May 11, 2006
How do you know it’s time to break open the Dry Rose? When your seven day forecast looks like this. Yesterday I decided to move up my official "Rose Break Out Day" from Memorial Day to, well, yesterday. The opening salvo in my attack on defining "pleasure" was a 2004 Ravenswood Rosato. It was cool, had a darkish hue, brimmed with early raspberry aromas and flavors and the requisite acid backbone necessary to be the quaffer it was designed as….
May 1, 2006
Millions of people have taken to the streets today, left their place of work, and raised their voices in support of the notion that all immigrants are and have been a fundamental building block of the greatness and identity of the United States. I wanted to write about the impact of immigrants, documented and undocumented, to the California wine industry. Instead, I think I’ll point my reader to a post that I wrote for Wine Sediments that deals with this…
Apr 25, 2006
Once you realize you like wine, really like wine, you start to read about. What you are looking for in the books and magazines is clarity and confirmation of your excitement. For people like myself, who started getting into wine in the 1980s, Alexis Bespaloff was one of the writers who delivered replaced my excited confusion with clarity and confirmed for me that there really was something very special about the juice. Alex Bespaloff, one of the great American wine…
Apr 24, 2006
We are gathered here today to mark the passing of a Wine Blog. And not just any wine blog, mind you. The recently departed was among the most ambitious uses of the wineblogspace yet conceived. Carolyn Tilly’s Ultimate California Wine Blog attempted to showcase a different California winery tasting room EVERY DAY. And not just a review of decor. Carolyn trained her eye on the people, the wines, the experience, the essense of the tasting room. There was nothing quite…
Apr 20, 2006
Fermentation will be on hiatus for the next 4 days. However, we will return on Monday with tales of roller coasters & wine, Poker & Wine, Los Angeles & Wine….and an answer to the age old question, "Daddy, are we their yet"?