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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
a la Wine
Gallup poll gives wine a thumbs down
But polls also bounce around a lot. And they’re simply surveys of attitudes,
not actual behavior. It will be interesting to see if 2008 is the umpteenth
year of consecutive growth in wine consumption in the US. What’s your bet?
How To Find Affordable Wines That Are Good
Wine is such a wonderful luxury, that it can be and is enjoyed by
multitudes of people throughout the world. Most of these people never
experience a one hundred-dollar bottle of wine. Yet there are so many
different affordable wines on ...
US wine industry 'doing nothing' on climate change, Taste 3 hears
A leading US wine region climate researcher says the US is ‘doing nothing'
to study the problem.
E Wine of the Week
Taste five wines, which I’ll recommend in my August E Wine columns, plus
a welcome wine upon arrival. The cost is $10. No reservations needed, just
drop by and taste at your own pace. Go to brucecochran.com for details. ...
An $8000 bottle of wine
I was fascinated by the wine list. It was thicker than the menu, six or
eight pages long. And it was all Italian wines, listed in Italian by wine
region. Cantinetta Luca has gone to great lengths to collect wines from
every wine ...
Wine Country Flowers
cyclist451 posted a photo:. Wine Country Flowers. Another angle on the
flowers I saw in the Alexander Valley.
Titus Vineyards 2006 Napa Valley Zinfandel
Backgrounder: Reports have been flooding in to Wine Spies Central Command
about titus Vineyards and their ability to craft wines with insane QPR.
For today’s wine, we sent Agent Red undercover to the winery to taste the
wine – and ...
More good cheap wine: White Zinfandel (Rose) from Beringer
Nowadays, rose/blush/pink wines are all the rage, and you can get plenty
in the LCBO. To me, most of these new wines taste very serious, and one of
the things I liked about the old roses were that they were not serious. ...
“Big Business” Wines Are Proper and Have No Soul
I was recently inspired by the Sauvignon Blanc episode of Jancis Robinson’s
Wine Course on DVD. During the lesson, Jancis traveled to the Loire Valley
in France and spoke to its rebel winemaker, Didier Daugeneau “The Wild Man
of ...
I love cheap, err, frugal wine
Since my college days of buying Wild Irish Rose for my friends on their 21st
birthdays, I've always had an affinity for affordable wine. In my opinion,
as long as its wine, you always seem a touch classier than say, gripping a
40 ounce ...
Daily Ramblings: Wine
Have you ever seen or smelled a wine so amazing that you would have loved
to take a sip? A wine so beautiful and vibrant in color that you just had
to stare? A wine that just seem to take hold of all your senses and hold
you there? ...
Wine Review: Ehlers Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2007
Eager to understand how soil can impact the taste of wine? So I’ve just
opened a bottle of Ehlers Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2007 and inhale the
delicate aroma of ripe, yet still firm, peaches and apricots. This aroma
carries through to the ...
Keep the Cheap Wine Flowing
I blogged last week about blind wine tastings - my own casual experiments
as well as some more serious academic ones. The bottom line is that in blind
wine tastings, there is a zero or even slightly negative correlation
between the ...