http://blog.digitaltavern.com -- There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't met Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:33:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.digitaltavern.com/creative-pursuit/aging-california-wine-friday-the-13th http://blog.digitaltavern.com/creative-pursuit/aging-california-wine-friday-the-13th#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:58:51 +0000 allan http://blog.digitaltavern.com/?p=790 Some historians peg the superstition to the thirteen people who attended the Last Supper (neither Jesus nor Judas came out of that one OK), but ancient Babylon's Code of Hammurabi omits the number 13 in its list of law [...] ... Wall Street's superstitions about Friday the 13th continued through 1925, when the New York Times noted that people "would no more buy or sell a share of stock today than they would walk under a ladder or kick a black cat out of their path."

]]> http://blog.digitaltavern.com/creative-pursuit/aging-california-wine-friday-the-13th/feed 2 http://blog.digitaltavern.com/good-juice/1977-trefethen-cabernet-sauvignon http://blog.digitaltavern.com/good-juice/1977-trefethen-cabernet-sauvignon#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:44:51 +0000 allan http://blog.digitaltavern.com/?p=731 Last weekend I was surprised by a visit of my good friend, mountain climber, travel companion and legend Mr. Tim Amos. For the 16 hours he spent in Southern California, we tried to take advantage of our time together. First stop was a visit to my wine cellar (storage facility) in Irvine. Culling from the more than 1,000 bottles I’ve [...]

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