Hello nebulous group of esteemed readers. It's been far too long and I apologize for that. It horrifies me to think of the void you must have felt in your lives every time you pulled up Ask-Steve.com and discovered, to your aching dismay, that I hadn't posted a new entry. Please know that no matter how much time passes, no matter how good life gets, I'll always cringe when I think of the pain I've caused you during this time of blog juice drought.
So what brings you back now, you heartless bastard, you may ask. The answer may surprise you for it's sheer mundanity. What drew me back to post a long overdue installment was a black pug, a blissfully mediocre slice of pepperoni pizza and a generous pour of fully-functional red wine.
And with that, I'll end here so that I'll have the beginning of my next entry. And so the new era begins.








I picked up Wine Press Northwest magazine for the first time the other day at New Seasons Market. It's a great magazine covering, as the title describes, all things having to do with wine in the Pacific Northwest.
At least two-thirds of the page is taken up by an advertisement with only a narrow column on the right, running into the center fold, occupied by copy. Guess what they chose to squeeze in there? The article title reads:
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