Growing Grapes Helps Writing?

by | Mar 24, 2011 | Viticulture, Wine, Wine Writer

My friend Sondra Barrett, of SondraBarrett.com just sent this to me as an idea for another blog story: “Thought of you when I read this – a future blog – growing  grapes helps writing?” Sondra had just read a New York Times Story about Emilio...

When It Was Like a Mirror

by | Jan 28, 2011 | Jo's World, Poet in wine country, Wine

When it was like a mirror, it was in the days of my youth, and a seamless parallel world existed in complete and utter calm. Where the ying of reality met its yang of opposition, you could stand on your head, and not knowing which was which (except for the sand...