While taking a bit of R&R in Port Stanley, Ontario I discover Quai du Vin Estate Winery in St. Thomas, Ontario quite near to the tiny town of Sparta. Yes there is signage to direct you there but don’t expect any concentration of wineries on Fruit Ridge Line. Instead you’ll see cornfields galore and damnContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Cornfield After Cornfield: Then Quai du Vin Estate Winery in St. Thomas”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS 2023 Wine: No Need to be Spooked by Bordeaux! The Branson Burger!
Yes, wines from Bordeaux can be enormously expensive beyond the purse strings of those who have to count their pesos. And they can be enormously complicated with classification, left bank, right bank, first growths and on and on. But there are many small producers offering wines at yes “bargain prices”. The EU is drowning inContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: No Need to be Spooked by Bordeaux! The Branson Burger!”
RKS Literature: A Swindler of a Man on the Run (Dickens)
“Shame, disappointment, and discomfiture gnawed at his heart: a constant apprehension of being overtaken or met – for he was groundlessly afraid even of travellers, who came towards him by the way he was going – oppressed him heavily. The same intolerable awe and dread that had come upon him in the night, returned unweakenedContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Swindler of a Man on the Run (Dickens)”
RKS Literature: A Hollow Woman in a Hollow World (Charles Dickens)
‘I am a woman.’ she said confronting him steadfastly, ‘who from her very childhood has been shamed and steeled. I have been offered and rejected, put up and appraised, until my very soul has sickened. I have not had an accomplishment or grace that might have been a resource to me, but it has beenContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Hollow Woman in a Hollow World (Charles Dickens)”
RKS 2023 Film: “Jules”: Of Ageism and Aliens
Who doesn’t like a good film about aliens arriving on earth and interacting with humans? “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”? “ET”? or Donald Trump running for President? We have a great one here with seniors in the lead roles and with ageism in our society what I think just might be the movie ofContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Jules”: Of Ageism and Aliens”
RKS 2023 Wine: Another Try of Pinot Noir from Ontario
Hoping not to be stoned to death by Ontario Pinot Noir fundamentalists as far as Canadian Pinot Noir goes it takes a back seat to British Columbia, particularly the Okanagan. But refusing to shut doors we venture on to a Magnotta 2017 Limited Edition Pinot Noir from Niagara. Aroma: Not one of those light, elegantContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Another Try of Pinot Noir from Ontario”
Pet Ownership: That Nasty Contractual Clause You Don’t Want to Read
Yes, as a lawyer I am familiar with contractual provisions. There are many clauses one encounters in a commercial contract: limitation of liability, indemnification, no liability for special and consequential damages and literally hundreds more. In fact, when we picked our West Highland Terrier Dylan from the breeder some 15 years ago there was aContinue reading “Pet Ownership: That Nasty Contractual Clause You Don’t Want to Read”
RKS Literature: Hatred of the Boss (Charles Dickens)
‘I tell you all’, said the manager, ‘that your hypocrisy and meekness – that all the hypocrisy and meekness of this place – is not worth that to me,’ snapping his thumb and finger, ‘and that I see through it as if it were air! There is not a man employed here, standing between myselfContinue reading “RKS Literature: Hatred of the Boss (Charles Dickens)”
Memories of Dylan Stephen: A Westie Now in The Land Beyond: Time to Leave Earth and Back to The Land Beyond
OK I have had my forty days on earth after I died and at midnight I am off to The Land Beyond. I was on earth to try and help those who mourn me by the little mind control I was given for my short stay on earth. It has been most difficult. I seeContinue reading “Memories of Dylan Stephen: A Westie Now in The Land Beyond: Time to Leave Earth and Back to The Land Beyond”
RKS 2023 Film: “The Battle for Chile”: Part 3 “Popular Power”
This is the third and last part of the seminal and historic Chilean documentary from Patricio Guzmán. Salvador Allende was elected as the President of Chile in 1970 and died in a coup in 1973 which was actively supported and financed by the United States government. “The Battle for Chile” offers viewers a front rowContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “The Battle for Chile”: Part 3 “Popular Power””
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