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Wine Terrorists?

Posted in globalization, wine, tagged , , on August 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »

(Above: Not the best way to rack your wine. From Time: A commando vineyard owner empties one of 13 wine tanks filled with Chilean wine in Nimes, France. Photo Credit: Pascal Parrot / Getty)
Perhaps adding some real bite to the enoterm terroirist, there’s an article at Time Magazine about the recent explosion of a homemade [...]

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Remembering Genoa

Posted in globalization, italy, rants, tagged , , , on July 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

(Above: The heavy boots of the Italian military police. Image courtesy of Indymedia)
Yesterday marked a grim anniversary of sorts. Seven years ago on July 21, during the tumultuous G8 conference hosted by Italy in the Ligurian city of Genoa, Italian riot police stormed the Diaz Petrini school which had been officially designated a housing center [...]

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Steal This Film

Posted in globalization, music, wine and technology, tagged , on January 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »

When I first met my friend Alan Toner in Rome in 2003, he was always toting around this oversized backpack that contained both a laptop and a digital video camera, and possibly a change of clothes. Last year, our paths crossed at VinItaly in Verona and we had a hilarious escapade on foot and bus [...]

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Meteorites, Terroir and a Not So Bella Italia

Posted in friday linkfest, globalization, italy, tagged , on December 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Friday’s linkfest happens on Saturday this week. Oh, the holidays. Busy anyone?
The sky is falling. And falling into my glass. At first glance this Wired article about meteorite impacts on the ancient Earth might not seem to have much to do with the concept of terroir. However, as I thought more about it, and [...]

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