Yesterday was my mother’s 88th birthday. We took advantage of a lovely day to take a drive up to Person County, where we had a picnic and tasted some wine at the Rock of Ages winery. They have a couple of drinkable wines (and a few way-too-sweet wines), but mostly it’s a good excuse for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Wine'
Happy Birthday, Mom!
October 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Food · Friends & Family · Mom · North Carolina · North Carolina wines · Wine
More downtown culinary news
April 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: 27701 · Durham, NC · Food · Wine
White wine chosen
September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
The white wine for the wedding: Viognier from RagApple Lassie. RagApple Lassie was one of the wineries we stopped at earlier this month. Beautiful, big space, nice wine-tasting room. Short tour included something I’d never seen in all my wine tours in Napa and Sonoma: vats of freshly crushed grapes. Made me want to take [...]
Tags: North Carolina · North Carolina wines · Wedding · Wine
Showers and flowers
September 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments
The wedding plans continue apace, with a lovely shower on Sunday (Thanks, Emily!) on a sunny, less-than-95 degree day. I put in the order for the flowers, which in keeping with everything else about this wedding, are non-traditional: at least they are east of Hawaii, which is where they’re being fedexed from. Mr. Dependable came [...]