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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Sex and the Simple Red Wine |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 10:30 pm |
| Tags: Curmudgeon, Wine Wine Wine |
| about it irks my inner wine geek. Whenever one of the four main women orders a cocktail, she goes into specifics: "Get me a Cosmopolitan" or "This is a Staten Island Ice Tea." But when she orders wine, she's vague: "I'd like a glass of red wine" or "Over a glass of white wine and some salmon, Charlotte listened to Trey talk." I can |
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| Tablas Creek Talks Closures |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 2:04 pm |
| Tags: Wine Wine Wine, On The Web |
| If you've ever heard me talk about screw caps, you know I'm a fan. But Jason Haas, general manager of Tablas Creek, makes a more nuanced argument about closures at the winery's blog. Screw caps are great, he says, but so are corks. It depends on the wine. |
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| Weekly Wine Wrap-Up |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 9:36 am |
| Tags: Wine Wine Wine, Wine Tasting Note |
| California - This weighty wine smelled of musty flowers and had a harsh oak finish — although it also had strong apple flavors and a tingly acidity — but it may have suffered in the wine rack in my apartment. $40 2006 Saracco Moscato d'Asti, Piemonte, Italy - Saracco makes one of my favorite bottles of this fizzy, fruity, floral |
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| Ripe Time For Fruit Wine, San Francisco Chronicle |
| Published: July 20, 2007, 10:32 am |
| Tags: Wine Wine Wine, My Writing Elsewhere |
| no to the big spread in the Wine section? So today's Wine section has a big story about fruit wine and my first lead for them (this created a bit of start for me on Wednesday). I've had a minor fascination with these drinks for a long time, probably dating to when I read Joanne Harris' Blackberry Wine and then revived by a piece in Petits Propos |
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| My Next Wine Class: Fundamentals I |
| Published: July 18, 2007, 4:06 pm |
| Tags: Wine Wine Wine, Announcements |
| you a heads-up about my next wine class. I'll be teaching the second section (starting Oct. 11) of Fundamentals I: Wines of California and Europe. This is a great starter class about wine — years ago, it was the one that got me hooked — that covers the major regions of California and Europe. We'll cover France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, |
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| Terry's Latest Catalogs |
| Published: July 17, 2007, 3:52 pm |
| Tags: Wine Wine Wine, On The Web |
| and the larger world of wine. He drips fantastic quotes: You can't keep up with the shimmering pearls of wisdom that cascade off of him. I work hard for even the tiny glints of color in my text; Terry writes in rainbows as if it's the most natural thing to do. I suppose I should mention that I have a bit part in Terry's Germany catalog this |
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| Croatian Wine Country Travels |
| Published: July 12, 2007, 12:03 am |
| Tags: Wine Wine Wine, On The Web |
| and his friend through the wine country in the Balkans. Blue Danube is an importer, wholesaler, and retailer, so I imagine the bloggers are visiting wineries represented by Frank and his wife Zsuzsa. But you rarely get to read firsthand accounts of these wine regions, and Frank and Zsuzsa are good people worth |
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| The Art of Decanting |
| Published: June 27, 2007, 1:46 pm |
| Tags: Wine Wine Wine, Book Reviews |
| of the Art Professional Wine Service. Not all the lessons stuck: To this day I have a 10 percent chance of pulling out a cork with an Ah-So opener and a 90 percent chance of shoving it into the wine. But I will never forget the moment when the teacher asked us to name three reasons for decanting wine. We called out the first |
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| The greatest beverages in the world |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 11:35 am |
| Tags: Acai, Best Beverages In The World, Gadling Com, Pocari Sweat, Portuguese Green Wine, Portuguesegreenwine, Tanzanian Peaberry Coffee, Timothy Ferriss, Yerba Mate, Yerbamate |
| Filed under: Raves & Reviews, Trends, On the Blogs, Stores & Shopping, ListsThere's an interesting post over at our sister blog Gadling. It's from author Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week. I think the book is interesting if a bit unrealistic, but this list is intriguing. He picks his eight favorite beverages from around the |
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| Organic Spirit |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 11:51 am |
| Tags: Wine Amp Libations |
| I recently met Allison Evanow who founded Square One Organic Vodka and I had to ask her: why is organic important? Isn't it enough to distill a spirit? Doesn't that process remove the impurities? She told me that to... |
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| Freaky for Tiki |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 9:04 am |
| Tags: Wine Amp Libations |
| At this year's Tales of the Cocktail (a 5-day celebration of the cocktail in it's birthplace, New Orleans), there was lots of Tiki love. Offbeat's Food Editor Todd A. Price teased us with his great on-line piece, "The King... |
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| Michelada |
| Published: July 11, 2007, 8:07 am |
| Tags: Wine Amp Libations |
| I've never before had a Michelada, but someone "challenged" me to try this mix of beer, lime, salt and Bloody Mary Mix, and it is quite good - refreshing, bright and just a dash of mouth-heat. Research reveals that... |
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| The Wine Mine |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 6:12 pm |
| Tags: Wine Wine Wine |
| and I stumbled on a new wine shop, called The Wine Mine, in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood. It's been open for two months, part of a new complex of shops that have opened in an old building. Mariposa, a gluten-free bakery, sits next door. The inventory mixes mainstream and eclectic, and seems to range around France, Spain, Italy and the |
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| Summer Camp for big kids: wine camp |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 12:46 pm |
| Tags: Sonoma, Summer Activities, Wine, Wine Camp, Wine Lovers |
| under: Wine, Spirit of Summer, AmericaEarlier this week, I mentioned the International Pinot Noir Festival in Oregon that is taking place as we speak (July 27-29, 2007). If you're a winegeek, or a wannabe winegeek, or just like saying "winegeek" (that last one is me), and missed the Pinot Noir celebration, Fodor's has a list of similar |
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