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Mom may be a commoner, but she can at least drink like a princess for Mother's Day without it costing Dad and family a king's ransom. The night before her wedding to Prince William, Kate Middleton (now the Duchess of Cambridge) dined with close friends and family at the Goring Hotel in London’s Belgravia district. According to
US Weekly, she chose the rather unpretentious Casa Lapostolle Sauvignon Blanc 2009 (costs about $50) to pair with her salmon blini starter, and entrée of steak Chateaubriand.
Kate Middleton's Sauvignon Blanc Cont'd
TagsChile wine, chilean wine, food and wine pairings, France, kate middleton, king edward vii, liqueurs, loire valley france, marnier lapostolle, orange liqueur, prince of wales, prince william, sauvignon blanc, terroir, Wine, winemaking
Posted in Wine Gifts, Wine News
We all know the Bible story of Jesus turning water into wine, but in the desert, water is the one thing you don't have and must pay an arm and a leg to get if you ever hope to produce wine. Winemaking in the desert may very well require turning "Blood Into Wine" ( as suggested by the title of
Tool and
A Perfect Circle front-man Maynard James Keenan's documentary), and the results may be just as ghastly. So, why would anybody want to grow wine in the desert when there are so many other well-established wine-producing areas?
First, young wine drinkers and sommeliers want the new and obscure. For example, Lagrein red wine grapes from the Italian region of Alto Adige which borders Austria is rare to the point of obscurity and growing in popularity. Patagonia in Argentina however, is both a new wine producing region and obscure. After all, Patagonia is synonymous with Mandalay or Timbuktu, a metaphor for the ultimate or the ends of the Earth. Who doesn't want a souvenir from the edge of the known world?
Wine in the Desert Cont'd
TagsArgentina Wine, Arizona Wine, Blood Into Wine, Bodega del Fin del Mundo, Bodega Noemia, irrigation, local economy, Malbec, Maynard James Keenan, Patagonia, Pinot Noir, sustainability, terroir, winemaking
Posted in Wine Trends
It's HOT! In fact, climatologists predict that 2010 will be the hottest year on record worldwide, due in large part to El Nino, the tropical climate pattern that warms the Pacific every five to seven years. But, that didn't stop the folks at the Finger Lakes Wine Festival this weekend in Watkins Glen, NY. In fact the Finger Lakes are doing very well in the heat. Winemakers in the region are enjoying advanced ripening in the vineyards this year, compared to the wet, challenging season of 2009. More time on the vine in hot, dry weather may give winemakers a chance to quiet a few more critics of Finger Lakes red wine. But, it's doing great things for Riesling.
Summer Wine Festival Round-up Cont'd
Tagschateau ste michelle, finger lakes wine, finger lakes wine festival, global warming, music, New York, Reisling, Seattle, sweet wines, watkins glen international, watkins glen ny, Wine Tasting, winemaking
Posted in Wine Tasting
According to an obituary published yesterday by the Corriere Fiorentino, Bettino Ricasoli, 87, the great-great-grandson of “Iron Baron” Bettino Ricasoli and steward of one of the leading families of Chianti Classico, has died.
Although he never published a “formula” or “recipe” for Chianti (as many erroneously claim), Bettino Ricasoli (1809-1880) reshaped the history of Chianti and Tuscan winemaking in the 19th century when he famously declared that Sangiovese (or Sangioveto, as the Tuscan clone of Sangiovese was known then) was the ideal grape for the production of fine wine there. In an often cited but rarely revisited 1872 letter to Professor Cesare Studiati of Pisa, Ricasoli described the process of study that led to the replanting of his Castello di Brolio estate in Gaiole in Chianti (one of the core townships of Chianti Classico).
TagsBettino Ricasoli, chianti classico, chianti wine, Sangiovese, winemaking
Posted in Wine News
Schramsberg Vineyards in the Napa Valley makes sparkling wine that many believe is the rival of French Champagne. It has been served at White House dinners, and famously in 1972 President Richard Nixon took
Schramsberg's Blanc de Blancs to China for the "Toast to Peace" dinner with Premier Zhou Enlai. Unfortunately for everyone, the winery is now embroiled in a family feud that threatens to tear apart the wine dynasty. Considering the winery's historic connection to China, from its caves, which were hand-dug by Chinese immigrant laborers in 1880, to President Nixon in 1972, perhaps the Chinese can send some wine to help settle the dispute (and I don't mean sake). Labeled by some as the "new Chile" China is the sixth largest wine-producing country in the world.
Tagscalifornia wine, chinese wine, Napa Valley, Schramsberg Vineyards, sparkling wine, winemaking
Posted in Sparkling Wine
That expensive case of Burgundy has been stunning so far, then all of a sudden, a bad bottle. Same wine, same case, it's inexplicable. Or, maybe you're drinking on a "Root Day." Every day is designated either a root, flower, fruit or leaf in
Maria and Matthias K Thun’s Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar (flower and fruit being best for wine tasting). This concept may cause some snickering, but biodynamics is taken very seriously in the vinyard these days. Many world-class estates such as Domaine Leroy in Burgundy, Michel Chapoutier in the Rhone have become committed biodynamic properties over the past decade. Click here for a more
indepth discussion of organic and biodynamic wine.
Tagsbiodynamic wine, Matthias Thun, organic wine, Sowing and Planting Calendar, Wine Tasting, winemaking
Posted in Wine Tasting
