GRAPE EXPECTATIONS
Wine: 2018 Reata Three-county Pinot Noir by Jamieson Ranch Vineyards
Price: $18.99 (temporary reduction from $21.99)
Availability: Vito’s Wine Bar, Beverage Barn, Midway Market, 1837 Wine & Spirits, Aerial Wine Boutique, Kingy’s Beverage Drive-thru, Grain + Grape, and Apple Valley Golf Course
Aroma: complex aromatics, including American oak, giving way to red cherries
Flavor: brilliant color; full-flavored as well as full-bodied, with suggestions of a mix of stone fruit; nicely astringent finish with good acid balance
Notes: This California-heft pinot noir, drawn from grapes grown in San
Benito, Monterey and Sonoma counties, will accompany roasts as well as pastas with cream or red sauces, and aged cheeses.
— Jon Christensen, Dispatch wine reviewer
jac@iwaynet.net
ACROSS 1 “Something’s —
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6 Baby’s call
10 Left, on a liner
11 Donates
12 Play, as a banjo
13 Arm’s length
14 Flying toy
15 Grand Canal
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16 Outback runner
17 Conk out
18 — Palmas
19 Being a slowpoke
22 Incline
23 Corn units
26 Warding off
29 Dieter’s no-no
32 Spring month
33 Dove call
34 Response to a joke
36 Hamlet
37 Repairer, in slang
38 Blackjack call
39 Brighten
40 Change
41 City on the Truckee
42 Wherewithal
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1 Rubber ring
2 Best
3 Dungeon doings
4 Faithful
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Someone is expecting you to pull a rabbit out of your hat, and can you blame them? You’ve done this trick before to astonishing effect. What’s in it for you?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll get props. These are probably deserved, but you won’t feel that way. Even if you think you haven’t earned this respect and admiration, don’t deflect it. A simple thank you is all that’s needed.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Go with the momentum. Resist
the urge to make a thing perfect or start over the “right” way... this is just fear talking. Keep going; you’ll be able to build on what you have.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). There’s the reason why you like each other, and then there’s the real reason why you like each other, and they are seldom the same reason. The relationship will thrive in awareness and service of the real reason.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The title of a poem by Paige Lewis reads, “In the Hands of Borrowers, Objects Are Twice as Likely to Break.” The notion holds true today, so be neither a borrower nor a lender.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You are needed for your talents. In some ways, you are indispensable. And while it feels good to do something that another cannot, it’s also a lot of responsibility that could get burdensome if held for too long.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It’s absolutely brilliant to have something, and it’s absolutely brilliant to not have it. Each is its own kind of brilliance. Not worrying about a loss or gain... that’s liberation.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Now, more so than last week, you get attached to the thing you do routinely. Use this to your advantage by adding that one thing you want to be a part of your daily life.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Someone you admire is having a regular roller coaster of a time lately. Following someone so unpredictable is an adventure that, in a weird way, makes you feel grounded by comparison.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). What clear and poignant observations have you — and now for someone to tell them to... it’s true they would be wasted on someone close to you. For now, preserve and save them just for you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Animals don’t have leisure time, because they have no delineation between what they have to do and get to do. It’s all just what they’re doing. You’ll benefit from an animalistic approach, reducing mental noise caused by definitions.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There are aspects of you, caused by your sensitivity, that you sometimes want to change. There’s nothing wrong with these parts of you, but they make certain situations more difficult.
YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY (Feb. 24). You didn’t think it was a burden at the time, and yet a responsibility will come to its natural ending place, and suddenly, you’re free to enter an era of discovery and exploration. It’s as though the color dial has been turned up in your worldview and life comes at you with overdue vividness and excitement. Cancer and Capricorn adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 18, 44, 38 and 9.