Category Archives : Book


QR Codes, Pour Me Another

QR Codes? Oh, Yes!

It seems that my wine guide is one of the first guide books to make extensive use of QR codes.  What is a QR code?  It is a bar code of sorts that looks like the illustration below. When you scan a QR code with the bar code scanner app on your smart phone, it […]


Pour Me Another avalable for sale at Barnes & Noble online…again!

Pour Me Another: An Opinionated Guide to Gold Country Wines is once again for sale at Barnes & Noble online.  Although, they are listing it as “currently unavailable” which is entirely false.  Not sure what drugs these people are on, but whatever they’re taking, I don’t want any.  Just go to Amazon.com. Share this:Share


Fiddling the Tax Man

Amazon.com is not collecting California sales tax on purchases made on their site from California.  I just made a purchase, a new wine journal, and they didn’t charge me the California sales tax. So, if you were holding back on buying my book, Pour Me Another: An Opinionated Guide to Gold Country Wines, because of […]


Oh, The Irony!

I haven’t been writing posts ahead of my posting them.  This would normally not be a problem.  Until recently.  You see, I occasionally suffer from gout.  And the past week has been one of those occasions.  Gout is an very painful inflammation of a joint, in this case where my big toe joins my foot.  […]


Cover Image?

I’m thinking about the cover image for Pour Me Another. Two pictures I took this past weekend are, I think, contenders. Both were taken at Gold Hill Winery. With some judicious cropping, I think this is a good one. Although lacking a foreground, I think that this second option would be good. I’m trying to […]

Option 1