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[Green Inc.] French Winemakers Sound Alarm Over Climate Change - Green Inc ...: A few wine regions in France have also benefited from recent changes. For example, higher average temperatures in Champagne have prompted earlier blooming and earlier grape harvests, along with better maturation of grapes and much stronger yields.

[The Vine Route] The future of wine tourism is already there: Most of the small, family-owned vineyards that I write about in The Vine Route view the printing of business cards as a major marketing investment, so I didn’t really see how displaying fine art within the winery might be relevant to them, but I do think that French wine regions outside of the well-known Bordeaux and Burgundy appellations could market themselves much more aggressively. And ever since I did some consulting work with the Chianti Classico “Gallo Nero” wine consortium in the mid-1990s, I have been fascinated with the synergetic power of wine, beautiful landscapes, history and culture, and good food.

[The Reeler] The Reeler > Features > <i>Mondovino</i> Takes the Scenic Route: hen director Jonathan Nossiter set out to make his documentary Mondovino -- an exploration into the world of wine and winemakers -- he wasn't only shooting one cohesive film; he was simultaneously fashioning a series that he hoped would be like chapters in a novel.

[Reign of Terroir] Neal Rosenthal, Farmer, Beekeeper, Wine Agonist, pt.2 | Reign of ...: Whether it had the impact, I think the positive element, the positive impact that Mondovino has had is that it engaged more people, it stimulated more discussion. And I think there is a growing…, there is more awareness of the tension in the marketplace between large and small, the surge of homogeneity and the contrary movement towards more unique, specific limited production wines, I think that is all to the good.

[The Wine Economist] Flying Winemakers and the Glocalization of Wine « The Wine Economist: There are two other Long Shadows products that we didn’t get to taste.  Chester Kidder Red wine is an eclectic blend make by Giles Nicault and Saggi is a supertuscan blend made by the Folonari brothers, who should know how to make such a wine.  Poet’s Leap sells for about $20 and the red wines go for $45 to $60 per bottle according to my copy of The Wine Advocate, although the winery’s website says that they are sold out.  Tasting some famous “impossible to get” wines and the chance to buy a few bottles –

[Vine Designs] Fear of Flying?: Rolland was vilified in the documentary Mondovino as a cigarillo-puffing gadabout being ferried from winery to winery in his chauffeured Mercedes, applying the same bag of winemaking tricks to every winery.he film’s message was that Rolland was contributing to the homogenization of global wine styles and the destruction of individual character that makes wines distinctively different from every country and vineyard. But the message was a distortion of the truth.

[Wine Tasting Guy] Subtle differences in wine | Wine Tasting Guy: While traveling in Northern California a few months ago I found many of the Cabernet (or cab based blends) wines to have many very similar attributes - almost so much so that their differences became blurry. I have found Israeli wines to possess a common flavor profile (that while common throughout Israel is also unique TO Israel).

[Beer Culture] Beer Culture - the Czech Beer Blog » Blog Archive » Bamberger ...: Well, that’s what seems to be happening with beer ”” not in the sense of the preeminence of a single critic, not in the sense of people tasting 20 Doppelbocks in a session, and not in the sense of judges spraying the world’s greatest brews into a spittoon. Rather, it’s happening in the sense that the loud, noisy beers, if you will, are the ones that are getting noticed in the crowd, rather than the elegant and understated beers that you’d want to bring home to Mom and Dad.

[The Pour] Wines With a Difference - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com: Though Nossiter’s film (Mondovino) had important virtues in its call for appreciation of wines of distinct terroir and its cautions regarding globalization, the film’s most prominent goof was its failure to recognize the peasant-born technique of microbullage which saved Madiran from globalization and preserved the tannat tradition there in the wake of the wave of post WWII modernization, the stainless steel/inert gas/sterile filtration winemaking formula which gave rise to beautiful new styles like off-dry rieslings in Germany but also the disastrous French red wine stylistic crisis that its winemakers are only now beginning to comprehend and deal with.

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