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Sanford’s entry level Pinot Noir is a wine I’ve enjoyed tremendously and reliably over the years. They’re one of the wineries featured in Sideways and although Rick Sanford departed long ago, the wines continue to remind me why I still like them each time I taste them. After being purchased by Terlato, Rick Sanford evidently didn’t like the lack of commitment shown towards organic farming and started Alma Rosa. His name remains on the label and as with a lot of things prices have risen noticeably over the last 10 years.

Over the holidays I had a bunch of nice wines out to share with family. None drew more praise than a bottle of 2007 Sanford Pinot Noir.

Here are my notes on the 2007:

For me, this wine finds that elusive intersection between tasting really good and being high quality. Slightly darker than your average Pinot Noir. I get rich dark cherries, ripe strawberries, and slightly sweet baking spices on the nose. A really enjoyable mouth feel – ample presence but silky smooth. Higher than average viscosity: It’s rich but has tremendous finesse. Never gets heavy. A real beauty. At 5 years of age, this is showing very nicely.

I liked it a lot. Guests went so gonzo for it I don’t see how I could score it any lower. I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many collective raves for a wine from this crowd [that appreciates wine].

93/100 WWP: Outstanding

It’s hard to find this wine south of $30 regardless of vintage. In looking around a bit I found an amazing price on the 2009 vintage. 2009 is a great vintage for California Pinot and given the track record of this producer I’m willing to take a chance on buying some without tasting it first.

The price is $20.99/bottle at Esquin Wines, eligible for 5% off a straight 12 bottle case. Some retailers sell half bottles for more! (they assure me these are full bottles) Shipping costs vary depending on your location but top out at $44 for a case shipped to the east coast (they don’t ship to MA, that would be illegal). $23.60 fully loaded or less depending on where you’re located.

Esquin is based in Seattle and has a sister e-commerce site at MadWine.com. This wine is a newsletter special and isn’t available online. The best way to order is old school over the phone:

Esquin Wine Merchants at 888-682-9463

Deal hound friends will note that this wine doesn’t show up on wine-searcher.com without Wine Searcher Pro. Pro adds listings for retailers who don’t sponsor their listings on Wine-Searcher and the ability to create email alerts for wines matching your desired criteria. For example you can create a listing for “2009 Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir that ships to MA for less than $60″. That search might never turn up anything but it’s worth a shot!

I’d love if you subscribed to The Wellesley Wine Press if you like hearing about wine deals like this.

Question of the Day: What do you think of this deal? Find any other good ones lately?

 

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Jessica Biel knows that when it comes to staying fit (and man, oh, man does she look fit!), it’s all about making workouts fun, challenging and never boring. Because of this, Biel loves doing a variety of workouts and is always trying new things. Read on for the Jessica Biel workout!

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1. Circuit strength training. Those toned arms don’t come without some heavy lifting! Biel makes the most of her time in the gym and with her trainer by doing a series of back-to-back moves that build muscle and burn calories!

2. Running. When it comes to cardio, Biel is a running fan. No matter where she is filming, she can always squeeze in a quick jog or some sprinting intervals for a workout on the road.

3. Sports. One to always keep things fresh, Biel likes to play just about any sport, including football with friends and volleyball on the beach.

4. Hiking with her pups. For a fun and refreshing outdoor workout, Biel enjoys taking her pups out for hikes on the trails in Los Angeles. A fun workout outside of the gym that also keeps her pets fit!

5. Plyometrics. Plyometrics like jump-squats and jumping lunges aren’t easy, but they do wonders for boosting fitness, which is why Biel does them. The results of these workouts certainly speak for themselves! Biel looks great and so fit and toned!

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As I stood in the check-out line the other day, I couldn’t help but notice the headlines of all the magazines around me: “Slim Down This Summer;” “Lose 10 Pounds;” “Get Stronger, Leaner, Faster;” “Tone Your Thighs;” “Kiss Cellulite Goodbye.” Screw that, I thought. What’s wrong with the way I am?

As women, we’re constantly bombarded with these you-need-to-improve messages, making us feel like we’re not good enough. Like there’s something fundamentally wrong with the way we are. It’s become a cultural norm to inundate us with bullshit messages that equate happiness and femininity with losing weight and having a “perfect” body. And for those of us who are athletes, we’re constantly challenged with the messages that we must do more, work harder … all so we can get better. Some of the advice is fine if you indeed want to change. But what if you don’t?

Yesterday I was at the pool putting in laps for my morning mile. When I stopped to adjust my goggles, the girl next to me (let’s call her an acquaintance and often athletic rival), asked why I was swimming so much lately. (Normally, I’m a twice-a-week swimmer, but given my unrelenting Achilles injury, I’ve had to drop all running and cycling from my repertoire for the time being, which puts me at the pool every morning for cardio.) After I explained my situation, she said, “Well, maybe you’ll get better and faster now.” WTF? What if I don’t necessarily want to get better and faster? I already consider myself a decent swimmer (good, but not great); I can do 1.2-mile open water swims for a half-Ironman (and beat this girl’s butt at most of them). So what’s wrong with the way I swim now? I wanted to ask. Instead, I pulled my goggles back down and swam away. But I kept stewing over the question all day, which made me realize this is probably a much bigger issue.

Every day, we women are told we’re not good enough. Don’t believe me? Watch any commercial, read any magazine, look at any billboard. You’ll see ads promising to help you “get happier, richer, thinner NOW.” They’re all trying to capitalize on the fact that women need help, when in fact, many times we don’t. We’re perfectly fine just the way we are, thank you very much. Maybe we should stop letting these people dictate how we feel about ourselves. Maybe we should stop letting others try to tell us we aren’t slim enough, toned enough, strong enough or fast enough.

This is not to say that we don’t have room for improvement. I know I do, and given the fact that 25 percent of the American population is considered obese, others do too. The point is that all of this pressure to become better all the time leaves us no room to just “be.” It’s no wonder that 50 percent of adults walk around stressed out all the time. (Which, incidentally, doesn’t help at all with self-improvement of any kind.)

Our parents’ generation wasn’t labeled as “broken” in the mid-1900s. For the most part, they held the same jobs for much of their lives, drove the same car, lived in the same house and kept the same friends. They didn’t walk around stressed out; many of them were happy and satisfied, despite the lack of a quest for something new, different, or better.

In her book, “Bodies,” psychoanalyst Susie Orbach claims we now see our bodies as projects — not places to live, as she explained to The New York Times:

What I am seeing is franticness about having to get a body. I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

She says we are at war with ourselves and our lives. I think she’s right. And I think outside influences are to blame.

So, to all the media and people (including the girl at the pool) out there trying to improve us: SHUT UP. We don’t always have to be better. Being good is sometimes good enough.

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My extended family is mostly women, and a lot of us share the same body type. We are not a particularly tall people, nor of ample bosom. What we lack up top, however, we make up for in hips. Most of us also have very prominent rear-ends. It’s a body type that can start out in life bringing all the boys to the yard but, without proper maintenance, it all goes south — literally. And that, my friends, is what scares me.

In high school, all but one of my mother and her four sisters were very thin (the eldest sister was considered quite chubby in high school, we’re told, though in photos she looks perfectly average-sized by today’s standards). Oh, they always had booties — in our family, it’s known as the ‘Bronner Butt,’ after some generously derrièred great- great- somethings of ours — and wide hips, but with tiny waists the effect becomes more narrow-hourglass than pear. There are photos of them visiting relatives in California, and I don’t think my mom is wearing a shirt that covers her stomach in a single one (halters and bell-bottoms as far as the eye could see!-this was the 1970s). Marching around in sequined majorette leotards and white go-go boots, their legs look as long as their ironed-straight hair.

But the average American woman puts on the equivalent of one pound per year as she ages, and they are no exception; all have put on at least that much since high school, if not more, and it mostly shows up around their hips, thighs, and lower extremities. What’s been strange — like my own small-scale longitudinal study — is to see this process accelerated in my generation. While my mom and aunts remained slim and trim well into their thirties, some of their children began gaining weight after high school. I hate my own body in high school photos, though I was considered thin by everyone around me. My hips and thighs look gargantuan to me now. I know this is neurotic — at about 20 pounds heavier than I am now in those photos, the extra weight is noticeable, but hardly extreme. There are men who like my leaner body better, but there are always men who prefer a little extra — I suppose there’s no other way to say it — junk in the trunk.

At 5-foot-6-inches I’m one of the taller of our family’s 12 female grandchildren, and I’ve seemed to inherit more of my dad’s genetic heritage than my mother’s: crooked spine, curly hair and fast metabolism. I still worry sometimes about the dramatic Bronner butt transformations I’ve seen, but by this point in life, I’ve channeled my fear of metabolic fate into a positive focus on healthy living and nutrition (instead of obsessive dieting). Heredity is not destiny, or so the saying goes. And it’s not as if healthy eating is a strong point in my extended family, even when they were younger (my mom says in high school she’d go all day on a Payday and a Coke). A certain amount of weight gain may be inevitable as people age, but as recent studies on long-term weight change have found, it’s also heavily correlated to eating certain types of food and beverages, or engaging in certain habits or behaviors. In other words, habits trump heredity? Well, let’s hope.

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Despite the increases in childhood obesity in the United States, Americans are technically consuming less sugar than they did about a decade earlier, according to a new report.

And two-thirds of this decrease is due to people drinking fewer sugar-sweetened sodas.

The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, shows that the percentage of our diets that is comprised of sugar dropped from 18 percent between 1999 and 2000 to 14.6 percent between 2007 and 2008.

“We were surprised to see that there was a substantial reduction over the years,” study researcher Dr. Jean Welsh, of Emory University in Atlanta, told Reuters.

Researchers analyzed data from a study of 42,316 people ages 2 and older to see how much added sugar — that is, sugars that are not naturally included in foods, like fruit — they consumed.

To continue reading this article, visit The Huffington Post’s health and wellness destination site, Healthy Living.

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I first started experimenting with intuitive eating about five years ago. When I heard “eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re full,” I thought “Genius!” What could be better than finally giving myself permission to eat whatever I want?!” I also thought “How stupid do you think I am? If I could do that, I wouldn’t need intuitive eating!” (Clearly, I still had some internal work to do.)

Not one to be easily dissuaded, though, I decided to give this trusting-yourself-to-eat-right thing a try. And eat I did. I just never got to the intuitive part, or the satiety part, or the listening to my body part, or the — well, you get the point. After 65 diets and about 20 years, any kind of intuition about food just wasn’t in my toolbox. That was so much the case, in fact, that I didn’t even realize that I didn’t get it. I just did my best and fumbled along. I considered the idea of “listening to my body” to be either a) a bunch of new-age mumbo jumbo, b) a diet in disguise, c) something completely beyond the scope of possibility for me or d) workable once I put some rules in place (aka, made it a diet).

I like to keep my options open, so I played with some variation of all four of those for a while. But I’d say my favorite was option d. After all, planning a new diet is something I’m quite familiar with. It’s comfy, and it always seemed to have that new-car smell: “On Monday, things are gonna change — seriously this time!”

After a bit, I pretty much forgot about the tiny intuitive part of this that I was still hanging onto and slipped back into dieting full-time. (I this sounds like a full-time profession, it sort of was — at least if you consider how much time and energy I put into it.) Somewhat by accident, though, (or maybe not), I ran back into these ideas. I was reading fabulous blogs about loving your body, intuitive eating and Health at Every Size, and I was starting to consider writing my own blog. I gathering information about my body like a mad curvy scientist.

Then, recently, it hit me: Intuitive eating means eating what works for my body! (Yes, I realize this is perhaps the most obvious sentence ever written.) It’s not boundary-less and it’s also not riddled with “rules.” It’s a middle way, which as someone who has lived most of her life in the black/white zone of dieting, comes as quite a relief.

What I realized is that the information my body is giving me — via energy levels, illness, or sheer pleasure — is what I’m supposed to be listening to. I’ve always known this on a surface level, but it took me much longer to feel it deep in my bones and belly and skin. For example, I’m allergic to garlic (it gives me a crazy migraine within 15 minutes), so I just don’t eat it. I rarely have a desire to, either, because my body gives me immediate feedback that it’s a very unwelcome house guest. Now I realize that eating the intuitive way (or for me, the “Anna way”) involves looking for and listening to more feedback like this (although usually less dramatic).

Eating the [your name here] way is an ongoing process of tuning in and learning what works for you. Sometimes this changes, and that’s okay. In fact, it’s expected and welcome.

Who knew that intuitive eating would bring me right back to me? (Well, besides everyone.)

Anna Guest-Jelley is the Founder of Curvy Yoga, which is all about lovin’ the body you have today. Through Curvy Yoga, she offers yoga designed to fit the bodies of people of all shapes, sizes and abilities as well as messages of body positivity and meeting yourself where you are-both on and off the mat. Connect with her on Facebook and Twitter.

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