Posts Written OnJuly 18, 2006

Well, dear readers, it appears that the LENNDEVOURS team is going to be expanding — on or around February 1, 2007 to be more specific. That’s right, the Thompsons are expecting and the woman behind the man behind the blog is doing quite well following her 12-week sonogram. Currently the little guy/girl is somewhere between the size of a fig and a lime and growing every single day. Needless to say, we are beyond happy/excited/thrilled. Of course, it has also changed things here in the Thompson household quite a bit already. As Nena nears the end of the first trimester,…

When Rich and Soraya Pisacano opened their Roanoke Vineyards tasting room in the fall of 2004, their only Roanoke-labeled wine was a stellar 2000 merlot that is — sadly — long gone. To fill in the tasting room menu, they poured wines from Atwater Estate Vineyards in the Finger Lakes and Wolffer Estate on the South Fork, where Rich serves as vineyard manager. What started with that lone merlot has grown into an impressive portfolio of wines, including two distinctly different Bordeaux-style blends, a hard-to-find cabernet sauvignon, a fresh-but-intriguing chardonnay and an extremely popular rose. Rich has been tending vines…