Wine Sex, Beauty in the Bottle

The vineyards call to me this time of year and this afternoon I HAD to go check to see how they are doing. WOW! We've heard about slow food, man, the grapes are dawdling this year. I was up on Westside Rd. in Healdsburg tasting some merlot grapes - SOUR! This is a hotter area of the Russian River so I expected them to be 'cookin' - I'd guess they have another few weeks and they're earlier ripening reds than the rest.

This has been a most peculiar year weatherwise - is this evidence of global warming that we try so hard to ignore?

Yet it is so beautiful! I am ever grateful to be living up here to witness Nature's splendor.

Happy Harvest!

Celebrate this harvest by sending your friends an original wine postcard. The inner beauty and life of wine is captured through a microscope as are most of the wine portraits on this site. The set includes a cab (Ridge Monte Bello), chardonnay (Grgich), and merlot (Sterling).

PURCHASE a postcard series of 3 wine styles. Which expresses merlot best?

If you're really into the expression of taste, check out the 5 tastes postcards.