I spent the weekend in Alexander Valley visiting wineries around Healdsburg. Full updates will be posted this week, but I wanted to whine about airport security.

I shipped most of my wine back, usually buying three or four bottles per winery. There was one winery from which I only got one bottle. I didn't want to check my bag, so I wrapped the bottle up and tried to slip it past security...of course it got caught and I had to check.

All of which was fine, but I was at SFO, which has several places to buy wine. I asked the TSA reps what the difference is between my wine and the wine sold in the shops. Their response is that the wine in the airport shops is scanned.

I smelled BS, so I asked the owner of one of the wine shops if her wine is specially scanned before it is brought in...and, of course, the answer was no.