One of the quotations that I often seem to hear about the San Francisco Bay Area is also a pretty familiar one to the rest of us who live here, and it comes, rightfully, from Mark Twain:
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Twain also said:
It is better to keep […]

New advance search feature on wine.com is pretty snazzy
Wine.com announced a new Advanced Wine Search feature that works in real time. It’s so cool that I want to see it everywhere.
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A Twilight’s Mission, Once Again
Poetry from The Winehiker about a summer night’s climb of Mission Peak.
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By all appearances, WineBid.com is an efficient, user-friendly Internet auction experience that offers the same fine and rare wines available at traditional brick-and-mortar wine auction houses. I’ve been occasionally checking out the site over the past year because someday when I grow up I’ll be able to afford the minimum bid on some of their […]

I hurt myself over the weekend and had to make an appointment with my chiropractor. No, it wasn’t because I drank a lot of wine and fell off the hiking trail. No, no!
I just fell out of my chair. Laughing! Seems some folks just use the funniest search strings.
I routinely check my site reports to […]

Wine.com today alerted me to a new Advanced Wine Search feature on their website that easily narrows the search path toward a wine or wines that fit the parameters you select, all in real time. I don’t consider myself so geeky that I know what’s behind this new functionality, but I’ll climb the Tree of Educated Guesses […]

There she stands
Once again before us
Her velvet slopes
Glowing golden in the twilight.

Rapt allure
Once again before us
It’s in our hearts
To revel at her summit.

City lights
Once again beneath us
We’ve conquered her
And it is we who glow golden.

Rapture stirs
Once again inside us
We choose to go
Where we know we can go, always.

We don’t move the mountain
But once again
The mountain surely […]

Win a bottle of 2004 Dominus Estate from The Winehiker
Win a bottle of 2004 Dominus Estate from The Winehiker. The rules are pretty darn easy.
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Moving Beyond Kyoto - New York Times
Al Gore writes an opinion piece in the Sunday, July 1st edition of the New York Times […]

That’s right! During the month of July, I hereby declare that I’m giving away a bottle of Dominus Estate, a regularly sought-after Bordeaux-style blend from Napa Valley, California. There are three ways to win this bottle. Ideally, you could win six bottles!

Image source: Dominus Estate
It’s not every day that you get to try a […]