Light blogging excuse

Wondering why we haven't blogged any wines recently?

It's not that we're not drinking them--it's that Ed, who writes up most of the posts, is part of the cast of Globe Theatre's production of Twelfth Night (by that up-and-coming young playwriting prodigy Bill Shakespeare), which opens Thursday, April 21, and has thus been very busy with rehearsals.

Once the show is up and running, there'll be a bit more free time for blogging, and we'll catch up.

Wine of the House-of-Tutankhamun Ruler-of-the-Southern-On, l.p.h.[in] the Western River, Year 5

No, we didn't drink it--but King Tut did. And now, for the first time, scientists have been able to determine that it was red wine.

Despite red wine's health benefits, however, we probably can't make the claim that King Tut is so well-preserved because of drinking it.

Terroirists?

Radical winegrowers--no, really--in France have bombed government offices to demand an increase in government subsidies.

We like really expensive French wine--but the ordinary stuff leaves us cold. Give us a cheap New World wine over a cheap French one any day.

Guess we're part of the French winemakers' problems.