Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Zidarich for a chilly day

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This post takes us to Slovenia, by way of Greenwich Village. A winter weekend lunch in a now chilled Manhattan, wind finding its icicle way ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Talking wine

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Often times, as wine fiends, we think we know our tastes, supremely confident in the knowns and unknowns to us, the preferred and the shunne...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

The Wine Importer, Joe Dressner

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Joe Dressner has left us. I choose that expression carefully. In concrete reality, he passed away from brain cancer on Saturday morning. Als...
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Thursday, September 08, 2011

Catching wine

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I just read an amusing article about a drunk elk that got caught in a tree in Sweden. Apparently, it was running after fermenting apples. F...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Rats

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When I was a teenager, I liked to talk with my uncle about his early days training as a clinical psychologist. We would talk about the diffe...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Earth and wine in Champagne

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Champagne is not dead!* It is fairly telling that a tasting organized by a group of like-minded young Champagne growers and held on a sunny ...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Stay tuned...

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Lurker

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When people have asked me over the course of the past mumblemumble many weeks why I've been away from my blog, I've responded, ...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Christmas lights and bubbles

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A lot of people haul out champagne for the holidays; it's like that, it's suggestive. I, however, as someone who guzzles the stuff a...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

As the wine turns

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–Flashback– Seamus wasn’t looking quite himself this morning. I'd made a Halloween pumpkin, carved out a carefully plotted set of eyes, ...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Very pale bubbles

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Oh, psssh, this blog hasn't flatlined, what are you talking about?* Mysteriously, no post has appeared in two months. It could be that t...
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Wine & film

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Every summer from mid-July to early August there is an outdoor cinema festival at the Parc de la Villette in the northeast corner of Paris. ...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Proust for winos (or vice versa)

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I had a madeleine the other day. Not the tea cake, but y'know, one of those things that jogs you, like a cobblestone sticking up that ca...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Hello, Grenache gris!

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This is my latest thrill. And it's thrilling* 2008 Domaine de L'Anglore "Sels d'Argent," which I tasted a couple of m...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

The "T" word, followed by the "N" word

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I have nothing against tasting notes. Truly I don't. Some people write such lively and lovely ones, one wants to read them for the joy o...
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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Vin nature & andouillette... nature

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Terroir, yes, indeed. It is often said—and rightly so, I think—that the foods and wines of a region flush, by nature. Some kind of terroir s...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Still bubbling up

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Unable to contain myself, I have returned to my frequent thematic stomping ground of farmer fizz. Just up, a guest post scribed by me for my...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

A Pommard. Like that.

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Yes, Pommard. It's one of those things that people who don't know anything about wine know. Like Châteauneuf-du-Pape or Margaux. The...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Good nature: gamay

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After several days in the Loire Valley tasting natural wines, I find myself back in Paris. Natural wines hold pride of place hereabouts, as ...
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Saturday, February 06, 2010

Color in blanc de noirs

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At a recent day of tasting in the small Loire village of Valaire, I joined champagne vigneron Olivier Collin at a table full of Italian wine...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Unexpected addiction

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It was a month and a half ago, back in the dim gloom of mid-December, as the days were pulling tight and the dark, cold curtain of night fel...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Fizz, fizz

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For all those who have an unquenchable thirst for more about champagne, surf away immediately to the excellent website Paris By Appointment ...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

As the palate turns

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It's the end of the year, but I'm not going to do a "best of" or "top #" post. I'm just not. In fact, I'...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

White, black, white

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The intention was obviously to write about an astounding champagne I'd had a few weeks ago. But then other great bubbles came my way, an...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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It's mushroom season; we're in the thick of it, and beneath, say, a squab en crapaudine or a ballotine of wild duck will be a litt...
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Glug

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It's November and is almost time for the "new" wines to come out. I got an early taste of one a couple of days ago when I stop...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Mushrooms, boar and blood

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It was a dark, dark, dark fall night. The wind was whipping, and garish bright lights festooned the outside of the Cirque d'Hiver, where...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

A mouthful of pig and a handful of grapes

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I love those sticky, fatty, piggy dishes, especially as in Paris, autumn is starting to cool down the air and a cold breeze sometimes picks ...
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Friday, October 09, 2009

Py in the sky

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Paris may not be Rome, but it does have a few hills. Accordingly, I like walking up to the heights of Belleville to stop in at Le Baratin. L...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

A trio of St. Joes

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At the bar at Fish, things were getting loud. We'd gone through some Gatinois champagne and some ethereal form of Alsatian riesling; now...
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