by Phil Anderson
Remember the song, “Hello, It’s Me.  Haven’t been around for a long, long time…”?  How relevant is THAT?  Once again I find myself having to apologize to those that find refuge in my little wine blog but yet don’t see anything new for awhile.  My bad.  My TOTAL bad!  What I’ve grown to understand is that summer time is exceptionally busy.  I’m not trying to make excuses.  It’s just reality.

The UP side is that I’ve still been drinking wine and taking notes…well, except for an eight day hiatus just before I traveled down to California, but I’ll tell you all about that in my next post.  Other than that, I have a lot of content and I look forward giving you my general wine thoughts.  I also have a guest blogger lined up to tell of her trip to Opus One!

So, even though the last blog post was written eXACTLy five months ago to the date, I’m ready, willing and able to produce for you.  It’s football season, afterall, and things have started to slow down just a tad.

We spent a week in California recently, so look forward to a mini series about that trip, as we were in Temecula for a wedding, and visited five different wineries.  I also had the chance to taste a varietal I was not familiar with, Nero d’Avola which I look forward to writing about.  I have also had the opportunity to taste some wine from a winery that is doing GREAT things to help some great causes.

So get ready as they will start coming at you, rapid fire.  Until then, as always, you can reach me at drinkwine@generalwinethoughts.com or find me on Twitter as well as Facebook.  I hope you will and thanks for reading!  Until next time, bottoms UP!