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Two Premier Crus from Chassagne-Montrachet

What a great way to spend an hour or so, but at my favorite wine shop, the Fine Wine Source in Livonia, Michigan and doing a Burgundian wine tasting.  Michael Corso of Michael Corso Selections was taking us in small … Continue reading

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Eleven Years of The Wine Raconteur

I know it is hard for me to believe that I have been doing this for so long, I just looked it up, and the average is two to three years.  I guess if you are having fun and don’t … Continue reading

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Match Day

I guess I am rather naive about certain aspects about the medical field.  I mean all my life, I have had a doctor, first a pediatrician, then a General Practitioner or nowadays an Internist and the odd specialist along the … Continue reading

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Happy Easter 2023

My Bride and I would like to wish you a Happy Easter. More wine and stories coming from your humble raconteur. 

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New Year’s Eve Ramblings

When I was young New Year’s Eve was a night to go out with your date to a night club, have dinner, wine and Champagne and dance the night away.  We had people that personified cool for that night on … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas 2022

My Bride and I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas May the Season bring you plenty of health, happiness, luck and joy

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Whiskey and Whisky

“When it rains, it pours” is a very common slogan heard in Michigan, as it was an advertising slogan for a salt company in Detroit.  Under the city and beyond its border is a huge underground salt mine, that in … Continue reading

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Saying Goodbye to Our Host

I guess it truly was a moment of serendipity that we ended up at the Las Vegas Food & Wine Festival at Tivoli Village.  We really went to Las Vegas to spend time with the children and grandchildren, but who … Continue reading

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Tenjaku Whisky

While we were at the Las Vegas Food & Wine Festival at Tivoli Village we got slightly astray from drinking wines.  If that is possible, but I saw a vendor table offering Japanese Whisky and I have never had any.  … Continue reading

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Las Vegas Food & Wine Festival

It was quite happenstance or serendipity, but this vacation of ours was planned quite some time prior and only about a month or so prior to our leaving, did I find out about this event.  Through the wonders of social … Continue reading

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