Gourmets of Wine

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[Alice's_Wonderland] May Day is Lei Day: of touch. Civilization! I've been able to do a lot of reading and post some comments to people's stories... a couple of dreams: The weird one was I was at a wine tasting party with zoo animals and a beetle was stuck on my big toe. The Gewurztraminer was devine as was the Shiraz. The other dream was about our

[S u m i t h . c o m] Grape Expectations: I heard lot of stories about NSW wine country and this weekend i finally made it to Hunter valley. We were heading towards Hunter valley on the Sydney-New Castle freeway then we took this route called as scenic drive which was a exit off freeway to Peats Ridge and then started this very pleasant drive through some peaceful, picturesque and sparsely populated countryside, with just the occasional timber cottage adjacent the road or on the hillside. The beginning of the Hunter valley region starts at Wollombi a historic rural village in the mountains south of the Hunter Valley. Wollombi is 29 km south-west of Cessnock and 142 km north of Sydney.

[Shirazshiraz.blogspot.com] Shiraz: Davies worked in a wine shop just around he corner from Pickett. In 1998, Pickett and Gittens ”˜took a road trip up to the Santa Ynez Valley to taste some wine and play some golf. "He was a long time divorced," says Davies, "but he had learned that his ex-wife was about to remarry." (Gittens says that Davies was invited on the trip but had to work; Davies has no memory of this.) The trip started Pickett on a novel, and in '99, he showed Davies the manuscript, then entitled Two Guys on Wine, "which was a horrible title. He used it because they stopped at Fess Parker winery, and Fess actually signed a magnum to Two Guys on Wine."'

[Shirazshiraz.blogspot.com] Shiraz: Davies worked in a wine shop just around he corner from Pickett. In 1998, Pickett and Gittens ”˜took a road trip up to the Santa Ynez Valley to taste some wine and play some golf. "He was a long time divorced," says Davies, "but he had learned that his ex-wife was about to remarry." (Gittens says that Davies was invited on the trip but had to work; Davies has no memory of this.) The trip started Pickett on a novel, and in '99, he showed Davies the manuscript, then entitled Two Guys on Wine, "which was a horrible title. He used it because they stopped at Fess Parker winery, and Fess actually signed a magnum to Two Guys on Wine."'

[Shirazshiraz.blogspot.com] Shiraz: It caused a sensation when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival with its depiction of globetrotting consultants and corporations eager to appeal to the widest possible market. It also describes established wineries trying to hold onto traditions. Beth Accomando of member station KPBS reports.) If that gets too heavy there are other wine related stories at the same page.

[Vinography.com] Vinography: a wine blog: Vinography/Manresa Wine Dinner Recap: Speaking of interesting wine stories .From the Soif Wine Bar update, I was quite surprised to read the following entry: "As one might expect from a man who acquired his winery through a leg-wrestling match, this wine is rich and elegant with full flavors of apricot, honey, crème brûlée & almond paste. And, it is an excellent value." Of course it was the leg-wrestling match reference that gave me pause. The wine -- Confit de la Colline Côtes de Bergerac 2001 (100% Semillon).

[Vinography.com] Vinography: a wine blog: My Conversation With Robert M. Parker, Jr.: At the end of the tasting I mentioned to him the remarkably different way he approached the wines in a setting like this -- the stories, the casual way of describing the wines. In addition to admitting perhaps a bit of this enthusiasm and informality might not come through in his writing, he said that while he tries to give some background on the wines that he reviews, that he simply can’t tell such stories about every wine, and that meant really that he couldn’t tell stories about any of them. I begrudgingly suppose this is true – the man is so serious about his job as impartial critic that perhaps these charming, informative, and enticing stories are perhaps too close to favoritism for him to abide. It’s a shame though, because as I am back to interacting with Parker through the stripped down, formal pages of his newsletter, I can’t help but remember that behind the sometimes frustratingly terse notes Parker and I speak exactly the same language.

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