Original post by Craig Camp
With Superbowl Sunday fast approaching, I thought that this week I’d find two bottles that would help make the big game more enjoyable.
With Superbowl Sunday fast approaching, I thought that this week I’d find two bottles that would help make the big game more enjoyable. While I do enjoy a nice cold beer while I’m watching the Patriots (Sam Adams, specifically), too many nice cold beers make me feel like a great big lump, and so wine has […]
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Bloggerview #18
Who: Neil From Brooklyn
Blog: BrooklynGuy’s Wine Blog
Where: http://brooklynguyloveswine.blogspot.com/
Neil’s BrooklynGuy’s Wine & Food Blog always struck me as the prototypical wine blog. What’s you’ve got here is someone relating their every day experience with wine. You are discovering what they discover. Tasting what they taste. But…This Guy really does do it so damn well, in large part because his writing is so filled with an authentic voice that it’s very difficult to simply dismiss as another wine blog. The posts tend to be long. Anybody who has spent any time at Fermentation will know I’m not opposed to long posts. But as a reader, the article needs to be compelling for me to following down the page. I never fail to follow The BrooklynGuy’s words down the page.
1. When did you begin blogging and why?
I started in September of 2006. I was reading a lot about wine in my down time and I wanted to learn more about the wines of the Loire Valley and Burgundy, but I wasn
Bloggerview #18
Who: Niel From Brooklyn
Blog: BrooklynGuy’s Wine Blog
Where: http://brooklynguyloveswine.blogspot.com/
Neil’s BrooklynGuy’s Wine & Food Blog always struck me as the prototypical wine blog. What’s you′ve got here is someone relating their every day experience with wine. You are discovering what they discover. Tasting what they taste. But…This Guy really does do it so damn well, in large part because his writing is so filled with an authentic voice that it’s very difficult to simply dismiss as another wine blog. The posts tend to be long. Anybody who has spent any time at Fermentation will know I’m not opposed to long posts. But as a reader, the article needs to be compelling for me to following down the page. I never fail to follow The BrooklynGuy’s words down the page.
1. When did you begin blogging and why?
I started in September of 2006. I was reading a lot about wine in my down time and I wanted to learn more about the wines of the Loire Valley and Burgundy, but I wasn
I’m pretty stressed out these days. My favorite metaphor for stress has got to be those incredible acrobats that get all those plates spinning on the end of their sticks, and then have to keep them spinning through contortions, contrivance, and concentration. Spinning plates, balls in the air, irons in the fire. Sometimes it seems like we’re all bumping up against the limits of what our little brains can manage.
The reasons for my stress are all the usual excuses — a surfeit of work coupled with a general tendency to be more responsible than I should, multiplied by a personal commitment to blog regularly.
I guess I should consider myself lucky, however, that the source of my blogging passion is also the source of some relief from the stress. There′s nothing quite like pulling a cork and sitting down in a few stolen moments to a quiet glass of wine.
Those first aromas waft upwards from the glass and smooth the ruffled feathers of immediate concerns, and the silky textures in the mouth do their best to caress away those voices that constantly remind of more important things to be doing. Wine practically forces us to slow down — not just because the appreciation of its complex flavors and aromas require a certain meditation.
As I savored my few mouthfuls this evening after a somewhat hurriedly digested meal, I was struck at the… irony, I guess you’d call it, that a drink so calming and contemplative derives from so much work. If I push myself, I can see in the layers of aromas (and the complex phenolics that make them up) an analogue to the hundreds of hands and hours that shepherded fruit through its transformation to wine, but it’s almost easier for me to appreciate the labor that has gone into wine for the opposite forces it exerts on my own body. The intense forces and energy of wine’s production become persuasions to relaxation, respite, and even sleep through a process that I can only equate to alchemy.
I think this is something that we humans have always understood about wine. Certainly in its earliest days, wine required so much work, not only to produce and harvest the crops for its production, but also to simply keep it from turning to vinegar. But or thousands of years, we have made the effort, knowing that the results would be, according to the yet unwritten laws of physics, equal and opposite. Perhaps this is why Roman legions away at war were paid (and sometimes pacified in their unrest) with wine. It is most certainly why poor emigrants throughout history included vines among their scant, treasured possessions required to forge a new life somewhere else. No matter what happens, wine offers us a unique comfort.
There are a lot of magical things about wine, but tonight as I savored the results of a struggle that began when a vine first strained for moisture in hard, stony soil, all I could think of was the beauty of that energy transformed into the momentary stillness of my own mind and thought. It was most certainly a gift worth savoring. At least until my cellphone rang.
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CHERRY HILL - Wines from Israel will take center stage at a Feb. 21 wine tasting event at Temple Emanuel, 1101 Springdale Road.
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At a recent information day held by VinPro, the wine farmers’ service organisation, Tim Hutchinson, the chief executive of Douglas Green Bellingham, told more than 500 grape farmers, wine makers, wholesalers and labour what he had found out.
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SACRAMENTO - Americans uncorked 314 million cases of wine last year, a new record that underscores the nation
SACRAMENTO — California’s leading wine-industry experts present their take on the 2007 business fortunes of the state′s wineries and grape producers and project what they can expect for 2008.
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Dear Diary,
A day in the life of a wine publicist…
So, there I was, hurrying to get over the hill from Sonoma County into Napa, on my way to Suisun Valley. I was delivering some press kits to my colleague Roger King, who was headed to the Unified Wine Grape Symposium in Sacramento. The new 2008 […]
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is heading a cast of California food and wine celebrities in a new tourism ad campaign.
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When it comes to wine tasting, pleasure is in the price. Using brain scanners to monitor the minds of wine drinkers, scientists found that people given two identical red wines got more pleasure from tasting the one they were told cost more.
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“most Americans were satisfied with the system as it is except for a
small, very vocal segment who say they can
Smaller wine glasses should be reintroduced in pubs, clubs and bars to help curb excessive drinking, the government hears
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is heading a cast of California food and wine celebrities in a new tourism ad campaign. The campaign focuses on a new Web site, http://www.landofwineandfood.com, and stems from a partnership between the California Wine…
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This week the Winefairy discusses buying wine for parties and functions, putting wine away for special occasions, why different Vineyards have multiple brands, and that burning question - which is best - screwcaps or corks?
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Frank Pulice of Austin’s Wine Cellar will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Bonita Springs Newcomers Club.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is heading a cast of California food and wine celebrities in a new tourism ad campaign.
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SAN FRANCISCO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is heading a cast of California food and wine celebrities in a new tourism ad campaign. The campaign focuses on a new Web site, http://www.landofwineandfood.com , and stems from a partnership between the California Wine Institute and the California Travel and Tourism Commission.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81158) has announced the addition of Snapshots Germany Sparkling Wine 2007 to their offering.
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Pubs and bars should be forced to start selling smaller glasses of wine again, an MP says.
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One of the enduring reference points for gauging a wine’s quality and value is its estimated ageability. Estimated is the operative word…
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The love of wine grabs people by the throat and wallet and leads them down many different and fascinating pathways. I′ve met thousands of winemakers, wine sellers and wine enthusiasts over the years, each with a different tale to tell.
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At the Wine Cellarage, upwards of $30 million in treasure reside: More than 20,000 cases of the rarest and priciest glories of the vinous world, in a 150-foot-long, temperature- and humidity-controlled vault.
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“Variety is in our nature” is the message the local wine industry is sending out to the world. Where else would you get, in one tiny area, as many site, soil and climate aspects as half the European wine producing countries put together?
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The International Wine Industry Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol, developed through a partnership between the Wine Institute of California, New Zealand Winegrowers, South Africa’s Integrated Production of Wine program, and the Winemakers′ Federation of Australia, will soon be released for use by the global wine industry.
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Virginia Wine Expo The first-of-its-kind wine event in the state takes place next month at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. Here are a few facts and figures for the two-day affair. What: Virginia Wine Expo presented by SunTrust When: Feb. 16-17 Where: Greater Richmond Convention Center
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Amid the decadence and epicurean excess that fuel the nation’s food and wine festivals, a few non-traditional themes are beginning to assert themselves: health, fitness and green living.
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Australian wine prices are set to rise this year as the nation suffers its worst drought in a century, an official said.
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