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Light and heat in wine cellar Welcome to the world of lighting!) Compact fluorescents can screw into any incandescent socket anyway of course, as long as the rest of the fixture does not limit bulb... Light and heat in wine cellar I'm just beginning to build a wine cellar -- both in the sense of starting to collect wine for future use, and in deciding to build a small enclosed room in our basement for storing the... TN: Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Vertical I attended a vertical tasting of Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. This was a sit down tasting at a retailer, and the wines had been... Newb question about box wine Ed Rasimus Hello Ed, I don't mean to pick on you, I just wanted to contribute some stuff on the topic. I disagree with that. America would not be... Oh what hardship we have to endure while learning about the 6 major varieties of the grape. It was the next to last meeting in our... Newb question about box wine Yes, we've got a saying in the US, "nothing exceeds like excess" and we do... RO, was Three Questions About French & Australian Riesling Ian Hoare particular expensive things as a encouraged. and where alcohol Ian, During my visit to Bordeaux last year, virtually every Chateau that we... TN: Ch. Burbank Chardonnay 2001 Beautiful deep gold color with a fat and generous nose of caramel and grapefruit. In the mouth very chewy, burnt caramel, acacia honey, pineapple, vanilla and melons, a nice... Newb question about box wine Sender: Ian Salut-Hi Ed Rasimus, This is getting increasingly off topic, so I'll not continue the tread beyond... TN: Some Inexpensive 2001 Bordeaux 2001 Chateau Guibot, Puisseguin Saint-Emilion Dark, garnet. Nose is spicy with cherry and chbuttis. Fruit is spicy with cherry, high acid, moderate... Wine tips There are a few in this group who I would guess are trying to impress us with there wine prose... TN: good Lalande de Pomerol, dull Bdx & WA, some Burgs Betsy made a Mark Bittman recipe from Wednesday's NYT of spareribs with oil-cured olives. I opened... Newb question about box wine Saying "Rubbish" is a pretty strong and difficult argument to refute. But, I'd have to say the range of foods available (and selling... Parker Review of CA Pinot Noir I for one don't think so. But if you step back to a very long and inclusive focus -- embracing not only this moment and this issue... LAT:L Who's killing the great wines of France I don't have any stats for you Timothy, but I have noticed that my local state-owned store has fewer... Newb question about box wine Sender: Ian Salut-Hi pavane, le-on Sat, 05 Mar 2005 03:11:30 GMT, tu disais-you said:- Calm down. If someone with a name like John Frankenheimer III had said... Newb question about box wine pavane Stereotyping, yes. Guilty as charged. However, what's wrong with this particular stereotype? It is not something to be ashamed of. I really can't understand you guys - this... Newb question about box wine Elko Tchernev Elko, I read your comments and didn't find them offensive, but like any cultural stereotype they are at best crude generalizations. As an example, I offer myself. I am... Pablo Neruda Ode To Wine Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry... Newb question about box wine I can throw in my 2 cents comment, FWIW. But keep in mind that it will be biased, as I don't share much of the cola-raised American public's tastes... Newb question about box wine I was advised in early 2003 by my doctor to drink a glbutt of red wine daily. When I first started, I... OT Absinthe Robbienorth You can buy Absinthe in a number of countries (UK, Czech Repub., etc). I have purchased from this site and know it to be reputable: You cannot buy real absinthe in US or... Another Parker Interview I didn't see this interview, but in the past Parker has mentioned this issue specifically in the... Grosslagen in Austria long Mike, there is a fundamental difference between a Grolage in Germany and in Austria. As others have said, the German Grolagen are indistinguishable from Einzellagen... OT Absinthe That's slightly misleading. It is legal again in the EU and IIRC never was illegal in the UK or Portugal. The amount of Thujone (the active substance in Wormwood) however is regulated. Recent research shows... ShirazSyrah Port Question Hi J~ I think the reason you haven't found any info is because the wine is called Mitolo Jester Shiraz... Newb question about box wine As will be obvious shortly, I know nothing about wine. But I make a point... Another Parker Interview There was an article about 5-10 years ago in the LA Times that developed the... Pinotage from NZ Attending a recent trade tasting of NZ wines I came across some Pinotage from Muddy Waters in Waiparua (Sp?), and was knocked over by it. To me it was similar to local (Victoria... TN: 4 recent ones Arnaldo Caprai, Montefalco Rosso, 2001 Caprai's basic bottling, a blend of Sangiovese 70%, Sagrantino 15%, & Merlot 15%. The... Grosslage Hi Mike Ian was as always quite correct - but you have missed it a little bit :-) The Grosslage of Michelsberg straddles 7 village areas - namely Minheim, Piesport, Neumagen... LAT:L Who's killing the great wines of France Los Angeles Times WINE & SPIRITS Who's killing the great wines of France? Facing a crisis, the French wine industry is finally forced to... Some opened wines go bad overnight some do not On 2-3-05 3:03 pm, in article If only. I've been warned by my doctor not to drink anymore 7 or 8 bottles in an evening. And, after learning... Grosslage I do sympathise. Iëve never got truly to grips with the ënewë (ie. 1971) German clbuttification system whch took... Grosslage Sender: Ian Salut-Hi Mike Tommasi, Simple questions sometimes lead to hugely complex answers. I'll simplify as best I can. le-on Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:32:05 +0100, tu disais-you... Delmonico's NYC Wine List, late 1800s If this is the book I think it is (one that I borrowed from a chef friend... Peter Lehman Riesling 2003 Andrew Goldfinch Hello, Further to the thread, I'm going out for an Indian's tonight, so I thought I'd... Robert ParkerCharlie Rose interview Had lunch with Parker and Joel Butler in 1983. Butler was a friend of Marc DeGrazia. I got into retail about that time & tried to get DeGrazia's wines which were at DC's A... Better than vodka Is this the end of vodka? It may not be the end of vodka but it definitely gives the vodka makers a run for their... First time Pinot Noir question At first I wasn't going to respond to this, as it's such a broad question - and a compound one at that! ;^) As...

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