I was going to wait a bit until we were completely set up, but Second Life has been in the news ... in the virtual space known as Second Life. While we won’t be the first Second Life winery (that distinction goes to the appropriately named Obscure Winery), we will be the first Real Life winery in the space (if you call a vineyard and a set of building plans a “Real Life winery”). While one of my goals...

... settlement, which did nothing for us as anthropologists of the drinking life. Having inhabited...

Work has slowed down and it's time to get down to some serious blogging again. We're even completely prepared for the next Wine Blogging Wednesday. It won't be sneaking up on us this time! We haven't been tasting much wine over the last month or so. I had a toothache, which led to a root canal last Friday. Things are looking up now and we've purchased a lot of wine in the last few weeks. So...

... to with wine but did actually inspire me in my everyday job, which is rare. I promise it will wear off soon ... neglected to write it down, which is slightly out of character for me. In the life scheme of things ... to need wine just to relax. I have a post up my sleeve for later today, and in the meantime, I need to catch up on all the other wine blogs out...

Growing grapes, even if they do eventually get magically turned into bottles of tasty vino, is akin to any other sort of agricultural work. It's hard, but it can be very rewarding as well. In a series of articles about... Continue .

Last week a new social bookmarking site debuted that hopes to be for wine what Digg.com is for technology. If you are not familiar with Digg, it’s a website where users submit links to technology related stories and then the community (i.e. other users/readers) vote on these stories, eventually promoting the most popular...

... was slaughtered every evening by the god of cooking, Andhrimnir, and then came back to life, just to get ... with huge amounts of mead, poured by the Valkyries. Ordinarily, mead is a wine made from honey...

... of adult life prohibited to this age group. In the Western world, the United States is almost entirely ... as young as 16. In France, the drinking age is 18, although, if you want beer or wine, you may ... life in the United States military. In the spring of this year, Wisconsin lawmakers introduced...

... in wine." He and his fellow Romans would grind bitter almonds into their mix of eel and wine until it was a thick paste. Then they would eat it with bread. The wine acted as a "hair of the dog ... as a main ingredient in wine, as well as in embalming fluids. Horse brains were an ancient Chinese...

... living male they knew about was their father. So they got him drunk on wine and slept with him. 4 ... ended his life. The Bolivian government then claimed that Guevara had been killed in a gunfight...