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[Gordon's Fine Wines and Liquors] Nossiter really does offer excellent insight into this ever-evolving multi-generational industry, and films in such a way that really makes you feel like an insider. This is sure to be an intellectual, multi-sensory, and delectable experience - a unique way to spend a Friday evening with friends or that special someone.

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[Greater Boston Wine Tasting and Dinners from LocalWineEvents.com] Dinner & Movie: Mondovino & Il Capriccio: Mondovino, by Jonathan Nossiter, exposes the wine world from top to bottom, new world to old. Properties changing hands, foreign names brought across country lines and oceans, the collapse of the "mom & pop" grower, and the "globalization" or "Parkerization" of the wine industry are just some of the themes Nossiter explores in this 2005 documentary, which highlights the people (and vineyards) that shape the modern wine world: Robert Parker, whose palate is so significant his nose is literally insured;

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[The Pour] Italy Announces Findings in Brunello di Montalcino Probe - The ...: And if they don’t, chances are that the buyers in the stores and restaurants do, even if only to know what will be a hot sell this month, week, whatever. So I think you should reconsider your statement - the american wine buying public is largely influenced by scores and reviews, and although those publications don’t influence all sales, they do have a very, very significant influence on wine sales in general.

[Good Taste Report] Breed Performers: The Burklin-Wolf Estate has been working by environmentally-friendly guidelines for over 20 years, not using herbicides and adhering to a disease-tolerance concept. In 2001, four Riesling vineyards with a total area of 7 hectares were converted to biodynamic viticulture.

[Today's Filmbug Top 10] Jonathan Nossiter @ Filmbug: It was theatrically released in the U.S. in 1992 and was shown in numerous countries (including the BBC in England, Berlin Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival). His documentaries include Losing The Thread, (2001) for RAI in Italy and the Sundance Channel in the U.S., an hour long film on art fraud, tourism and the male ego in Tuscany (premiere Rotterdam Festival) and Searching for Arthur, a look at Arthur Penn in New York, for Telepiu's Italian series Directors on Directors (premiere at Locarno Festival) and Making Mischief, a half hour, personal documentary diary of the preparations for Signs & Wonders.

[Appetite For Discussion] Appetite For Discussion » Blog Archive » Vino Pulito Please: domain, but also simplifying the taste and expectations from this rich and diversified sensory universe, adulating high concentration, high alcohol at ridiculous levels of 15 and 16 degrees used normally in fortified wine like Porto or Sherry combined with forced late harvest, water additions, induced yeast inoculation, temperature and oxygen controlled tanks, new oak barrels and bags and bags of acid, tannin powder, oak chips, and whatever is needed to get those damned points which eventually would translate in huge sales. New World wine countries like Chile, Argentina and Australia have adopted quickly the “Parker taste”

[The Pour] A Tuscan With a Mind of Its Own - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com: When many others started blending Sangiovese with Cabernet and Merlot so they could improve their wines, Sergio was the only producer who had the courage to go against all odds and make a 100% Sangiovese outside of all appellations and regulations, … and thanks to that uncompromized approach to the true identity of the place we have today Le Pergole Torte, one of the true monuments of Tuscan character.

[Osteria L'Intrepido di Milano] What does it take to get a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence ...: I have been in the Wine World for 30 years and have known Thomas Mathews as a true gentleman.He brought polish to what was a very unrefined magazine .At the beginning Marvin Shanken was very miserly in allowing Mathews to build a magazine to its current level.In many ways today it competes quit well against the Advocate.In no way do I believe they are mistake proof we have seen that New York Times and Washington post have been deceived.Robert Parker has many notorious change of minds most famously on the 1983 Burgundy’s .

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