Wine, Cheese, and Bloody Mary: A Romance-Language Horror Night

I started with a simple idea: put together an international evening with wine, cheese, and a horror movie. It eventually became a little tour of the Romance languages—French and Spanish wine, Italian cheese, and a Brazilian movie in Portuguese.

The wine and cheese brought some refinement. Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary brought exploding heads and possessed feces. Somehow, the combination made for an excellent evening.

The Tasting

The lineup was a 2024 Jean-Baptiste Duperray “Glou Glou” Beaujolais-Villages,

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Dog Incident

In which we talk about taking time to reset, migrate to talking about The Beckett Foundation, and then veer into a really touching local news story about a couple that saved a dog's life after a car accident.

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