My name is Patrick Alexander and for the past forty years I have lived in Coral Gables, Miami, Florida where, among other things, I teach wine appreciation classes – hence the name of this site, GablesWine.com. I am also a writer.

I have just published Coral Gables: The First Hundred Years to celebrate the centennial of my adopted hometown in April 2025.

My previous book, released in September 2023, BOOMER, tells the story of the ‘Baby Boom’ generation: it’s about ‘old folk’ like me, who’ve lived through eight decades and crossed over two centuries and two millennia: from Churchill to Trump, and from the Beatles to Taylor Swift. It’s a fun and fascinating story!

Other recent books include  Building Paradise, the history of Miami and South Florida, and The Booklovers’ Guide to Wine which is based on the wine classes I have taught for almost twenty years.

My books of fiction include three novels set in an imaginary, and not very well disguised version of Coral Gables – entitled The Greenhaven Trilogy.

My first book, back in 2007, Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time, was a study of the French novelist Marcel Proust, and in June 2022 I released A Dance to Lost Time  comparing Proust’s seven volume novel In Search of Lost Time, with Anthony Powell’s twelve volume novel A Dance to the Music of Time.

All my books are available as paperbacks on Amazon, e-books on Kindle or as audiobooks on Audible.

When not writing, teaching, or writing grumpy-old-man letters to the Miami Herald, I conduct historic tours for the Coral Gables Museum and the famous Biltmore Hotel as well as maintaining order as starter on the historic Granada Golf Course.