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[Avenue Vine] Last Saturday’s, May 21, 2005, Wines Tasted: Scribner Bend: Scribner Bend Winery ”˜02, Viognier: $9.95, (87pts.)-Brilliant, straw colored, medium intensity, showing pronounced legs; pungent aromas of fruit, apple citrus, tropical fruit-pineapple, hints of floral and oak; wonderful acidity, dry well balanced, moderately complex showing good quality; nice long tart finish-I liked it. What stood out was this wine’s uniform marks from fruit, acidity, length, body, quality, color intensity, aroma to sweetness-a very well rounded effort.
[Avenue Vine] Last Saturday’s, May 21, 2005, Wines Tasted: Scribner Bend: Scribner Bend Winery ”˜02, Viognier: $9.95, (87pts.)-Brilliant, straw colored, medium intensity, showing pronounced legs; pungent aromas of fruit, apple citrus, tropical fruit-pineapple, hints of floral and oak; wonderful acidity, dry well balanced, moderately complex showing good quality; nice long tart finish-I liked it. What stood out was this wine’s uniform marks from fruit, acidity, length, body, quality, color intensity, aroma to sweetness-a very well rounded effort.
[Purplesunshine.com] PurpleSunshine.com :: blog: When Guibert first appears on the screen, he is seen walking through a vineyard, glumly declaring, "Wine is dead." De Montille is also a fount of pessimism. In one of the film's loopier moments, he even tells Nossiter that the French wine industry's woes are the result of an American plot.The movie's official Web site is here but appears to be French-only.
[Mikeswinecellar.blogspot.com] Mike's Wine Blog: Professor Bainbridge thinks that many of the 24 states that have laws like this will decide to outlaw all wine shipments rather than allow interstate shipments. The reason for this is that those states have a small number of wineries and they are not a big part of the economy, so they do not have much political influence. The wine wholesalers and retailers will pressure the legislature to ban interstate wine shipments, because they do not want the competition. They will also use neo-prohibitionist arguments, like this would encourage sales to minors, even though there is no evidence that it does.
[Mikeswinecellar.blogspot.com] Mike's Wine Blog: 1996 and 2000 Bordeaux Tasting: I went my local wine retail Saturday and discovered they were having a tasting of 1996 and 2000 Bordeaux. For only $30 you could taste 6 1996s and 6 2000s, so of course I took the opportunity to taste these, and a few other wines they had open. This was a stand up tasting and the wines were tasted one at time, so there was no opportunity to really compare them or evaluate how they evolved with time in the glass. Because of the time I arrived, in many cases I got the bottom of the first bottle that had been open for several hours.
[Wineanorak.com] Jamie's wine blog: Held at the ultramodern Sanderson Hotel on Berner’s Street (aside: one of the most overtly stylish hotels I’ve seen – the lifts alone are unbelievable), it was conducted by famous wine scientist Pascal Chatonnet. Just over a dozen wine trade people and a girl who does recipes for Elle (who must have found this fabulously irrelevant to her magazine…) turned out and were treated to a succession of spiked wines (the same red wine was used throughout). The first three were various levels of TCA (2,4,6-trichloroanisole; 3, 6 and 12 nanograms per litre, all smelt musty). Then we had TBA (tribromoanisole) and TeCA (tetrachloroanisole), other musty taint compounds not found in wine, but which can contaminate wine in the winery environment.
[Vinography.com] Vinography: a wine blog: January 2004 Archives: The change in flavor produced by food and wine interactions was explored using descriptive analysis of Hollandaise sauce prepared with two levels of butter and three wines: a Chardonnay which was unoaked, acidified with 1.5 g/L citric acid or aged in oak for one year. To measure the effect of the sauce on wine flavor, the intensity of citrus, buttery, and toasted flavor by mouth and of sourness and bitterness was rated in each wine before and after each sauce was tasted. In a second testing series, lemon, brothy and creamy-butter flavor by mouth and creamy mouthfeel were rated for each sauce before and after tasting each wine. The effect of Hollandaise sauce on wine flavor was greater than the effect of wines on sauce flavor, with the higher fat sauce having a slightly larger effect overall.
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