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Do the wealthy think we're in a recession? Yes (see yesterday's Wall Street Journal story, Wealthy See Recession, Poll Says).Is it affecting their spending on fine wine? No (based on Vinfolio's growing sales volumes as well as those of some... In 2007 Andreas Larsson was crowned world's best sommelier. He was recently interviewed on the
American internet radio WineFairy.com. Listen to the interview with Andreas on what his favourite
wines are, and on his other great passion, music and his favourite music personalities ... The competition The World's Best Chardonnay was recently held in Burgundy. 60 wines were
awarded gold medals and 202 had silver out of 953 contestants. The gold medals were well spread out
over the world: South Africa, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, Spain, Canada, Greece, ... The American Association of Wine has launched a new blog on the theme of wine, economics and
marketing. Some of the subjects discussed already are: the extension of Champagne, wine in China
and valuing Bordeaux vintages. Read more: www.wine-econ.org/More from BKWine: ... Parisians in need of cash can now go to the pawn shop and leave their wines. Crédit Municipal de
Paris, who opened shop for wine deposits recently, received wine valued at €45,000 in the first
48 hours. Someone came with an old bottle of Bollinger champagne (€1000), another ... One prominent Midwestern state has found a way to resolve its wine direct-shipping issues, and the resolution appears as if it will please wine consumers who are on the receiving end of some of those direct-from-the-winery shipments, according to this... Your best and brightest wine tastings and events listing, courtesy of a Dayton-based wine listserv, is your with but a click of your mouse …. Can life get any better?... Why is an out-of-state retailer treated any differently than an out-of-state winery that is selling wine into a particular state? The nature of the purchase transaction is exactly the same. Return of the Stone Age in IllinoisYet that is exactly... Branding of wine is controversial. Here's an excerpt from Chapter 7 of "Wine Brands", by Evelyne Resnick. Just a short posting from an internet café in Tunesia. Left my desk, and the 2007 primeurs took off! So
this week just a very short summary of what happened so far. In France it was a short working week
(today is Liberation Day, tomorrow everything is closed also, and the new week only starts on ... Water Droplet
"Taking interesting pictures in vineyards isn't easy. While many are surely picturesque, there is a lot
of sameness in them -- row after row of vines -- and that repetition makes it easy to overlook little
details like this that can be quite beautiful" -- Alder ... The closing of Mei Lai Wah Coffee House is a great loss both to the Chinatown community and to occasional visitors. Today in a head to head confrontation Gary Vaynerchuk pits 2 Syrahs against each other, one from
Washington State and the other from California.
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Wines tasted in this episode:
2005 Rhapsody3 Syrah
2005 Gramercy ... Tuesday after work, we had a baby shower for Sean and his wife, Jolie. They are expecting their first baby May 23, though Jolie and the doctor think little Harper may come into the world a bit early. I attended, despite my unjust depiction as one who does not like children. We had wine [...] The assumption of the American Viticultural Area (appellation) program is that there is something unique about those areas that are granted AVA status—that there is something about Oakville, Anderson Valley, Finger Lakes and Green Valley that make them distinct. However,... A detail in the vineyards of Chateau Gazin, A metal wire with old dried vine tendrils that twine and
twirl Pomerol Bordeaux Gironde Aquitaine FranceDo you have picture needs?Currently scheduled wine region
visits: Bordeaux, le Sud-Ouest, Champagne, Tuscany, Chablis, Burgundy, Languedoc, Rhone, ... The somewhat recent revelation that it is technically illegal for home winemakers in California to hold public tastings and even competitions of their wines is one of those instances where a truly out-dated law of little or no value, previously... In the last Brief we talked about GrapeNetworks who has developed a solution based on climate and
humidity sensors connected through a WiFi network to improve vineyard management. It allows for
better resource and water management and potentially less use of harmful substances in the ... Pivotal Scene of the animated movie "Ratatouille"Remember this scene of the animated movie Ratatouille when stilt-legged food-critic Anton Ego suddenly freezes in wonder as he tastes the perfect dish ? During a few seconds of divine surprise, the usually-merciless food... One of the ancient vines that are a common sight in the vineyards of Lodi. I have finally blown the dust and the mold (was that botrytis?) off of the notes from my trip to California a month ago... This marks my first ever Wine Blogging Wednesday, a tradition started by Lenn over at Lenndevours
sometime in the Neolithic period of the wine blogging timeline. I’m happy to finally join in the
festivities.
The wine type this month, chosen by Tim at Winecast, is Old World Riesling, which ... The wines of Rully are very overlooked and today Gary Vaynerchuk takes a good hard look at them!
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“QOTD#1: Princeton, New Jersey
QOTD#2: Best: 2003 Saint Jean Du ... I can remember a time when the word "Alsace" only brought to mind dim memories of my 5th grade class
discussion on some valley that people were fighting about in one of those big wars. In those days I
definitely couldn't spell Gewurztraminer, and I had only tried one or two of them.
Perhaps you'd ... Interview with Joel Peterson, Founder and Winemaker of Ravenswood. Bright man and true humanist too.
Sorry - the sound id a bit off - my US tapes have been slightly damaged! Following the theme of my last post about Americans’ increasing awareness of the quality wines that
many artisan producers of Argentina are exporting, I’m pleased to post the first installment of my
interview with Ed Lehrman of Vine Connections. Along with his business partner, Nick Ramkowsky, ... Après plusieurs semaines où nous avons laissé le collage opérer (cf. blog sur le collage du 14
février), nous avons réalisé courant avril "la levée de colle" du Palmer 2006. Cette
opération consiste à soutirer le vin clair, prêt à être mis en bouteille en le séparant de ... Isn't wine like sex, what's the point of writing about it? No reason whatsoever for you to read any fancy schmancy prose I might come up with — at least, not on this day, when the freshest wine post on the internet is so compelling. It’s entitled Wine’s Pleasures: Are They... Gary Vaynerchuk goes through the secret pack and tries 4 wines and talks about birthdays and news from
Amazon!
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“Great time, sorry I did not get the secret pack, it is a goal ... As one Uncorked commenter noticed and pointed out yesterday, Tom Wark, author of Fermentation who has done more than any other human being to further the cause of wine blogging in America, scraped the bottom of the wine barrel yesterday... "He said: "I think the market has just tipped. All of a sudden, rather than being driven by 20-year-olds who were the early adopters [of the net], I'm starting to get emails from people saying 'as a pensioner ... The... Recently Hillary Clinton strolled into a Fort Wayne, Indiana bar and proceeded to very publicly throw back a shot of whiskey and chase it with a beer. Call me a political cynic but I'd take even money on the proposition... The trouble with Californian wine may be California -- the Freeway State.Half the time I was trying to
have fun and kick back; the other half I was desperately trying to burn up the alcohol I ingested so I
could get back in the car and up the next on-ramp.Here I am suffering through a dubious ... For the past couple months I’ve been using twitter.com to catalogue smaller day to day items such
as winery related marketing stuff, interesting links that don’t warrant entire posts, Sonoma
County Wine Library info (where I’m serving as President for 2008) and other ... Gary Surprises someone and tries 4 Shiraz’s from down under. Lets see their take on the Austrian
reds!
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“Great show, good information and great fun.
QOTD - pretty plain ... I'd like to point you readers to an interesting post by Clark Smith, at his GrapeCrafter blog, about
Natural Winemaking (yes, capitalized) and the role of yeasts in the winemaking process.
Clark spent some time recently at a wine industry event where panelists and the audience discussed the
... Welcome to our video podcast of the A Walk Through the Cellars - Taittinger - Video Show #31.
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The roots of Taittinger date back to 1734, when Champagne merchant Jacques Fourneaux established his
company. The business ... Bloggerview #18 Who: Mark Fisher Blog: Uncorked Where:
http://www.daytondailynews.com/o/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/wine/index.html Mark Fisher thinks like
a reporter and this is what makes his blog, Uncorked, so relevant and so good. Of course, he is a
reporter for Ohio's Dayton Daily News ... While often referred to as a single "place" when it comes to wine, Napa is hardly a single monolithic
growing region. Each of its 14 established AVAs (American Viticultural Areas) lays claim to a separate
identity, characterized by geology, microclimate, and different histories of production.
The ... For this week’s theme, we have famous people and their corresponding wines. You should hear folks
asking to taste the “Peter Griffin” and me having to explain The Family Guy to many of them.
One guy who was throwing back his tastes said Demi Moore should get a new job. (I asked him ... I understand that many rave about Riesling being the epitome of fine wine making. These people see the
poise, quality, long life and expression of terrior while not overshadowing the grapes inherent
characteristics, as representing the very best of the classic grapes.
Me? I don't give a monkeys. ... Since today the judgement of Robert Parker for the tortured Bordeaux 2007 vintage can be found on
Bordoverview. At this moment not the exact ratings, but an interpretation of these. No worries: you can
still perfectly sort the wines (behind the interpretations are the real scores, invisible). If ... If one were to speculate on the wine market as a savvy investor might in the small-cap stock market, the
game would be the same: follow people you know with good track records. In the wine world, we'd also
have to include a corollary about betting on great vineyard sites, but leaving aside the raw ... Vernaccia is another classic white wine that is overlooked by so many as they focus on the 1 or 2 white
wines they drink from Italy. I hate to pick on Pinot Grigio but I want people to expand their palates.
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Comments on this episode(336) ... Some fine Long Island chenin blancs. Chateau Gazin, its vineyard with a rose bush at the end of each row of vines and the road leading to the
chateau Pomerol Bordeaux Gironde Aquitaine FranceDo you have picture needs?Currently scheduled wine
region visits: Bordeaux, le Sud-Ouest, Champagne, Tuscany, Chablis, Burgundy, Languedoc, ... Sympathique manifestation le 30 avril au nouveau magasin de Sherry Lehmann sur Park Avenue à New York,
à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de Michael Aaron, et de son départ en retraite que nous lui souhaitons
longue et heureuse. Michael reste consultant pour Sherry Lehmann, et nous comptons bien le ... If you are a Zinfandel fan, then surely you are quite familiar with the name Rockpile…
Around six years ago, Rockpile was recognized as its own AVA. Before that it was grouped in with the
other areas of Dry Creek Valley, but it became obvious that the nature of the geography and wines ... Of course, it would be no surprise to assert that Argentina has come a considerably long way over the
last decade in terms of the depth that its wine producers are capable of achieving. The manner in which
this process has and continues to take place, however, has less to do with the factors that ...
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World's best sommelier interviewed on WineFairy.com [ BKWine Brief Blog ]
