Dubai or not Dubai…
We were recently in receipt of the following email at the office of Wine Industry Report.
< < aida wrote:
You should stop 4th Dubai International Wine & Beverage Fair, there are more than 100 non muslim country to make ur fair their, why did u choose muslims and arabic countries, you know that drinking [...]
1787 - was it even a good year? Continued/…
So, I was about to tell you about Yquem..
..but then a book flopped through my letterbox - An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson* by James Gabler (published by Bacchus Press Ltd, Florida). What an ingenious idea. To create a fictional character who sits down with these two great figures from history and [...]
1787…was it even a good year?
I must confess that I experienced a faint sense of schadenfreude on reading Decanter’s (decanter.com) error over their story of the recent sale of the bottle of the 1787 Château d’Yquem. Here it is:
“Ancient Yquem becomes most expensive bottle ever CORRECTION
On 10 February we ran the following story which we have now corrected: the [...]
Wine and walnut pairing…
Still on the subject of food and wine pairing…
I’ve been reading the Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669…again. If you have never done so can I recommend it to you? A fascinating insight into London life in the 17th century. There are a few references to wine (much has been written on these) and I just [...]
Hard cheese-
Having spoken to Philippe Marques for our People in Wine programme just before Christmas and learnt that Alain Senderens the great French chef had spent his whole life trying to tell people that red wine and cheese don’t go together, it was interesting to see these results confimed in a more scientific way. Incidentally Monsieur [...]
Pinot - the parties in the first part
We’ve posted our latest podcast entitled Pinot Noir Around the World Part I. That’s right… we’ve had to divide our material into two parts because we had so much of it. I think the interviews we have with the winemakers are fascinating - they all have hugely different backgrounds - and yet united in their [...]
Martin Luther King Day
The eloquence of Martin Luther King, his ideals and his vision inspired millions.
I thought I would use this blog to remember him and provide further inspiration through the voice of another figure whom I admire - Graca Michel. Graca Michel, the wife of Nelson Mandela is a social scientist and here she is talking [...]
Scores, scores, scores… and DRC Romanèe Conti 2002
Oh dear… this is that terrible business of wine scoring again. Tom Wark over at Fermentations makes a point that perhaps we should draw distinctions between a $1600 wine and one that, well, costs a lot less… See here The Wine Critic’s Responsibility & the $1600 Wine. Of course, this isn’t a new story, far [...]
A Presidential Wine Club…
…not bad for just $39.95 per month.
Bob Dickinson CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines is a serious wine collector. He has taken his passion and is making his knowledge and enthusiasm available to other wine enthusiasts. A wonderful idea.
The site’s blurb says that “The Presidential Wine Club provides a wide variety of features and [...]
The wine has ’swing’: or, wine as jazz and vice versa
I recently came across this interesting analogy entitled ‘Does jazz rejoice the heart’? I make no apologies for the fact it was written for a jazz festival 12 years ago (1993), since its currency is obvious. Xavier Felgeyrolles wrote it to promote
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A short uncritical look at some of blog au vin’s blog roll
I thought that a review of the different blogs featured in our blog roll on Blog au Vin (I hope that’s not too many ‘blogs’ for you) would be interesting from a number of points of view. First, if you’re unable to keep up [...]
Happy New Year!
I always enjoy this time of year: to discover just how ingenious people can be with their cards, emails and other seasonal offerings. So, think of my delight when the latest calendar from the Movimento Turismo del Vino Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) came flopping through my postbox.
Since the year 2000 they have organised a competition [...]
Does terroir matter? Apparently not…
Following on from a few contributions in our Forum over at Fine Wine I was prompted to do some additional research and came across a paper - Natural endowments, production technologies and the quality of wines in Bordeaux. Does terroir matter? by two French academics published in August 2005. By taking into account the critical [...]
Tongue, teeth and taste
There has been some talk on the internet of reported interviews with Professor Patrick Mac Leod and in particular two things which seemed astonishing: that the old and much quoted tongue map hypothesis (where different parts of the tongue corresponded to areas where the key elements of taste could be perceived: sweetness, bitterness, acidity etc) [...]
People in Wine: Lesson Number One
Frank Swainston (below), in his kitchen at Constantia Uitsig, Cape Town , South Africa.
Our latest podcast People in Wine Special: food and wine matching, is available for download on whichever podcatcher you favour. You can also listen online at our main website - www.finewinepress.com. It is a special year-end edition and hence longer [...]
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