Feel the Rage is the new blog site I am using to post all of my novel, Catch of the Day. I am posting a couple-three chapters at a time. The first two chapters are already up, and the last...

There was a fairly portentous song by Fastball, which came out in the 90s. It was called The Way, and it captures my mood -- my lazy, slacking, feckless, irresponsible mood -- as I've gone back to work and left...

As you may recall, last month (was it only last month? It feels like a mythic time...) -- Last month we went to Le Fonti, Chianti, and tasted the delicious wines and olive oil of the Caciorgna-Bernini team. Along with...

Following on from the previous post about interesting search terms, I’ve been seeing some other strange/interesting ones appear lately.Some selected odd ones over the past month or so; anthony bourdain gay? - Thanks to Ed saying that this was the most interesting search term that he received ... . WHAT POISON DO - This one has me slightly concerned but I hope they found some good advice...

... associate with would be in jail right about now. Yet, last week I received the first threat of legal ... emails sent between me and the winery, thanks to him for taking up the issue in the hope that those ... threat, indicating that I would not remove the review, I received another email telling me ... and desire to publish, nobody wants to open the paper and read about three bad wines - so in general...

There has been some news recently about two $2AUD ($1.50USD) cleanskin wines being offered by Dan Murphy’s, who are owned by a major supermarket chain here in Australia. I decided to see what ... and brought me the glasses. The $15 wine was purchased last year and is a 2001 Cabernet Merlot from ... if you don’t want to think about it. I am sure that this is the cleanskin and I’ve had worse wines...

In the voluminous amount of words that are dedicated to the conversation on wine both in print and on-line there is a tendency to focus on what's new, what's hot, what's cultish, what's fashionable. This makes sense. What's New is...

"Do your wines contain sulfites? My friend is very allergic and she'll go into shock if she drinks wine containing sulfites." That’s enough to scare me silly. All I need is to have a gasping, cyanotic customer on the floor. "Well, uh," I stammer, "then perhaps she'd better not have any, just in case." And I pull the glass back. He hangs on to the glass. "So your wines do have sulfites...

I just finished reading in California Grapevine an address that Dan Berger gave the Wine Press Club of New South Wales. You can also find it online HERE. (ATTN: PDF) In it, he offers selected advice for the wineries and...

Forty years ago this spring, David Lett went against the best advice of his UC Davis professors and put Oregon’s first Pinot Noir plants into the hilly red earth outside Dundee, just southwest of Portland. Vintage 2006 marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of Oregon’s Pinot Noir industry. And yet the occasion passed with relatively little notice as winemakers went about harvesting their grapes...