Rombauer Zinfandel was our wine of choice for New Year’s Eve. If I were to describe it in musical terms, I would say that it thrashes around my mouth like a bombastic heavy metal front man on a strobe-lit stage.
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Boozy Lifestyle Release Party
Boozy Lifestyle Now Available On Amazon.com! Funny, light-hearted collection of stories about life and family integrated with wine, cocktails, and food, including over 50 food and drink recipes.
What Is A Boozy Lifestyle?
Boozy Lifestyle: Elevate The Everyday With Booze As Your Muse is available for pre-order and will be released on November 5th, 2021.
The Cape May Wine Scene – Turdo Vineyards and Winery
While other wineries are advertising live music, food, and festivals, Turdo is quietly making good wines that sell out without all the hoopla.
Shameless Boozy Lifestyle Book Promotion
My November release date is just around the corner. I’m excited (and nervous) to publish my first book, Boozy Lifestyle: Elevate The Everyday With Booze As Your Muse on Amazon. It has been a labor of love that I hope will resonate with you, my readers. Thank you for following my blog and encouraging me to pursue this new creative outlet.
What’s In My Journal
While other folks may be pouring their hearts out and expressing their inner-most thoughts and feelings in their journals, I’m recording what I eat and drink every day.
Tales of the Liquor Store: Getting To Know Your Customers
After several weeks of selling Yellow Tail, Cupcake, and Sutter Home, I had all but given on being able to sell the Cakebread Chardonnay and the Masi Amarone. Then along came a young, well-dressed man looking for a holiday gift for his boss.
What 3 Things Do You Value Most?
As a teenager, valuing truth sounded like something biblical; be honest and don’t lie to your parents. For older me, truth represents reality. It’s a lifelong learning process to perceive facts without bias. The chaotic din of social media and pundits makes us more prone to falsehoods and propaganda and less able to distinguish factual reality. I didn’t realize how much I valued truth and integrity until I saw so little of them displayed in public.
Boozy Beginnings
In the beginning, there was beer. As a rebellious, newly legal-age drinker, I refused to drink the brand of beer my father drank. In my young mind, it carried the stigma of dad beer; budget-friendly, old-fashioned swill drunk by pot-bellied, blue-collar, middle-aged men. Instead I headed out to the local store to buy my own six-pack.
Pairing Food and Wine, or Not
The Boozy Lifestyle goal is to avoid gastronomic catastrophe. There are some excellent books on pairing if you’re interested in a painstaking journey into balancing the flavors of food with the perfect wine
