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Recent Search Strings, or, “Are Wine Writers Parasites?”

Posted in humor, wine and technology, tagged , , , on October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Like many bloggers or other new media junkies, I’m just a little obsessed with checking at my stats counter. Looking at the terms and phrases people use to navigate the internet can be enlightening, entertaining and, well, rather creepy. Below, a snapshot of yesterday’s and today’s (thus far) searches that brought people here.
Oh, internet. You’re [...]

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Building Community

Posted in natural wine, san francisco, tasting wine, wine and technology, wine industry, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Above: The new tools of the trade?
One of my favorite aspects about the wine, specialty cocktail and food business is that it builds communities, from casual tasting groups to communal neighborhood gardens. And this is one reason tools like blogging, twitter, Chowhound and (gasp) even Yelp are so well-suited to the food and wine world, [...]

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The New Ancient Anfora

Posted in wine and technology, winemaking on May 17, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I found myself in Sonoma County last week where I finally got to see one of the so-called ‘egg fermenters’ firsthand. Cast from concrete and inspired by the clay anfora vessels used in ancient winemaking practices (and most famously these days by Josko Gravner), the purpose of the egg is to maintain a steady temperature [...]

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Is Corkscrew a Yoga Pose?

Posted in friday linkfest, wine and technology, wine events, tagged , , , , on February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

(Above: My new favorite corkscrew.)
I spent most of last week in the Napa Valley at the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers, to which I’d won a fellowship. The symposium takes place at Meadowood and the Culinary Institute of America’s Greystone (CIA) campus, and like other retreats of its kind, it’s an opportunity to step out [...]

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More Olfactory Delights

Posted in tasting wine, wine and technology, tagged , , , on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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Olfactory Delights

Posted in humor, music, rants, wine and technology, tagged , , , , , 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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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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What I want for christmas!

Posted in humor, wine and technology on December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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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