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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | ALICE FEIRING MAY 14, 2008 Alice Feiring - In Vino Veritas The point of view seems wrong to me as most California and New World wines are made for the market -- the most obvious taste--than the product of a carefully matched grapevine to land and climate and a passionate winemaker who is part artist/philosopher and part scientist. Are there exceptions to the awfulness of California wine for you? | ALICE FEIRING JANUARY 21, 2009 Alice Feiring - In Vino Veritas » Chardonnay in California: Part Five January 19, 2009 When I got this assignment a friend in Portland said, "Al, its going to kill you." Even though she didnt taste them all, but a good spectrum of about 50 wines from all over California, shes of the opinion that there are more styles of the wine available than a decade ago. | SLAKED JUNE 26, 2009 Cult Wine Oh Nine After all, no one has the money for $300 cabernet sauvignon from California, and even alluding to Cult Wines, let alone drinking them, is so out of fashion that one hesitates to mention the plethora of emails arriving daily intra-continentally. Flights are delayed. Market volatility remains high. just can’t bring myself to do it. Never again.” | | | | | | | | |
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EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2007 Gettin' A little Chile in South Carolina
The SLA (State liquor Authority) hearing for the shop is coming quick so we have been working double overtime to get all the demographic research together for the judges. They can be found among the sea of sub-par California wines. After doing some research I found the wine history of Chile to be pretty interesting. Pretty cool. MORE >> -
EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2007  ALPHABET CITY WINE CO. IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS! 100 AVE. C (212-505-WINE)
Before all of this when I was scouring shops for great wine to write about the wine on our shelves are those bottles I would purchase, research, pop, pour, swirl, sip and ponder. Yes my friends I have been out of commission for quite some time now. month? Two months? Bacchus only knows. Which brings me to the main reason for my forced hiatus. MORE >> -
EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2008  DRINKING A 2005 BENSON FERRY OLD VINE ZINFANDEL WITH A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND
Where does it come from and why is it so popular and plentiful in California and not so much everywhere else. And if Primitivo from Apulia is closely related to Zinfandel how did Zinfandel become so popular in California? Okay, so now we know where the grape came from but how did it get all the way to California? in most wine). MORE >> -
EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008  Casa Marguery Malbec: Bringing the Past to the Present and Into the Future
was searching them out and researching the history when I came across the fact that this area some say is the birthplace of Malbec, known in Cahors as Cot. No I have never been to this part of France or France at all for that matter but I have researched enough to be able to imagine what it must be have been like in this bucolic commune. MORE >> -
EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2008  A GREEK REVELATION!
California? will talk about the history of the wine industry and how it got to the point where it will soon blow up on our market (at least that is what I feel). When you think of wine what parts of the world come to mind first? France? Italy? Maybe Argentina or Spain? What about Greece? Wait a second Keith.Greece? Greece. Red please. MORE >>
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