Consider this: "It has been clearly demonstrated that the colour of a wine has the greatest influence on our tasting of a glass of wine" Now, this: "until more work is been done on the impact of other prejudices we cannot know if other elements will also affect the way we taste to a greater or lesser degree than colour." This is Fabian Cobb’s final thoughts in a brilliant, but esoteric, post over at Fine Wine Press on the most…

Could you stop drinking wine for a month?  Would it be difficult? Would you be able to let it go with no thought at all to the wines you are missing or the meals that you aren’t enhancing? Writer Jeannine Stein of the Florida Sun Sentinel has an interesting story about a group of very physically fit people who, on the request of their "coach", attempted to give up drinking for a month. The article is very good and thought…

Tonight is "Poker Night" for me; that once-a-month excursion down to the local card room where I sit at a table for eight hours playing 4-8 and 5-10 Texas Hold’em. I do fairly well. I’m a pretty patient guy at that table and my powers of observation have improved remarkably over the past year. What’s interesting is that alcohol and poker do seem to go together among amateur players. Yet wine is rarely ordered. Is wine just too wimpy for…