Category Archives: Life Balance

New Wine for a New Generation of Wine Drinkers Or . . .

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Poor Robert

For a while now I’ve been thinking about the sheer volume of new wine (different labels) have hit the market in the past several years, why and what it really means. In an effort to synthesize my thoughts on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Food and Wine, Life Balance, Varietals, Wine, Wine Tasting, Winemakers, Winemaking | Tagged Life Style, Varitals, Wine Aging, wine industry, Wine Tasting | 1 Comment

What Old Wino’s Do In Retirement

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Poor Robert

When I made the decision to retire it wasn’t easy. After all I’d been doing lawyers stuff for forty-three years and as you can imagine, it pretty much defined me professionally. What would I do with all my time? Would … Continue reading →

Posted in Craft Furniture, Food and Wine, Life Balance, Travel, Whimsy, Wine Barrells, Words, Writing | Tagged Stools, Whimsy, Wine Furnitures, Words, Writing | 9 Comments

Life Observed Through the Bottom of a Wine Bottle

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Poor Robert

We’ve all heard the phrase “looking at the world through the bottom of a bottle”. Well I did just that and had to be stone cold sober to pull it off. I’ve been having some fun lately using empty wine … Continue reading →

Posted in Hodgpodge, Life Balance, Whimsy, Wine Glasses, Wine Photos | Tagged Whimsy, Wine, Wine Bottles, Wine Photos | 8 Comments

Writers Block for a Wine Reviewer

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Poor Robert

Writers block comes in a number of forms for serious writers. It can be lack of ideas, stress, being unhappy with ones writing, or a lack of validation (self mostly). For a wine reviewer there can be another reason, wine … Continue reading →

Posted in Craft Wines, Life Balance, Production Wine, Whimsy, Wines, Words, Writing | Tagged Varitals, Wine, Wine Terms, Writer Block | 8 Comments

My World Through Wine Glasses

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Poor Robert

I’ve always been a fan of Alice In Wonderland and I find a bit of whimsy in looking at things through the distortion of the bottom’s of bottles of all sorts, especially wine bottles with their really curvy bottoms. Today … Continue reading →

Posted in Hodgpodge, Life Balance, Port, Whimsy, Wine Glasses, Wine Photos | Tagged Distortion, Hodgepodge, Life Balance, Modern World, Port, Whimsy, Wine Glasses | 15 Comments

The Weekly Wine for February 28, 2016

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Poor Robert

Jeff Stai’s (El Jefe to those that know him) Twisted Oak Winery produces some of my favorite wines created with an Iberian feel from old vines (grown in California) of some of the greatest varietals of Spain and Portugal. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Craft Wines, Grenache, Hodgpodge, Jeff Stai, Life Balance, Wine, Wine Buying, Wine Making, Wine Photos, Winemakers, Wines, Words | Tagged California, experience, grapes into wine, Grenache, Jeff Stai, Life Balance, the modern world, Twisted Oak, Wine, wine industry, Wine Varieties | 2 Comments

Sulfite Free Wine Anybody, Not!

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Poor Robert

What’s with the sulfites in wine? In any number of forums I follow this question comes up over and over again. Yesterday I saw a post by a friend Anna Salinas that referred to Wines.com TV: Rob Moshein’s piece on … Continue reading →

Posted in Hodgpodge, Life Balance, Production Wine, Wine, Wine Making, Wine Tasting, Wines | Tagged grapes into wine, the modern world, Wine, wine industry, Wine Terminology, Wine Terms | 5 Comments

A Conversation with a Great Bottle of Wine

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Poor Robert

Preamble: I’ve been writing all my life and constructing this blog for several years now. To challenge myself and the status quo I am trying to change up some of my presentation styles. I’ve never seriously written in the third … Continue reading →

Posted in Hodgpodge, Life Balance, Production Wine, Uncategorized, Varietals, Wine, Wine Buying, Wine Making, Wine Tasting, Winemaking, Wines, Words | Tagged experience, fermentation process, grapes into wine, Life Balance, the modern world, Varitals, vintage wine, Wine, wine industry | 16 Comments

Why Can’t I get the Wine I like Where I live?

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Poor Robert

Wine is complicated and believe it or not still hostage, to a degree in certain states, to Prohibition era legislation. The whole process gets further complicated by the messy relationship between State and Federal laws about import, export and interstate … Continue reading →

Posted in Craft Wines, Life Balance, Production Wine, Uncategorized, Varietals, Wine Tasting, Wines, Words | Tagged experience, grapes into wine, Life Balance, the modern world, Wine, wine industry | 6 Comments

The Musings of a Busy LIfe — Making Time for Wine

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Poor Robert

It has been tough to find writing time these past few weeks, as making a living has gotten in the way of my passion for writing and wine. I know that some people actually make a living writing blogs, but … Continue reading →