Life on the Vine

I'm sitting in my usual leather chair.  A gift my father gave Tom and I more than ten years ago when we still lived in Missouri.  Tom is out having coffee with a friend and took Colt with him.  Henry is upstairs laying in bed but just came downstairs and now sits in one of our loaner chairs.  My shoulders are tense and my upper back is sore.  This morning technology made me mad.  REALLY mad.  I frankly wanted to smash my computer against the wall.  Why is it that something that should be so easy is complicated?  The frustration over trying to transfer photos between devices ended in tears spilling down my face.  Why am I so angry?  Why isn't this working?  Why aren't the multiple "How To" sites I'm reading off the Internet providing any help? So here's what I set out to do.  Over the past year I've taken pictures at the more than 30 wineries we've visited.  Pictures of the vines, the fields, the grapes.  Pictures of nature, pictures that show the

Six months ago grapes looked like this... Fattoria Le Vegre - 28 April And now they look like this... La Dole Vigna - 08 September  And the harvest has begun. What better time to do a retrospective wine blog going back to April and coming forward through August, right?  Our wine adventures this past Spring and Summer included visiting sixteen wineries (two of which we had been to before); one Vicenza Spring Bizarre, where we got to taste wine from two new wineries, and an annual wine festival where we tasted wine from twelve wineries, one of which we'd had before.  It also included a fun girls' day and a trip to Tuscany for Tom's birthday weekend.  All total we went to, or had wine from 30 wineries.  We've been busy! We started with Fattoria Le Vegre , a recommendation from my friend Nancy.  I've mentioned Nancy before.  We worked together in Germany and she lived in Vicenza while we were back home in Arizona.  She moved back to the States l