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| | WINE TASTING GUY JUNE 7, 2010 Wine Tasting trick My palate-training journey is much like my exercise regimen. At times it is fun. Sometimes it seems like a chore. I’m often humbled. But the more I do it the better I get (or so I think). often tell the story of the well know winemaker I asked about the secret to wine tasting. She [.]. | IMBIBE NEW YORK JUNE 8, 2010 Wines of Santorini Wines from Santorini Sun poured through panes and lit the wines of ten producers from Santorini–Domaine Sigalas, Hatzidakis, Argyros and Gaia… Assyrtiko. Vinsanto. Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall. We walked the room and poured our glasses, lips-snacking over Jonathon Sawyer‘s eye-candy fare. | ALICE FEIRING JUNE 5, 2010 In Which Our Heroine Meets With MrBigJ I might be editing this version, adding fleshing, but before I boarded, I just wanted to leave you folks with a good one. Maybe it's because Neptune and Saturn and Mars and Uranus are pulling their shots but after I came back from California, I thought someone was playing a joke on me. Guess who I'm with and guess who wants to meet you." Ten Bells!' | | | | | | | |
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BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010  Brooklyn Blind Tasting Panel #5 - 2007 Bourgogne Aligoté
Honestly, who drinks Aligoté? It's so acidic and harsh and there isn't much of a reward. There's a reason that people add crème de cassis to Aligoté - it raises the beverage to a potable level. don't remember what Peter said about when this changed, but I think he said it was the 1950's.? Anyway, Aligoté needs to be ripe, Peter said. MORE >> -
ALICE FEIRING | FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010 The Ardeche
In the intro to The Battle, I mused that in the screenplay version of the book, I'd find a secret enclave of extreme winemakers. Together, we'd hook up and deliver purity back to mankind and wine. thought that might be in the Loire in a limestone cave. was wrong. MORE >> -
DR. VINO | TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2010  Scenes from the Wine Media Guild 2010 dinner
“Numerical scoring has replaced the drama, joy, pathos and excitement of wine,&# said Dan Berger last night at the Four Seasons in New York City. Berger was one of four inductees into the Wine Writers’ Hall of Fame of the Wine Media Guild , a 35 year-old organization. Bartholomew Broadbent (right) accepted the award for his father. MORE >> -
WHY WINE BLOG | THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2010  Silver Birch Sauvignon Blanc 2009 3L
Last March I posted a press release on a new collection of artisan wines in an innovative attractive new package. An international wine collection with six brands and ten items packaged in a new exciting premium 3L wine cask from the Octavin Home Wine Bar ™. The Chardonnay was not impressive. Definitely a good party wine. MORE >> -
VIGNA UVA VINO | FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010  Rias Baixas Albarino Grand Tasting
New wine drinkers many not know about Albarino wines, so here's a short study. It's said but not proven that the Albarino grape was brought to Spain in the form of Riesling cuttings during the middle ages by German monks on pilgrimage to the Camino de Santiago. The Albarino and Riesling grape share minerality as one of their similarities. Very nice! MORE >>
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- Blending with Audrey SLAKED | THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2010
- Montgomery's Cheddar from Neal's Yard BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE | THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2010
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