Hello and Happy Friday! I've been looking forward to sending you this email for some time. After something like ten years, I am bidding adieu to the format knows as "Jazz & Juice" -- the oblique Snoop Dogg reference has had its day, and more than that, my writing wants to breathe a little more freely. So with all the implications of oxygenation, expansion and enhancement intended, this newsletter is now called The Decant. And, since people seem to be going to Substack for good reads, I'll be...

Hi! A little something different for you this week! If you’d like to skip this unusual musing and get right to the philanthropic bike ride I’m doing, you can go straight to the bottom, or here. Thanks for reading! Juice I have to by honest, dear reader – I’ve had a lot of messed-up wine in the last month. It has left me feeling puzzled (and pairing-less) but also grateful for the deeper investigations into winemaking and culture those sips catalyzed. I’m mostly interested in finding beauty,...

Hello! Hope you've been faring well this month -- and that this pairing rounds out your February with a great sip and sounds. I know I loved piecing this together for you. Enjoy! “...and there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher...