Last Thursday night at the Wine 2.0 Spring Fling at Crushpad in San Francisco (photoessay here), I chanced to meet Linzi Gay, Marketing Director of Clif Bar Family Winery. I was glad to meet her and get an advance taste of the Clif Bar wines she was about to pour. After all, I had just […]

My hiking season is in full swing, and I’m now trekking 20 miles or so of trail each week. But it recently became apparent to me that if I am going to keep up this pace, I had better get a new pair of boots. A pair just like my old pair of Vasques, not […]

Wine 2.0 is, apparently, the confluence of wine and technology that results in purple teeth. Without a whole lot of fanfare, I hereby offer photos from last night’s Wine 2.0 Spring Fling at Crushpad in San Francisco. Many thanks to Cornelius Geary and Jeff Playter of Rad-Cru for hosting what many folks felt was a […]

I’ve been recruited as a spy!
At the risk of blowing my cover, I want to alert you to a one-day-only 20% deal I\’ve uncovered on an Oakville-appellation Cabernet Sauvignon. It\’s your mission, should you decide to drink it. But do it on April 25, 2008!
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Wine 2.0: The confluence of […]

Oops - should I have said that? Whoa, I’ve just blown my cover!!!
Uh-oh. Now I’ve gone and done it! Suddenly, it’s cloak and dagger time! Sheesh, I’m going to have to spend the remainder of my days constantly looking over my shoulder for Impy the Midget!!
But seriously: there’s an organization called The Wine Spies, and […]

I am involved in a social community local to the San Francisco Bay Area called Bay Area Linkup. I’ve been hosting hiking events with this group for nearly five years and wine-tasting events for the past three, and I’ll continue to do so simply because I’m having the time of my life.
While my hiking events […]

This Earth Day - and every day - consider asking yourself if you are truly changing your habits to do the things that really matter.

Are you using low-flow shower heads?
Are you considering the type and amount of packaging in the products you buy?
Are you using canvas shopping bags for your groceries instead of paper or […]

Westerns are so much a part of American culture that it’s a rare channel-surfing moment when you won’t see at least one classic western on your TV. Like my dad before me, I cut my teeth on westerns - first in film and later in print - and they began to influence the outdoorsy person I […]

I’ve been wanting to write a post about an April 5th collaborative effort undertaken by five South Bay Area hiking bloggers, yours truly being among them. I’d heard about a local fourteener that was only climbable one day out of every year. I’d certainly never climbed it.
“A fourteener?” I had asked, making no attempt to conceal […]

Friends, it’s time, once again, to play…
[Studio audience chants in unison]
…Spin! That! Wine Bottle!!
[Feigned hysteria]
Today our contestants are: wine book authors from Earth! And to start things off right, let’s give our bottle a good spin, shall we?
[Background swell of vacuum racking equipment, clacking and humming merrily]
Yes, friends! Round and round the bottle goes! Where […]