I am very discerning about Ontario Rieslings and I don’t want to stir things up about why. I have much better luck with British Columbia Rieslings. Trust Mayhem to cause a bit of mayhem with its Riesling as not only was it aged in stainless steel but neutral French oak. EEKS! Oak and Riesling! DoesContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Okanagan’s Mayhem 2020 Riesling and My Treatment for Riesling Hesitation Syndrome”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS Film: PBS Documentary “American Reckoning” Unpleasant but Necessary Viewing
“American Reckoning” is a mostly uncomfortable documentary about the emergence of the 1960’s Civil Rights movement of the “negro” in the United Sates of the 1960’s as fleshed out through the 1967 murder of NAACP activist Wharlest Jackson Sr. killed by a car bomb in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi. Wharlest Sr. was in someContinue reading “RKS Film: PBS Documentary “American Reckoning” Unpleasant but Necessary Viewing”
“Travels to a Different Time” :August 4, 1971; Bled, Yugoslavia: Greasy Eats and Food Flies in Anger!
Out for dinner of greasy stuffed green peppers. Mom lit up a cancer stick so I didn’t talk to her for awhile and she took a tantrum and said, “All right Robert if you continue to be such a child I will leave you the money and go home.” Who is the child here? ThenContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” :August 4, 1971; Bled, Yugoslavia: Greasy Eats and Food Flies in Anger!”
RKS Wine: Portugal’s Alentejano Goes Beyond Indigenous and My Thoughts On A Corked Wine
In addition to Portuguese indigenous grapes Alentejano wines often throw into the blend some “international” grapes such as Syrah, Alicante Bouschet or Merlot. For example the 2016 Flor de Maio has in its blend of Trincadeira and Aragonez some Syrah. It is garnet in color. As for aroma there is black cherry, ripe strawberry, chocolateContinue reading “RKS Wine: Portugal’s Alentejano Goes Beyond Indigenous and My Thoughts On A Corked Wine”
RKS Poetry: “Canada’s Trucker Terrorists”
Canada’s Trucker Terrorists A sick and tired of it all populist movement mushroomsTV dinner eating good Canadians huddle over their President’s Choice farelistening to a Prime Minister and a mayor of Ottawagathering “intelligence” about the “insurrectionists”cutting off gas supplies to the terrorist truckersthe biggest threat to democracy in Canada they howla Trumpian conspiracy full ofContinue reading “RKS Poetry: “Canada’s Trucker Terrorists””
“Travels to a Different Time” : August 2, 1971: Krk, Bled Yugoslavia: What a Long Day: A Never-Ending Journey
Up and at em on Mom’s birthday. Up at 4:15 a.m. to catch a 5 a.m. bus to Rijeka. On our bus and groggy! Half an hour later we all heard a big CRACK. Bus breakdown. So we headed back on the bus on the other side of the road back to Krk. Again overcrowdingContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : August 2, 1971: Krk, Bled Yugoslavia: What a Long Day: A Never-Ending Journey”
“Travels to A Different Time” : July 30, 1971: Rab and Krk, Yugoslavia: Thank You Tourist Office for a Murderous Day: Purse Snatching Attempt
Today was complete murder. The tourist office informed us we could get a ferry to the island of Krk at 5 a.m. so we were up at 3:30 a.m. The 4:30 bus to the docks never showed up as the tourist office advised us it would. Thank you tourist office. So changing plans we tookContinue reading ““Travels to A Different Time” : July 30, 1971: Rab and Krk, Yugoslavia: Thank You Tourist Office for a Murderous Day: Purse Snatching Attempt”
RKS Film: “Give or Take”: Death and Self Realization
It is almost inevitable that a death in the family brings about a streak of self realization. It can also tear apart a family or reunite it or even a bit of both. The American film “Give or Take” examines bereavement and its effect on family and friends. Kenneth dies in Cape Cod leaving aContinue reading “RKS Film: “Give or Take”: Death and Self Realization”
“Travels to a Different Time”: July 27,28,29 1971: Rab, Yugoslavia: Woken Up By The Air Raid Siren, Tiring of Low Quality Meals and Robert Visits the Psychiatric Hospital!
July 27, 1971: Woken up by an air raid siren. Are the capitalists launching a nuclear attack? We had dinner at the Jadran Hotel. More greasy goulash. Thoroughly disgusting! July 28, 1971: Went out for dinner with a couple of German girls from Frankfurt to the Continental Hotel. What a lousy dinner. July 29, 1971:Continue reading ““Travels to a Different Time”: July 27,28,29 1971: Rab, Yugoslavia: Woken Up By The Air Raid Siren, Tiring of Low Quality Meals and Robert Visits the Psychiatric Hospital!”
“Travels to a Different Time” :July 26, 1971: Rab, Yugoslavia: The Man with The Revolting Pig Barfy Cough, A Lousy Filthy Rotten Beach and Up Close and Personal with a Former German POW
I was woken out of a good sleep by Mom rattling the key in the door and a revolting pig barfy cough from someone across the hall. We caught a 10 a.m. bus to Barbot and a new beach which was a filthy rotten and disgusting beach. We stayed 30 minutes without entering the lessContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” :July 26, 1971: Rab, Yugoslavia: The Man with The Revolting Pig Barfy Cough, A Lousy Filthy Rotten Beach and Up Close and Personal with a Former German POW”
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