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Fine Wine Source Club Selections – April 2024

Posted on April 16, 2024 by thewineraconteur

Once a month, I go to my local wine shop The Fine Wine Source of Livonia, Michigan to pick up their club selections.  The odds are that I go there more often than that for the camaraderie and the in-house … Continue reading →

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Christmas Eve 2023

Posted on January 8, 2024 by thewineraconteur

Since my Bride is one of five sisters, the desire to do holidays is always at the forefront.  One sister is exempt, because she doesn’t live in the state, and one just doesn’t.  There was a bit of drama, as … Continue reading →

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“It’s My Birthday” Part Two

Posted on March 13, 2023 by thewineraconteur

Ms. Yoga was taking Charleston by storm with, no prisoners as we were going to make a day of it, until her birthday dinner.  It looked like rain, but as the three of us left the Renaissance Hotel for another … Continue reading →

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Two Beautiful Whites

Posted on February 25, 2022 by thewineraconteur

There I was at The Fine Wine Source in Livonia, Michigan just casually stopping by to pick up my monthly club selections, and I was asked if I had a few minutes to taste some wines that they were looking … Continue reading →

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The Rugby Grille

Posted on July 23, 2021 by thewineraconteur

We were still aimlessly wandering in downtown Birmingham, albeit shopping in the summer sun.  While Noel Coward may not have coined the expression, it still rings true when one is shopping in a downtown setting “Mad Dogs and Englishmen go … Continue reading →

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Two From Prum

Posted on December 15, 2020 by thewineraconteur

I had the chance to taste two different wines from the same winery, same vineyard, same vintage, but two different levels of ripeness while I was at The Fine Wine Source in Livonia, Michigan.  I guess as a “Street Somm” … Continue reading →

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An Elbling and a Riesling

Posted on December 13, 2020 by thewineraconteur

An Elbling and a Riesling Sometimes as I walk around my local wine shop The Fine Wine Source, I see wines that I haven’t noticed before.  If it happens when I am there alone, nothing much happens, perhaps a little … Continue reading →

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The New Ennui

Posted on August 23, 2020 by thewineraconteur

Every morning around seven, we go out for our daily 3K walk and it takes us about forty minutes and then we come home, clean up and get dressed and have breakfast.  Our normal routine now, though I don’t have … Continue reading →

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Tilapia and Two from Franken

Posted on April 30, 2020 by thewineraconteur

“The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine” is a quote from Nurse Ratched from the theatrical play and then the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.  This is Day 40 as I write … Continue reading →

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Weingut Pfluger

Posted on February 22, 2020 by thewineraconteur

There are times when you are tasting wines that notes aren’t taken as studiously or the moment is rather hectic as it was while we were at The Fine Wine Source.  As I have said, my Bride becomes the center … Continue reading →

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