Posted in Wine on Jun 8th, 2010
Raise a Glass: Wine Picks of the Week June 8, 2010 The lyric to that great aria from Porgy and Bess, “Summertime, and the living is easy…” has been floating through our head for the past few days. Perhaps it is because the temperatures have definitely been in the “summertime” range, though we don’t remember [...]
Posted in Wine on Jun 1st, 2010
< Raise a Glass: Wine Picks of the Week June 1, 2010 Ah, the day after Memorial Day; back to work and leftovers to deal with. Our Chicago kids were with us here on the river and, though we know they are vegetarians, we still grilled too much chicken. Perhaps, unconsciously, that is just what [...]
Posted in Wine on May 25th, 2010
Raise a Glass: Wine Picks of the Week May 25, 2010 The pool is open and that is the absolute favorite place in the world for our two active grandchildren. Sometimes we like to move summer supper to poolside where we can sip chilled wine and enjoy a light meal while the kids swim. With [...]
Posted in Wine on May 18th, 2010
Raise a Glass: Wine Picks of the Week May 18, 2010 Once upon a time, when we were young, Beef Stroganoff was the most elegant date meal we could imagine. We hadn’t thought about it for years, but our visit to St. Petersburg, that gorgeous city about 400 miles north of Moscow, reminded us not only [...]
Posted in Wine on May 11th, 2010
Raise a Glass: Wine Picks of the Week May 11, 2010 We’re headed for a visit with friends in Moscow (Russia, not Arkansas) and then on to St. Petersburg. There are any number of dishes of Russian origin that we like, and among those we like a lot is cold borscht made with beets fresh [...]
Posted in Wine on May 4th, 2010
Raise a Glass: Wine Picks of the Week May 4, 2010 With the weather so warm, we’ve been sitting in our courtyard more and more. It is a great place to sip wine and engage in deeply meaningful conversations with friends. We did this the other day with one of our younger friends as we [...]