Feminine Art In Motion 3/12/10 As I Tasted Their Two Dry Red Judean Hills Wines

I was blown away a few minutes ago when I reviewed these pictures of Danielle and Rosa a few minutes ago when they came to taste us on their two dry red wines from the Agur in the Judean Hills of Israel. The wines were amazing and I feel that the energy and the excitement, the motion- action and playfulness and pure joy captured here in blurred lights and multiplied wine bottles and ceiling lights from above is pretty inspiring.

You have to enlarge the pictures of your monitor screen to really capture some of the nuances and expressions and the juxtapositions as bottles and both Rosa and Danielle moved as they poured wine or tasted it.




I will finish this as I get a chance this weekend. This in-store sampling of wines was just this past week on the 12th of March, 2010 I believe in Washington D.C. I will add again more this weekend as I am able. In the meantime enjoy these pictures all by themselves. Cheers, TONY




This blog is more about the " art " and my appreciation of " the feminine beauty " around me as I sampled the two wines with Rosa and with Danielle. It's also about the liquid motion that reflects the liquid excitement, too in the red wines, like liquid red blood that got mixed together over time - that I tasted here. How could I not be inspired?!? I still am as I look back at these pictures.




As this blog is about the art of all of this ( I am an artist myself ) I will not mention any specifics about the wines here. If you are interested in that aspect as well please go to : chatwine.blogspot.com.




This blog is also meant as a testament of my appreciation as a man and as an artist of both Danielle and Rosa and how much pleasure it brought me on this afternoon to taste wines in their company. Please Danielle and Rosa do not take offense to any of these pictures. I think they tell a wonderful story about this moment that we three shared along with Ravi and Chris that also tasted. Cheers and I hope you enjoy this blog and that it makes you feel good and brings you some joy and some cheer, too. Take care and stay-tuned for more ...

My Art Moment Inspired By Both Vittorio and Roberta Navacchia, Owners Of Italian Winery TRE MONTI in Romaggna, Mon. Feb 22, 2010

This was a very special moment indeed that I spent with owners Roberta and Vittorio Navacchia of the Ita;ian winery in Romagne called TRE MONTI on Monday, February 22nd, 2010.




Here are just a very few of the pictures so far that I took with my Canon digital camera that I love for it's size, capabilities and convenience.

Sotirs Bafitis that works now for VOILA Collection wine imports called and asked if he could stop by. I said : " Of course. " as I always do unless there is an absolute emergency.




Pictured here so far are some of the quick portrait sketches that I drew at the end of our wonderful visit of each of Roberta and Vittorio.

I have included other pictures to give a greater sense to this moment and will still add some to flesh this story out as best as I can.




Stay-tuned for more. It's already Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at 10:00 AM here at my home in northern Virginia on a sunny, bright and soon to be warm in the 60's day. I'm driving now to my mom's to take here and my brother out to lunch to celebrate her 81'st birthday. Happy Birthday, Mom. I love you.




As you can see by my writing that I embrace wholeheartedly this casual format called blogging. It's not all business unless you refer to life as the " business of life ."




Cheers, TONY


As you can see from these photos that both Roberta and Vittorio are shown here with their wine, the wine bottles, the wines being poured into my Reidel wine glass, etcetera ... all the things that come to gether to help give a better picture of whom they are.

Portrait Sketches Of Winemakers/Owners ( Marie Albrecht of LUCIEN ALBRECHT, Orschwihr, ) February, 2010 Here In Cleveland Park, Washington D.C.Recent

These portrait sketches I did very quickly this past Tuesday, February 22nd, 2010 at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits where I manage the wine department. I was meeting Marie Albrecht of the wine house in Orschwihr, Alsace, France ( LUCIEN ALBRECHT ) for the first time - having met her father at Vidalia restaurant about a year and a half ago for lunch. This was a fun visit/ wine-tasting in the store and it was fun for me to make these quickly and give them to her along with the four poems ( chatpoetry.blogspot.com ) that I had written anticipating this first meeting. It was a ll marvelous and serndipitous and I think a good moment for the two of us as well as Arielle Monaco that brought her to the store. Cheers and enjoy these sketches that she and I are holding up : three in all. I only wish that I had time to do more. La prochaine fois, j'espere ... TONY

Snow Is Art! Feb. 10th, 2010

Snow Pictures 2/5/2010 : Being Chased By The Snow Storm On This Evening As I Left Work @ 8 PM ....

Here I am being chased by the snow storm of last Friday, February 5th, 2010 and scared and afraid and exhilarated!


This was the start of a beautiful thing for me : three day's off from work at home in northern Virginia...




There is a certain art and poetry in all these pictures and I hope that you see and enjoy them as I do .... cheers, TONY