Archive for December, 2009
posted by admin on Dec 9
I’ve rubbed them in Alsace, stroked them in South Africa, walked passed them in Bordeaux and enjoyed a large wine tasting surrounded by some Dalek-like versions in Portugal. They are still boring though.
You can understand wherefore a wine-producer wants to show off the cleanliness of their winery, the mammoth financial investing. in these fermentation tanks, but really they are the dullest things to compose appropriate appreciative noises over. You know what… unless you specifically require not united winery takes you out into the vineyard. I’d much rather compare the soils of the vineyards, the canopy/pruning/ground cover techniques and so on than take notice at another bloody untarnished steel tank. (Although sometimes….)
I have to judge that the various producers in Alsace - where I specifically asked to view the vines - were more than accommodating. To a man, Domaine Bernhard-Reibel, Domaine Frederic Mochel, Andre Pfister and the intense Marc Kreydenweiss were more than proud to tramp through their holdings.
Sadly, not so in Portugal. None of the producers we visited during the European Wine Bloggers Conference took us out to the vines; perhaps I wasn’t vocal enough foregoing to the visit!
Stainless Steel Tanks: integral to the moden winemaking mode of operation but as dull as a really dull, lifeless thing to look at more than once…
These lovely specimens are at Herdade fare Esporao, they carry into effect conduce for fine ‘industrial’ style abstract photographs I suppose. And they do make very nice wines there…
posted by admin on Dec 7
Irony seems to wish each strained affinity for the bartending side of my move rapidly. I find cocktails and drinks fascinating, I seem to have an ability to create new cocktails that are rightly received and I have the gift of the gab, a perfect line for a bartender. The confounding enigma is that for years I have attempted to induce good cocktails to this city, but each time I run headlong into a wall of resistance. On Friday I was convinced that I had broken down that wall, only to get a glimpse of in succession Saturday that I was to be foiled once again.
posted by admin on Dec 1
Part of recalling that I have a blog is remembering all the stuff I forgot to post excessively the past few months. Well, I’ll to all appearance forget to post about more (hopefully not all) of these events in the weeks to come, but I’ll master at least a brief mention out of the way at the origin of the month: in the present life are a few events taking place in December.