Wine Politics How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink
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Ask a traditionalist about wine-and-food pairings, and be prepared for a lecture on the virtues of serving Rioja with rosemary grilled lamb chops or Champagne with oysters. Let the fuddy-duddies harvest these low-hanging grapes. Gary Vaynerchuk has fresher, zanier ideas. In a September episode of his video blog, "Wine Library TV," he raved about how the 2007 Landmark Overlook Chardonnay enhanced...
Wine Library TV (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Gary Vaynerchuk tastes some Thanksgiving picks with writer and blogger Tyler Colman (aka Dr Vino). Having trouble viewing this video? Try the Quicktime version. Wines tasted in this episode: 2007 Selbach-oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Kabinett RieslingMosel Riesling 2005 Viking Vouvray Tendre SecVouvray 2007 Michel Chignard Moriers FleurieCru Beaujolais [...]
Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish... (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
* * * * * Charlie Olken, Editor/Publisher of Connoisseurs’ Guide Today, Charlie Oken, the Editor/Publisher of Connoisseurs' Guide (to California Wines) made my day when I saw the comment he wrote on Steve Heimoff's blog post, Joe Roberts is right about bullsh*t unreliable wine judge studies : "It seems to me that we have long ago identified these massive tastings as exercises in marketing...
Bordeaux-Undiscovered (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Great Wine Swindle – How Snobs are Ruining Your Wine by Malcolm Gluck came out on sale 18th November, timed to coincide with the release of Beaujolais Nouveau, and I was sent a copy by the Publisher to read. I am in favour of a chap who calls a spade a spade and before I tell you about the book – which I thoroughly enjoyed – I want to tell you a bit about Malcolm Gluck. Malcolm...
Organic Food and Drink (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Rodney Strong Wine Estates announced last month that it is now "carbon neutral." The Sonoma County winery joins several in California, South America and New Zealand that, through conservation and investment in clean energy (by buying carbon credits), have reduced their carbon emissions enough to essentially zero out their contribution to greenhouse gases. Wineries today tout their environmentalist...
the new bordeaux (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I've been back from the Wine Future conference in Rioja for a few days now, and have been hearing from a number of other attendees who agree that it was fascinating in parts, but patchy, with speakers dividing into those who stayed on point and talked about the future (the clue was in the title guys), and those who just talked about themselves, and their own organisations. One of the most interesting...
WineFoot.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
WSJ has posted a very compelling article that looks into the world of wine ratings and medal and how they impact the overall industry – here’s a snip: It was in this climate that in the 1970s a lawyer-turned-wine-critic named Robert M. Parker Jr. decided to aid consumers by assigning wines a grade on a 100-point [...]
Vinography (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This is one of those wines that I live for. The kind that begins with an unknown bottle thrust in front of me by a friend with a twinkle in their eye, and ends with a profound memory of taste that becomes one of those moments that wine lovers cherish. Such wines are not common, at least not for me, but they are what keep me passionate about drinking and writing and enjoying the world of wine. Occasionally...
Jean-Luc Thunevin's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
François Mauss organizes 2 tasting events on December 1st and 2nd in Restaurant Laurent in Paris. The first will be a vertical blind tasting of only one cru; the other is the 1998 vintage: you can already see many pictures of the bottles on his site. The latter tasting already took place at least twice: In April 2001 in Singapore and November 2003 in Villa D’Este in Italie. Valandraud...
Wine Library TV (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Gary Vaynerchuk tastes three serious and highly rated Chardonnays and has some big announcements. Having trouble viewing this video? Try the Quicktime version. Wines tasted in this episode: 2008 Brewer Clifton Santa Rita Hills ChardonnaySanta Barbara Chardonnay 2007 Dumol Isobel ChardonnaySonoma Chardonnay 2006 Ramey Ritchie ChardonnayNapa Chardonnay [...]
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
by Agence France-Presse Photo: Max xx via FlickrSPAIN—With the Copenhagen climate change summit looming, the world of wine convened on Spain’s Rioja region for a conference in which global warming emerged as the industry’s top concern. “All over the world, alcohol levels are going up,” said British wine critic Jancis Robinson at the WineFuture conference, citing just one...
Heather Dougherty's wine blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Beaujolais nouveaux – is it vieux chapeau?!!! It's dark November, bonfire night is over, Christmas not yet begun – so here are two distinctly different excuses to party....from petillance to full on fizz. The year was 1972, Terry Wogan first hosted his Radio 2 breakfast show, the Watergate Scandal hit the news headlines, and most importantly in this year 1972 Alan Hall, wine critic of The...
The Frontal Cortex (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The WSJ discovers the unreliability of wine critics, citing the fascinating statistical work of Robert Hodgson: In his first study, each year, for four years, Mr. Hodgson served actual panels of California State Fair Wine Competition judges--some 70 judges each year--about 100 wines over a two-day period. He employed the same blind tasting process as the actual competition. In Mr. Hodgson's study,...
The Wine Whore - A Blog that Works for Wine! (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Wine tastings are a great way to learn about your palate but they can also be dangerous if you aren't properly prepared. Before you go swirling, sniffing, and sipping, make sure to follow these important tasting tips: Tip #1 - Dark Clothes Aren't Just for Vampires There's no better way to look like a moron than sporting a huge red stain down the front of your shirt. Not only will it make you look like...
Joe's Dartblog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
One more, dear readers, from Saturday: a picture of the PoMo subter Corbu flim-flam Napa compound of the wine which presuming we do not find and auction at Bonhams & Butterfields a case of Falernian possesses the very lowest quality-to-price quotient in all viticulture: Opus One--the wine that makes you beg for Opus Zero. JOE ASCH agrees with Robert Parker about the older vintages of Opus One....
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