October 18th, 2011

Lamb Meatballs with Cumin, Mint, and Tomato Sauce Paired with Ramspeck Napa Pinot Noir 2009

Cabernet vines dominate the Napa Valley landscape, but everyone (I assume) knows that! What often gets overlooked is that (given half the chance) Napa can still do a decent job with Pinot Noir; even though Sonoma, Willamette (Oregon), and Carneros hog most of the limelight. Now don’t get me wrong, the Pinot’s coming out of “the Valley” are stylistically very different than those hailing from the cooler aforementioned regions; producing wines which are much more…

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The Strange Search Engine Results I Occasionally Attract.

So I was going through my Google Analytics the other day, checking into some of the back-end data, looking at some of the most popular search keywords that lead people to wind up at this website etc etc etc…all very boring! I have a fairly short attention-span, and so after a while, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at some of the “long tail” search results I receive. These are search…

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