On April 15th, Come Celebrate Your Tax Refund! (OR Commiserate Over Taxes Owed!) . Either way, you'll feel better after honing your tasting skills with me during an evening at Reaves Gallery , a great new art space at 2344 Market Street run by my old friend Sharon Reaves (at her gallery, right).  Tickets are $49. Using exercises I've learned over decades of wine tasting, attendees...

Skeptical?  Let's Test It! At last month's wine class at the Reaves Gallery, attendees voted ... what you think! When: May 20th, 6:30 - 8:00 Where: Reaves Gallery, 235 Gough St. Cost: $49...

Joanne and Trent have been building Gingerbread Houses for three years. We have compiled a gallery of Christmas Gingerbread House photos. 2007's houses are currently underconstruction (not up yet). Cross the yellow tape at your own risk...

I've just posted pictures from our last three events on our photo gallery : the Shiraz tasting in February, the Spring Cleaning in March, and last week's Merlot tasting. If you're interested, the software used to create the photo gallery is the free JAlbum software, which I really like: you just ... for publishing to the web or burning to a CD if you want to give someone a picture gallery on disk...

Lawrence Gallery and The Private Reserve Tasting Room The Private Reserve tasting room inside the Lawrence Gallery hosted us for a tasting this last Saturday. We poured our 2005 Pinot Noir ... , but it didn't matter. It was completely worthwhile to make the connections. We met the gallery owners ... ), and the combination of the two... specifically we discussed the possibility of using art from their gallery on my...

Random shots, here and there, of people and places in and around Verona. Feel the love. Romanesque church, Bardolino Castelrotto from the bedroom of the B B At Stefano and Maria's place (Maria is in the kitchen cooking) Friend Alex...

This Adriatic region of Italy is definitely off the usual American rut of Veniceflorencerome. It's worth exploring, as Dom did for a few days. Beautiful, more open and far more Mediterranean in feeling than Tuscany, it recalls Greece and Turkey...

Many shall remain captionless. The name of the photo usually provides all you really need to know. I did go a little wild taking pix there. It's hard not to. Enjoy a few vicarious hours there anyway. The espresso here at Bar Ducale is the best north of Naples, I ...

Italy is green, lush and flowering in April and early May. Roadsides are red with poppies. The hills seem to topple over with blooming trees of every kind. Mild days and cool nights bring an invigorating balance. The air is fresh and bright. It is the best of times. More ...