Shawshank Wine
I have a thing for beverages. Two weeks ago I wrote about beer. Last week espresso/coffee. This week. Wine. Next week. H2O. Maybe I am called to the beverage business. And here I am just writing and wasting my time. I won't even tell you how much time I dedicated to researching espresso machines this week. After getting jacked on espresso last Friday, I headed to a local tasting room for California wines here in Lancaster. The night before I had been watching the local public access channel (I have Basic Cable so my options for TV are limited) and there was a winemaker being interviewed. I was thinking that it was another local vineyard trying to convince people that its wines were on par with Napa and Sonoma California. Although I am hardly a sommelier, I know this much about wine: There is no substitute for the warm and dry by day and cool by night geography of good wines. It is not even debatable. Or maybe it is. There is a lot of PR and prissy posturing in win