May 10, 2006
CONGRATULATIONS to Joe of E-sommelier. Joe is the winner of the first FERMENTATION PHOTO CAPTION CONTEST with his entry that riffs on political correctness, food and wine and Arnold. Joe wins a one year subscription to the award-winning Pinot Report. Thanks to everyone for playing. Look for more fun and games at FERMENTATION. Why? Just because it’s fun.
May 9, 2006
TEN THINGS…We Know About The Glossy Wine Magazines The glossy wine magazines often come in for a lot of criticism by those in the wine industry and those who make wine an important part of their lives. Some is deserved, some is not. 1. They don’t give good reviews to wines just because they are advertisers 2. Advertising is dominated by the huge brands 3. Good reviews from the glossies sell wine 4. They are written and designed to appeal…
May 8, 2006
I think I’ve finally concluded that in the Old World (Europe) "Terroir" is really "tradition". The European wines from different appellations, large and small, that you drink tend to have a consistent and particular characteristic not because the climate and soil from that appellation force upon the wine a particular character, but because there are a set of traditional winemaking and grape growing techniques in an area that lead the wines in a particular direction. Those traditions relate to how…
May 5, 2006
Join in the.. FERMENTATION CAPTION CONTEST Write a caption for this wonderful shot of Governor Arnold schwarzenegger and put it in the comments section HERE. Judged by yours truly, the winner of the first FERMENTATION CAPTION CONTEST will receive a one years subscription to the Award Winning Pinot Noir Report. Contest ends Tuesday May 9 at 11:59pm Hat tip to Jason at the Shipping Compliance Blog for pointing me toward this…great photo.
May 5, 2006
Cellar Tracker is the most popular, and probably the very best, on-line cellar tracker and community wine review site out there. It’s popularity owed to the fact that it’s simply a great system to track what you’ve got and what you’ve drunk as well as what others in the system have had to say about a particular bottle of wine. It’s no coincidence that other similar systems, seeing the success of Cellar Tracker, would pop up. One such newbie in…