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 [...]

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Toast now serves wine and beer. Share on Facebook

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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