Archive for the ‘Wine Places’ Category
I keep coming back to the issue of wine tasting rooms on the Sonoma town plaza, I think, because this “controversy” that continues to brew in this fine town highlights two of the things I truly detest about local politics: Know-nothings posing as authorities and demagoguery masquerading as reason. The concern among some that there are “too many” tasting rooms on the Sonoma Plaza has caused these two very distasteful things to collide and fold up upon one another and…
“A lot of people who live here are concerned it will become a monoculture of retail locations, and wine tasting and wine bars.” This is the sentiment behind a move in my former home, the town of Sonoma, to restrict the number and type of wine tasting rooms that live on or near the town plaza. This article details what will certainly evolve into a major controversy in Sonoma between the idiots and the non-idiots. The folks behind the effort…
If a Sonoma Pinot Noir tastes much more like a Burgundy Pinot Noir than it does a Sonoma County Zinfandel, isn’t this a very strong argument for making varietals the organizing idea behind wine? This is the question that occurred to me when I read Andrew Jefford’s article in Decanter that made the opposite case. Jeffords, who is a very clear-headed, succinct and thoughtful writer, gave us the money quote to his argument early in the article when he wrote…
Read to the bottom of or go to the bottom of this post. I have a plan! Yes. Social media has and continues to change the way wine lovers share their passion. I think we communicate more about wine with other geeks due to social media. We more easily discover fellow geeks. And the ways by which we discover new wines has expanded with social media. But I recently introduced to one of the ultimate examples of the way Social…
The Top 5 Worst Things About Northern California Wine Country 1. The cost of real estate is absurdly high 2. Traffic in the major wine producing regions sucks 3. High Taxes! 4. The poverty is not hard to find 5. The Chinese Food here is terrible The Top 5 Best Things About Northern California Wine Country 1. The weather is perfect. 2. It is a food and wine nirvana 3. Lots of ultra smart people live here 4. It’s…
