We finished with the first two vintages of Burt's new wine (crafted after the expiration of his noncompete clause), the 2008 and 2009 Morning Dew Ranch Pinot, from a vineyard he planted in the Anderson Valley in Mendocino County, a very promising region for Pinot that, when he first bought in a decade ago, was almost as obscure as the Russian River Valley had been.
The political discussion will center on the automatic spending cuts put in place by the sequester clause of the 2011 Budget Control Act, the expiration of the Bush tax cuts coupled with other tax increases, the debt ceiling, and entitlement reform, among other things.