Following my recent post touching ever so briefly on the sensory experience of perfume and wine, I wanted to share John Lancaster’s excellent article from the New Yorker’s March 10 Style Issue. Maybe it’s already made the rounds, but since the New Yorker is something I have a hard time keeping up with, and since [...]
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Posted in humor, music, rants, wine and technology, tagged Etat Libre D'Orange, Paris Hilton Prosecco, Patrick Suskind, Perfume, Wine and Perfume, Wine Sensory on March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
…Or maybe not if you fear a little funque in your wine.
I believe that the perfume and wine worlds occupy similar rings in the sensory universe (anybody read Patrick Suskind’s Perfume?).
In a move that reflects the sensory aspirations of both worlds–and which could make even the most flowery wine writer choke on his or her [...]
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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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Okay, maybe not. And knowing my mother, she’s bound to spend hours looking for this thing were I to mention it. But here’s a link to a funny (and disturbing) little French video about technology and wine. At least, this sort of expresses how I sometimes feel when I see those two words together, ‘wine’ [...]
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