Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Why don't they just report there were carnivorous worms found lurking in bottles of Austrian Gruners. It would have the same effect on me as this headline: "Terrified Whisky Workers Find Venomous Black Widows lurking in Casks" Great. But you want to hear the worst thing about this story of workers at a Scottish cooperage that had to deal with dirty, ugly, poisonous, scary, deadly spiders in barrels? It's this: "Sub-contractors at the plant unload old wine barrels which are…
Imagine the consequences of assuming—worse yet, believing—you had already tasted the best wines you'll ever taste. I've been thinking about the meaning of this disastrous state of mind. I've been thinking about the necessity of assuming the next day or next wine will be better than the last. I've concluded that despite past disappointments or even the experience of soaring wines and seemingly unparalleled moments, if we don't assume these things and moments can be eclipsed by what's to come,…
I love the movie "High Fidelity". In addition to being an examination heartbreak, busted love affairs and misery born of unrequited love, it also deals with music geeks—those people for whom the details and intricacies of music knowledge is so important to them it actually helps define their lives. This kind of obsession, not unfamiliar in the wine world, is best on display in High Fidelity when a co-worker (Dick) drops in at the home of the main character ("Rob")…
I feel about wine-related art the same way I feel about the "Whale Art" one is subjected to in galleries along the California coast and particularly prevalent in the various art outlets in Carmel and Monterey, California: I am generally untouched and unmoved. Art and wine have been forever linked ever since marketers discovered that while in "Wine Country" visitors were in a mood to take something less consumable home with them that reminded them of the uniqueness of the…
I've been thinking about "Wine Porn" (not for any good reason) and have concluded there really isn't anything we can call "Wine Porn" that comes close to the titillating exposure we have to honest to goodness "Food Porn". Wikipedia is kind enough to offer a pretty decent, though limiting, explanation of "Food Porn": "Food porn is a sarcastic term variously applied to a spectacular visual presentation of cooking or eating in advertisements, infomercials, cooking shows or other visual media, food…
