Words and Wild Spaces

Happy Earth Day! The ocean gives us everything. May we strive to be better stewards than we were last year. I love it when one of the best w...

Welcome back. I hope your Spring is going well so far. Seems like there’s a “day” for everything these days: Donut Day; National Sibling Day...

Chablis has long been one of my favorite wines. As a lover of all things oceanic, I feel for these wines when I discovered them as a young 2...

The Applegate Valley in Southern Oregon seems like a wonderful place. A traditional orchard fruit growing zone with a long winemaking histor...

Remote Shenandoah beauty. Virginia is on my mind this week. I had a great solo winter hike and scramble in Shenandoah National Park, and I r...

These days, it seems everything costs more. In the wine world, so many producers I once bought and loved have gotten too expensive for me. F...