Well, itt has been a while since I have blogged as we are back in Tennessee and had to get over jet lag and then go for 4 days to Washington DC to see our son, Jon, and check out his new row house that he just bought in the Capital Hill area of DC. His first home looks really nice and he is busy improving it. Now two of our three children are homeowners--or more accurately have big house payments to banks that actually own their homes.


This shot has a story. Just down the road from us in Matakana we have a new vineyard owned by a weathy Kiwi who is sort of rowdy it seems. The name of his wine and vineyard certainly catches the eye of all that past. Actually that big rooster on the sign and label is pretty cute but we are not too sure about the choice of names:):):):):):) Anyway, he is selling a good bit just off of the novelty of the name for sure. It is not a bad merlot based red wine actually-- but not in the class of our Hawks Nest Malbec/Cab Franc for sure.

We all resettled into Nashville and I have 4 wine tasting events this next month so lots of Tennesseans will get to taste our good wine this Tenn spring. It is still March here and routinely in the 80's the last two weeks. This global warming stuff must be real!!!

More soon and sorry for the hiatus in posts.

Dr JIm in Tennessee