Spiltwine

A bit late in posting this…but now it’s here, it’s golden!!!

1. Read more books– Goal: 3 books a month.
This is my most important resolution.  I have a sort of impulsive buy reaction when I see interesting books.  This reflex goes in to hyper-drive when said books are about wine and food (I won’t even go into my comic book buying impulses).  The result is a collection of 100+ tomes that have traveled with me across three countries and a countless number of dwellings, sadly some have never been read…in 2012 I plan to read through all my wine books.

my wine bookshelf

To help me along I will list all the books on a new tab “Read more wine books” and will be writing a review of each one. (FYI – I am currently reading Feiring’s naked wine and Goode & Harrop’s Authentic Wine).  Also, as a caveat to this, I plan not to buy any wine books for a while

2. Write more blog entries – Goal: 2 a week
Pretty self-explanatory – and yes I am counting this list as an entry.

3. Write more for other people – Goal: 2 features a month
I am very lucky to have my forte-nightly app column in the Santa Barbara News-Press (every other Thursday in Food section – next one Feb 2nd).  Besides that I need to be racking my brains for more in print or other people blog stories…hey pitch me if you think you’ve got something news-worthy enough — especially if it’s Santa Barbara or Central Coast related.

4. Do more random winery tastings– Goal: 3 tasting rooms a month
I have a plan here…and I am busting it out in 2012

5. Change my Twitter avatar – Goal: with something representing my life in wine
Below is the picture I am choosing.

6. Tidy up my tasting note taking
Please tell me everyone has this problem?  I am a messy lefty writer, I’m not in to the whole typing notes thing…just need to clean it up a bit.

Maybe I should take a calligraphy class?

7. Post more stuff to my tumblr and google+ accounts
I’ve had my tumblr thing for ages….now I’m going to do something with it. Ditto with google+