Archive for the ‘From the Web’ Category
Napa 2010: How Bad Is It?
April 18th, 2011 by Tom Johnson
1 Wine Dude tastes from barrels, reaches conclusions about “the vintage from hell.”
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Someone Else and Missouri
April 7th, 2011 by Tom Johnson
Christian Schiller, whose name sounds like Pat Robertson’s job description, does a complete write up on the Missouri wine conference I wrote incompletely about here. Mr. Schiller was attentive enough to record the winners of the tasting, which I missed entirely because I was out in the bar getting a bourbon. They are: Best White [...]
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Not the What or How, But the Who
April 6th, 2011 by Tom Johnson
Eric Asimov misses the point in reacting to a recent poll noting that most people don’t drink wine with food. He asks whether wine needs anything more than a glass. It’s not that I feel doctrinaire about drinking wine with food. I just think it’s better that way. For that matter, I prefer food with [...]
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Political Analysis of the Day
April 5th, 2011 by Tom Johnson
Joe, at 1 Wine Dude, on alcohol distributors’ actions in Congress: Their latest ploy has been the introduction of HR 1161 – called, strangely enough, the “CARE” act (for Community Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness Act of 2011?) but what I’d more accurately describe as the “SYFBWETBORA” act (for “Screwing You From Behind Without Even The Benefit [...]
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For Some Reason, I’m Not Annoyed
March 30th, 2011 by Tom Johnson
An interesting short profile of Brad Ball, an apparently teenaged sommelier who owns a wine bar in Charleston, South Carolina. Ball explored the world of branded wines aimed at Millennials and discovered it to be — these are my words not his — a cynical exercise in repackaging lousy wine. He puts it like this: [...]
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Isn’t It Always Riesling?
March 22nd, 2011 by Tom Johnson
The Wine Economist ponders The Next Big Thing (TNBT) in wine, and comes up with two nominees: Torontés and Moscato. Now to be honest, I don’t really care if Moscato becomes The Next Big Thing — I’m more interested in TNBT wine phenomenon itself. Many of the winemakers and winery executives I talk with around [...]
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Nuclear Fallout and the Wine Business
March 17th, 2011 by Tom Johnson
The Wine Economist has a story about how post-Chernobyl fear of nuclear contamination led to the creation of the Hedges Family Estate winery in Washington. Systembolaget, the Swedish national retail alcohol monopoly, faced a dilemma. Much of the red wine it sold came from regions of France that were squarely in the path of the western [...]
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I Know This One!
March 17th, 2011 by Tom Johnson
Researchers ask why hangovers get worse as we get older. The answer is, of course, that everything gets worse as we get older.
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Feeling a Little Insecure Today, Steve?
March 9th, 2011 by Tom Johnson
Steve Heimoff wants the rest of us to get the hell off of his lawn. Here’s a challenge to any blogger who thinks his/her overnight words are worth reading: write a 2,000 word article (much less a 100,000 word book) on the technical aspects of any wine, variety or region you choose. Make it coherent [...]
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Pinot No-Nos
March 7th, 2011 by Tom Johnson
Charlie Olken crafts rules for winemakers: Rule: Try to remember that your wines do not go with everything. Cracked crab, pizza and chocolate cake as wine recommendations might be fine, but not on the same label. A couple of weeks ago, I had a retailer explain to me that a Pinot Noir he was hawking [...]
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