Max Koch Uncorked

Wine-soaked adventures through a twisted life…

Rex Pickett

A Very Special Gift

My very dear, very generous friend, Nicole, AKA Green Girl, recently hooked me up with a very SPECIAL gift. Turns out her sister works with the great and immensely talented Rolfe Kent, who provided the score…one of my all-time favorites, in fact…to Alexander Payne’s now legendary film, Sideways. I’m telling you, not a trip to California Wine Country […]

“Sideways” the NOVEL

Stunningly enough, I had never read Rex Pickett’s 2004 novel of “Sideways” until the beginning of this year. I think I avoided it for so long because I was so hopelessly smitten by the film adaptation, I didn’t feel I wanted to cheat on it by reading the book (the movie’s in my Top 5 of […]