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[uk elephant]

for a good Malbec, try the Santa Julia. I've also had a couple of other really good ones, but of course can never remember the name. Just as I can never remember the name of any music I really like or people I've known for less than a decade or two or good books I've read. Just bad with names in general.

[Nanci]

I keep a written wine journal, and also have everything I've ever tasted in my Palm Pilot, so I can "remember" what I loved/didn't love when I'm at the grocery store.

[DrBee]

I feel like I'm getting a mini wine lesson. This is great!

[bikerz]

I love Cab Franc - it can be hard to find in a bottle all on it's own. A winery out here in Sonoma called Gundlach-Bundschu was one of the first ones to make a Cab Franc and it is was great. Not sure if they are still making that - I haven't seen it around, now that I think of of it.

I had a great Pinot (2001 Robert Stemmler Carneros) on Saturday - I had gone off Pinots for a while, but this was a great reminder of how good they can be.

[maillotpois]

Abacela in Oregon makes both a great Malbec and a great Cab Franc. Hard to find, but well worth the search.

[Nanci]

Luckily, cab franc is something that can grow up in Georgia- so a lot of the wineries up there grow it. The only commercial winery I can find locally is Ironstone, which, luckily, does a good job with it.

[Nanci]

Koko and Buttercup are doing well- living through going cold turkey on the grocery store lettuce. Yesterday afternoon, I thought I saw the Good One, Koko, in the nutritious pellet slurry bowl, but it was really Buttercup, eating like crazy! I took Koko out to graze in the yard for the first time. I don't think they've been out before. He ate dead and live grass, dead oak leaves, little yellow clovers, and did lots of deep sniffing of everything. He had such a great time I brought Buttercup out too, and, predictably, she sat with her giant front feet in front of her face and refused to come out...That's why she's the Bad One!! I hope some one on one handling will help her overcome her fear of everything. Koko is completely different- he climbs, he likes to be petted, he runs all over the yard, he eats everything.