Archive for the ‘Culture and Wine’ Category
*******************************************************************************************Don’t forget to take the Fermentation Survey!CLICK HERE to take the survey…All I ask is three minutes of your day.******************************************************************************************* I considered making this an obligatory post about the obligatory media story about thanksgiving wines. But what fun is that? I think the only way to properly treat the topic of what to drink on thanksgiving day is to treat it the same way we treat the food we eat on this day: Celebrate Diversity! There’s nothing better, nothing more…
I’ve written about that company called Enologix before. Not too flatteringly either. However, that doesn’t mean I’m not fascinated by the subtext of the Enologix story: delivering sameness of style is merely a proper response to what the consumer demands. Enologix is a company that has essentially mapped out the chemical elements of wines that score well with Robert Parker and the Wine Spectator Magazine. The company helps a winery deploy manipulations in the vineyard and cellar to come as…
With the prospect prior to the last election and confirmation afterward that Representative Nancy Pelosi would be come Speaker of the House of Representatives, lots of attention is now being paid to the congresswoman from San Francisco. It turns out that much of that attention has been turned to the fact that Speaker Pelosi and her husband Paul own a vineyard in Napa. But not just that she owns a vineyard. The folks writing on Right Wing blogs, for Right…
"Sideways" the movie was able to have such huge impact on the wine market and on Pinot Noir sales primarily because it received such great reviews. It was not a big blockbuster so it too these kind of reviews to put rears in the theater seats where they could encounter the happless wine lovers and the picturesque vineyards of Santa Barbara. The Acadamy Award nomination sealed the deal. There was hope that the new film, "A Good Year", might have…
It’s election day. And I’m wondering…what would a responsible wine-industry supporting candidate look like? 1. They would support a liberal guest worker program 2. They would support moderate, but not excessive taxes on alcohol 3. They would support state or federal research on grapegrowing 4. They would support laws that allow any winery anywhere to sell direct to anyone and any business anywhere. (Free trade and the dismantling of the three tier system) 5. They would support "Brown Bag" laws…
