2023 in review featuring bottles of wine from La Maliosa in Tuscany which I visited in 2023

Where did we go in 2023 and where are we going in 2024? When I posed those questions to my writing partner Sue Hill earlier in December, she perused the 80 some articles we did, considered the 250 or more wines we wrote about, and remembered the pairings to come up with this list of her Top 1, 2 or 3 from each month. It’s taken me a little longer to get to my thoughts: my son was home from college and we worked on a bunch of projects in the yard and house, I’m fostering a boxer-terrier-bulldog, and now we’re in Tahoe on a family ski vacation and celebrating my birthday which is Thursday. 

2023 on the run with 2024 on its heels (aka Moose my foster dog)

As I reflect on 2023, I marvel at the amazing experiences I had with wine, food, and travel abroad for three weeks in Italy and 10 days in Portugal. I’ve barely scratched the surface of the stories I want to tell.  Continue reading →