Wine and slow wifi in Salt Lake City


Staying in an industrial area near airport, not a lot of restaurants except for a few hotels. Bob’s is nothing fancy, food is passable, but Utah allows you to take your bottle with you as long as you have had “at least one sip.” So I paid too much, but went back to room to struggle…

A quiet place in Las Vegas


The Wine Cellar in the Rio, what a wonder, 10,000 bottles of wine. And you don’t hear slot machines!

“Beer is made by men, wine by God.” Luther


So how did this fascination of mine with wine develop? I remember the days of Annie Green Springs wine (last produced in 1977). Or Almaden jug wine, it comes in a box today; but a box would never work for a candleholder, which graced many of our tables, alongside concrete block bookshelves, and kerosene lamps,…