Kosher Wine, and a Joke
My college roommate, who was a conservative-leaning-toward-orthodox Jew who kept Kosher, liked to tell the following joke: Q. What do you get when you squeeze a synagog? A. Juice There is no...
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The Wine Chap offers a glossary of wine terms: Focussed – pure Pure – one-dimensional Intense – disconcerting Forward – obvious Reserved (or recalcitrant – if you can pull it off without being stabbed)...
View ArticleWho Will Stand Up For Wine Critics?
South African wine writer Christian Eades damns wine criticism with faint praise: When we’re not writing about each other and actually writing about wine, it’s no bad thing. He then goes on to explain...
View ArticleSalut!
Joe at 1 Wine Dude makes a blogger breakthrough and is named a judge in the 2011 Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year Awards. This makes me insanely jealous and I’m going to have a psychotic eruption....
View ArticlePurple Heart, Purple Teeth
Stories like this make me all weepy: Deb Stallings was more than a little surprised when she found out that budgetary concerns meant that residents of the veterans’ home in the Napa Valley, one of the...
View ArticleExcuse Me, Waiter, I Found a Hair In My Wine
Via Criggo and long-time reader Science Goddess.
View ArticleNew Wine Word of the Day
Because Germany’s wine classification system isn’t complicated enough, Wine Spectator invents a new class of wine: Kleptenbeerenauslese — wine made from stolen grapes; stolen select berry harvest The...
View ArticleEuropean Wine Gets Its Act Together
The Good Grape notes the European Invasion and the apparent unilateral disarmament of American wine marketing: When you watch for it, you’ll begin to see the tell-tale EU flag in virtually all forms of...
View ArticleWinemaking Without Glamour
Every now and then, supersophisticated, rich-people-paradise Napa Valley shows its farm-country roots. Last week, in finest county fair tradition, the 11th Annual Napa County Pruning Contest brought...
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