Archive for the ‘Wine Education’ Category
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…
It’s unlikely that many of us have a lot of old friends. Those people you’ve come to rely on as a confidant, who know you and your peculiars, who you have witnessed changing over time as their personalities and lives are altered. It is a privilege to have such a person in your life. You learn quite a bit about how time makes its impact when you sample the same person over the years. The things that recommend we take…
Nothing better defines the wake man leaves in his path than artificial illumination. It must be true that as soon as we learned how to create or capture fire, one person or a team were designated the “Firekeepers”, tasked with never letting the fire go out, lest the miraculous light it cast on night’s pitch black be lost. And surely, that person long ago who possessed the skill to produce fire at will was protected against harm as his particular…
Where the topic of American wine is concerned, there are really only three approaches to writing a book on the subject: 1) Telling the history of American Wine, 2) telling the history of a palate’s interaction with American Wine and 3) describing the current state of American Wine. A new book set to be published by the University of California Press on February 1st, American Wine, takes the latter and probably most useful approach for the vast majority of consumers…
I tapped open my iPad last night to get back to a book I am in the process of devouring and noted the many books that are held in that device. I hadn’t noticed it before then, but the display of this collection of reading material reminded me of something I hadn’t looked at in a long time. I got up from my reading chair and paced into the next room, flipped on the lights and there it was: a…
