Tuesday Tips: PS I Love You

A huge benefit of being a writer is being invited to write about topics you love. This summer I get to research and write about wine!

Which leads me to today’s tip: if you’re struggling on a writing project, find what it is that you love about it and start from there. Be effusive! Start with what’s easy, warm up and go from there. You don’t have to begin at the beginning!

For the past three weeks, I’ve been traveling in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California doing research for my project about wine and family and sustainability (and I sure am coming home with some great stories!).

Last Monday I attended the 80th birthday dinner for Jim Concannon at Concannon Winery in Livermore. Last Tuesday I attended the 9th annual Petite Sirah Symposium and tasted through dozens of amazing wines. During last week, I did a lot of writing and some tasting in Sonoma and plan to do some more in Santa Cruz. Read more about it all over at Wine Predator.

I head home tomorrow! I hope you are having a wonderful summer!

It is unfortunate but true that people are typically unfamiliar with the marvels of Petite Sirah. Hence the need for a Petite Sirah advocacy group like PS I Love You and for events like Dark & Delicious. I’m fortunate that I was turned on to Petite Sirah back in my days working at Ridge and that I put a bottle of Storrs PS away in th … Read More

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