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I decided to punt when I purchased a set of wine punts, with their motto “Drink from the better half.” Not only are they a great opportunity to offset your carbon footprint, they are practical too. Of course we participate in the weekly recycling program, but as I stared at the growing mountain of bottles [...]

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As I sat in anticipation of the final episode of HBO’s series Generation Kill, I decided to celebrate the finale with a South African wine (as a large majority of the show is filmed in South Africa): a 2006. This was a very pleasant wine, with both an oaky and fruity taste. It [...]

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The wife called today as I was leaving work, declaring a state of emergency. I wondered: did Tropical Storm Fay transform, on day four of the storm, from an annoying rainstorm into a full hurricane, taking a u-turn and placing it a collision course with Casa Wine?
No. We are just out of wine. I stopped [...]

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The Mrs. and I were sitting around watching the Olympics tonight and thought we really need a better solution to storing our wine instead of the $10 metal wine racks mounted on the wall from Ikea. But we couldn’t decide on what size wine refrigerator we should buy. Of course I wanted to buy a [...]

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Today was our daughter’s second birthday. (Happy birthday, Maisie!) I was driving home form work when I received a call from home warning of the convergence of the grandparents on Casa Wine. The expected party at home was to be mommy, daddy, daughter and the two furry additions, Elmo the cat and Lucy the dog. [...]

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