Archive for the ‘Culture and Wine’ Category
Who writes these headlines? Chicken Little? Jonathan Swift? Publicists for the beer Industry ? "Global Warming Destroys Wine Industry" I say we just pack it up and pull out the vines…whadda ya say? I almost detect a sense of glee in this headline that comes from a story produced by the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center. The above headline communicates a slightly different story than this headline, doesn’t it: "Napa Threatened By Global Warming" The story that goes…
Do I need to worry about THIS? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as fearful of the next person of rising ocean levels, skin cancer, melting ice caps and the like. But I’m having a problem getting worried about Sonoma and Napa Valleys being too hot in 100 years to produce good wine. Let’s face it, unless I really cut back on some of my vices and medical technology leaps forward I’m not going to have to worry about Global Warming’s…
I love Amazon.com. In addition to finding just about anything I want there, it also allows me to look into the future….of publishing. On a quarterly basis or so I checking with Amazon by doing a search on "Wine" in the "Books" section of the site and sort my findings by publishing date. What results is a list of books not yet published but set to be released over the next the next few months…or years. What I’m looking for…
Jason Walsh is a UK writer who, according to his blog "Design of the Nation", takes on issues of design, culture, politics and technology. I think that just about covers everything. Included in this bag of issues Mr. Walsh covers is, apparently, wine. In a post today, Walsh offers an interesting notion: That including varietal information on a wine label (Cabernet, Chardonnay, Merlot, etc) as most of the New World wines do, equates to dumbing down wine and allows consumers…
If you are a mere consumer of wine, rather than a seller of wine, I realize it’s a bit tough to get your panties in a bunch over an obscure state law that really only affects wineries. Yet considering the state, the date and the truly unAmerican aspect of the law in question, let’s see if we can’t wrinkle up those undergarments of yours. Since the 1980s Virginia’s wineries have been able to produce their wine and sell it to…
