Archive for the ‘Culture and Wine’ Category
I’ve read a great deal from what some call the “prevention community” and what others call “neo-Prohibitionists”. And I regularly read the various cases for enhanced alcohol regulation as well as the various cases for not “deregulating.” However I don’t think I’ve ever read a clearer, more concise, or more unapologetic argument for the extreme in alcohol regulation, than that crafted and published recently by The Sutherland Institute, a Utah-based conservative think tank. Though the Sutherland Institute has no official…
There’s a wonderful scene in the film The Godfather in which the aging and retired Godfather is sitting in the shade on a warm day with his son Michael, who recently took over the operations of the “family business”. They are sipping wine and the Godfather muses on his recent increased intake of the beverage: It’s by far my favorite wine-related scene in this, the finest American film ever produced. It’s poignant. It shows the Godfather in a sympathetic light…
There is something very idiosyncratic about Andrea Frost’s new book, “Through a Sparkling Glass”. It’s not like most wine books, yet has a structure many who imbibe in wine literature will recognize instantly. Subtitled “An A-Z of the Wonderland of Wine”, the new issue from Hardy Grant Books is nominally an encyclopedia of wine terms (or at least terms related to wine). Frost’s short sections on topics such as Gruner Veltliner, Old World-New World, Scores, Decanting and other familiar terms…
Future and current Napa Valley winemakers were in the house Sunday afternoon as the long anticipated “Spring Concert” of the Saint Helena Children’s Chorus and Teen Choir rocked a standing room only audience at the Saint Helena Catholic Church. The vibrancy of the Napa Valley music scene was on full display as more than 60 voices rang out in a show featuring 16 numbers representing a large and heady range of genres. The well-honed and pitch perfect set of tenors…
Having lived among the Wine Lover now for 25 years and having observed them in their various form, it has become clear to me that this creature is motivated by a very specific hierarchy of needs; a categorical set of needs, if you will, ranging from the Wine Lover’s most basic physiological needs, through an intermediary category of needs that, if met, can lead the well-tended Wine Lover to the highest plain of Wine Lover-dom. Understanding this Hierarchy of Wine…
