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Friday, Feb. 15

 

Last time, I discussed how to identify and understand wines by color, clarity and smell. Tasting is the most important part, of course, and there are some characteristics that will help explain why certain wines taste and feel different in your mouth.

I have been asked many times since last week’s column which wines are good to cellar and how to tell if a wine will age well or when a wine is ready to drink. There have been many books written about these questions, but to be honest, oftentimes there isn’t an exact answer or even a “right” answer. However, there are some guidelines to follow that might help give you some success.

This hurts. It hurts to lose a marquee company, and it hurts to lose hundreds of employees in town every day. It is especially painful to lose a company that’s grown up with the city throughout its entire history. It’s like losing a member of the family.

August marked the 75th anniversary of Social Security in America. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, and the program has remained through the decades as one of the only certainties for the American workforce.