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My Personal Holiday: Today is National Wine Day

After all, it’s possible I singlehandedly keep some wineries in business … Last year, I ran down some wine recommendations in this post for stocking up across the nation. Today, we focus on Austin and natural wine. What is natural wine? Low intervention, often but not always organic and/or biodynamically farmed, often but not always…

Checklist 55: Shopping Confessions

Or, how great marketing wins? I made a list of packages I’m expecting this week and it’s embarrassing. I didn’t think I was shopping online much but the eight packages I’m currently waiting on certainly appear to make a liar of me. Shop Shoppin’ Away is the only category today MadRabbit (tattoo cream) – I’ve…

Nikki’s List: Stock Your Wine Fridge

Say you’re ready to graduate from the hated three (hint: if you can buy it at Target, do not bring that wine in my house), but don’t know where to start, the most obvious place is your local wine shop—or restaurant, during the pandemic—where you make friends with the people that work there and they…

An Overnight to Fredericksburg

As a native Texan, I had some reservations about an overnight to Fredericksburg. But! I now wholly endorse the place because this was an amazing 24 hours filled with surprises. The intention was a holy-grail visit to French Connection Wines, a winery I’ve been stalking since they opened last September. The place is every bit…

There are no rules! | Feel Good Friday 032720

Gratitude in the time of coronavirus… Wednesday night, 11pm, me to me (looking wistfully at the bathtub): a hot bath would feel great right now me to me: it’s too late to take a bath me to me: it’s coronavirus time, there are no rules! me. Grateful for my family, friends, and pup in this…

The Most Perfect | Feel Good Friday 091319

Willamette. A bed and breakfast better than any hostel. 7 friends. A minivan named the SS Meatstick. Bonfires. A BBQ barn and the greatest Italian bistro. Happy chicken tenders and dump buckets, still not beer.  My 35th birthday trip was the most perfect. Worlds collided, friends came together, and amazing times were had by all.…