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FMN – January 2024 – A Temperate January
Every year I hear this incessant squawking about refraining from alcohol consumption for a month after New Years. I believe the upstart heathens call it “Dry January.” The nature of this…
Easy but Delicious Mulled Wine Recipe
Mulled Wine Recipe Ingredients A bottle (750 ml) of mid-range dry red wine (I like to use a Cabernet, Merlot or Syrah) Brandy (1/3 cup) 2 Fresh oranges (blood oranges if you can find them) Peel skin…
FMN – December 2023 – Wines With Holiday Nostalgia
This time of year has a very special meaning to me. For whatever reason, my memories of childhood seem to cumulate largely from occurrences around the Holiday Season. Now, as an adult, I have a…
Post and Courier – December 2023 – Wines for Holiday Drop-ins
As the holiday season ebbs closer, we see an uptick in both personal and workplace drop-ins. These mini-parties can give the host or hostess sleepless nights worrying about the happiness of their…
FMN – November 2023 – Pre-holiday Wallet Friendly Wines
I always subscribed to the old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, especially when it comes to finances. With the impending holidays, this has immediate applicability if you…
FMN – October 2023 – Changing Weather, Changing Wines
Admittedly a seasonal guy, I do appreciate all the different holidays and changes of weather we experience throughout the year, but Autumn still remains my favorite. Perhaps it’s some residual of…
Post and Courier – November 2023 – Wines for a Southern Thanksgiving
All my southern friends say now that I’ve lived south of the Mason Dixon line for over twenty years, I’ve graduated from Yankee to Carpetbagger. Certainly meant slightly tongue in cheek, I choose the…
FMN – September 2023 – Football and Wine
The time of year has arrived when we focus from sweating like a pig to the pigskin sport, football. When I was young, there were many years that my father and I had differing opinions on politics,…
