The Pairs With Life Wine Blog

The Pairs With Life Wine Blog is the wine-soaked confessions of me, John Taylor: serial single father and author of the novel, Pairs With life. Yes, I’m talking in first-person, finally. Because this is how I talk in the blog. So that sorta makes sense. And yes, everything in this freaking website is called Pairs With Life, because branding. What can I say? By day, I’m the Director of Marketing for a Napa-based winery, so this whore-like corporate behavior follows me wherever I go. So, speaking of which, let’s talk about Categories.

Recent Posts

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How Do You Know You’re an adult?

I remember the exact moment I became an adult. Though in truth, it wasn't a moment, but rather a gru…

Three bottles of the best low price pinot noirs, the Tous Les Jour California Pinot Noir on a shelf underneath the Pairs With Life Cellars logo
The Best Low Price Pinot Noir? It’s One of My Favorite Things

Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat. I’m not one of those wine writers who sc…

A bottle of the 2017 Fogelson Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Coombsville, Napa Valley
Wine lovers Are All Polyamorous

How can polyamory not be complicated? Just dealing with one person—one friend, one lover, one spouse…

featured wine posts

Featured wine posts are the latest postings on the Pairs With Life Wine Blog. This doesn’t tell you anything about the content, only about how recent the post is. I’m trying to create two new posts every month, so regardless of whether it’s a super-wonky wine pairing post or something hopefully more entertaining, if it’s “Featured,” it’s new. New-er. New-ish. I also recommend that you sing up for my Newsletter, which you can do at the bottom of the page. It’s not really a Newsletter as much as it is a notification of new content. Plus announcements. And cool stuff. Ok, it’s totally a Newsletter. But it’s not spam.

Category: Kids Are Weird

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Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?

Hey, JT, Are you smarter than a fifth grader? The short answer is, no, though I would certainly rank…

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Daddy Juice

In the early 2000's, when my son was only five years old, we'd enjoy frequent trips to the local par…

Pairs Wit life and the toot fairy
The Tooth Fairy, Belief Systems and Other Myths

The last note my daughter wrote asked the Tooth Fairy what she did with all the teeth she collected.…

Wine Blog Categories

Wine Blog Categories are another thing entirely. I tried to create descriptive categories so you could sort between the wonky wine stuff and the not-wonky stuff. For the most part, the Wine Pairings category are all about What I’m Drinking on the podcast. These are wines that I’ve received from my sponsor, The Wine Spies. If you’re into knowing the brix of the grapes at the time of harvest, those are the blogs for you. If you want to know what I drink when I’m trying to keep the kids from burning the house down, try a different category.

Category: Weird Marriage

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Suburban Disappointment Syndrome

I recognize this despondency all too well. It’s Suburban Disappointment Syndrome, the utterly ironic…

10 Amazing Wine Hacks That Will Literally Change Your Life

Oh, wine. The mystique of your magical elixir has delighted us for thousands of years. You’ve inspir…

Vive la Difference

A month ago, I was honored to win The Monthly Wine Writing Challenge, and my award for doing so was …

Category: Wine and Sex

A bottle of the 2017 Fogelson Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Coombsville, Napa Valley
Wine lovers Are All Polyamorous

How can polyamory not be complicated? Just dealing with one person—one friend, one lover, one spouse…

Unhappy Sex Face
Unhappy Sex Face

It wasn’t a hookup. We had been on three dates over the period of a month, and had reached that oh-s…

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What Wine Pairs With A Lousy Boyfriend?

What wine pairs with a lousy boyfriend? I get asked for a lot of pairing advice, which also means I …

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