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[Feeds.lovesicily.com] Food Blogs Live! | Blogging in the Food World: For the last few years - several years in fact - it seems that every wine commentator receives the baton to hail the return of Riesling to glorious popularity. Whether it is the lime-streaked versions from Australia or the estate wines of Germany (such as those highlighted in the Telegraph's piece Life Beyond Liebframilch) Riesling has forever been on the cusp of revival. Not that convinced myself. Never been a great fan of the grape really - although two stunning Austrian versions I sampled last Saturday (at the latest Ultimate Wine...

[Obsessionwithfood.com] An Obsession with Food: 11.2004: However long I write about food and wine, my happiest memories will always include the day in June of 2003 when Ed Behr bought a story idea from me. It was the first food/wine story I sold (though not the first to press), and I, along with lots of serious food lovers, have a ton of respect for Ed's quarterly The Art of Eating. Having my first story bought by AoE reminds me of when Melissa and I saw Ann Patchett speak. After numerous stories and (at the time) four books, including one bestseller, she still sounded shocked when she mentioned that she sold her first piece to The Paris Review.

[Vinography.com] Vinography: a wine blog: Wine Activities Archives: Put on by the Napa Valley Vintner's Association every year since 1981, this event originally was a low key, mostly local thing, where wealthy residents and members of the trade would get together and spend a lot of money for charity by purchasing lots of wine from various Napa wineries. A victim of its own success, this auction, still held every June, has become THE event in California Wine Country and the worlds largest wine auction with celebrity spotting, drunken revelry, and big cash laid out for wine. Last year it made a whopping $5.3 million dollars for local charities. Because of the massive scene it generated, members of the trade clamored for a lower key auction where they wouldn't have to compete with Anonymous bidders from Hong Kong willing to drop $200,000 on a few bottles of wine.

[Vinography.com] Vinography: a wine blog: December 2004 Archives: Named after the "humble ant," one of the few creatures that can survive in the difficult soils of the vineyard, this wine is one of several produced by a winery named Altos de Medrano, an estate jointly owned by Alberto Antonini, Marc De Grazia, Antonio Morescalchi, Attilio Pagli, Alan Scerbanenko and Antonio Terni all of whom are relatively well known Italian winemakers. These gentlemen are making a splash in Argentina, after some of their initial efforts gathered high scores and much acclaim from the international wine press. In addition to the Malbec (of which they also make a Reserve wine) Altos produces Syrah as well, thanks to the capable vineyard management of Carlos Vasquéz, who used to tend the vines at Catena, which is arguably Argentina's most well known producer.

[Vinography.com] Vinography: a wine blog: Vinitaly 2005: Verona, Italy. Final ...: The wines on offer were primarily the products of (in my opinion) by French winemakers. As Vinography readers may know, French growers were the first in the world to adopt Rudolf Steiner’s biodynamic approach to soils, vineyards and grape transformation processes. As a novice consumer of biodynamic wines, I focused my attention more on these French winemakers, with the hope of trying to understand some aspects of their biodynamic point of view those with more experience.

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