Bordeaux Blowout at Hand?
Interesting article on Yahoo today (by way of AFP) about Diageo Chateau & Estates's apparent decision to get out of the Bordeaux market and what's likely to happen to Bordeaux prices as a result. Necessary reading, if you drink or collect...
Rocks in Your Mouth
A group of geologists in Oregon have a few skeptical things to say about the notion of "minerality" in wine, the Southern Oregon Mail Tribute reports. They've got a good point or two—that the amount of actual minerals in wine is b...
Black Tea Vodka
When angry colonists threw tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, they had no idea that their rebellion would eventually lead to the American Revolutionary War in 1775, or that it would inspire the creation of another kind of beverage in 2009: Absolut Vodka...
Red Wine & Fish, or Why I Love Science!
So it seems that researchers in Japan have determined the cause of that horrible metallic super-fishy taste that occurs when some red wines are paired with fish. It's iron. Specifically, the amount of ferrous ion present in the wine. You can read...
Your Tongue & Bubbles
There's a fascinating article in the NY Times today about how the tongue perceives the particular taste of carbonated beverages—a category that includes sparkling wines. Evidently, it isn't the prickliness of the popping bubbles that gi...
WineCountry.com: Events (Courtesy of WineCountry.com)
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Wine & Food Education The Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant features 20 bottles of wine for 20...
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Wine & Food Education Pack light yet take in a whole satisfying experience in one delicious...
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Wine & Food Education A collection of five authentic street foods from around the world paired...
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Celebration Bring the whole family to this local tradition at The Culinary Institute of America at...
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Wine Education Learn to choose the perfect Champagne for the holidays and every occasion Students taste...
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Beyond Thunderdome: on Gary Vee’s Wine Library TV
When Gary Vaynerchuk asked me on the “thunder show” I was afraid. Not of him even though he’s an entrepreneur, wine retailer, dynamo, and internet phenom. No, I was afraid he would make me eat dirt. (As he made Conan do.)In the end, that didn’t happen and there was nothing to fear. Not only is [...]
Wine education: Italy and US compared [pictures]
I recently posted about a pamphlet that our six-year-old son brought home from school equating wine and pot.A friend living in the Veneto, Italy writes in with this comparison:I thought I would share the work that our son brought home from his Montessori pre-school today: filastrocca del vino. A page of rhyming verse about [...]
Department of Greenwashing: Ceci La Luna lambrusco
Are some in the wine trade exploiting consumers’ willingness for environmentally friendly products when the practices don’t measure up to more than a pile of manure? Consider an example.In late summer, The Moment blog at nytimes.com wrote a paean to lambrusco, the purple fizzy wine from Emilia-Romagna. The author had high praise for one in [...]
WSJ: wine-rating system is badly flawed
Saturday’s WSJ catches up with Robert Hodgson’s research on the randomness of gold medals in wine competitions. In case you missed our discussion here and many others on them there internets, you can check out the WSJ article for a recap. The story also applies the discussion to wine ratings and scores, underscoring their inherent [...]
Advertorial, 7-11, chocolate milk, freer trade – sipped and spit
SIPPED: the hard question; SPIT: advertorialDuring what looked like an innocuous segment on Thanksgiving wines, Evan Dawson, a local TV news anchor, asks Leslie Sbrocco, wine book author and TV host, some tough questions. And they’re not about the turkey. Tune in to about 1:50 when he asks her about the Beringer wines she recommends: [...]
