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What Belongs to the Day: Easy Buy: Clos Roche Blanche
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What Belongs to the Day. My thoughts on thoughts, art and the finer things in life, especially wine. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Easy Buy: Clos Roche Blanche. Completely guilt free wines, this producer was making wines organically before it was all the rage to do so and vinification is in a decidedly non-interventionist way. These wines deliver wonderful purity of fruit and food-friendly acidity at affordable prices (all under $20); what's not to like? 2006 Sauvignon No. 2. 2006 Sauvignon No. 5. More inte...
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What Belongs to the Day: Wine Violence-A Poem by Ben Sherwin
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What Belongs to the Day. My thoughts on thoughts, art and the finer things in life, especially wine. Thursday, October 23, 2008. Wine Violence-A Poem by Ben Sherwin. Should a wine jump from the glass. As I've seen in people's notes? Should it punch you in the nose. Or grab you by the throat? Is it safe to drink a wine. That makes you shake and stammer? Will it leap out from your Riedel. And hit you like a hammer? Don't get me wrong dear reader,. I don't want a wine that's silent. Sharp edges now softened.
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What Belongs to the Day: March 2008
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What Belongs to the Day. My thoughts on thoughts, art and the finer things in life, especially wine. Saturday, March 29, 2008. Is 100 Points an Albatross for a Wine? At the end of the day, it is what in the glass that counts. We should approach a wine without prejudice, but is it possible to approach a wine without expectations? Thursday, March 27, 2008. So, where would be a good place to start? Can be had for a reasonable price in "off" vintage. Where would you start? Tuesday, March 18, 2008. Balanced w...
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What Belongs to the Day: First Customer at UWS Shake Shack? Me!
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What Belongs to the Day. My thoughts on thoughts, art and the finer things in life, especially wine. Sunday, October 19, 2008. First Customer at UWS Shake Shack? Oh, show off! October 20, 2008 at 12:58 PM. Did you inquire about their corkage policy? October 22, 2008 at 10:07 AM. You know, Gary, I didn't. I'll probably be back on Saturday night and I will ask. October 22, 2008 at 10:50 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Wine Violence-A Poem by Ben Sherwin. First Customer at UWS Shake Shack? The day w...
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What Belongs to the Day: Dinner without Julien Barrot of Domaine de Barroche
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What Belongs to the Day. My thoughts on thoughts, art and the finer things in life, especially wine. Friday, November 7, 2008. Dinner without Julien Barrot of Domaine de Barroche. Thursday." Somewhere between Julien's broken English and Brad's broken English, they had miscommunicated (note "jeudi prochain" means next Thursday). We still had reservations and the affable Jim Gallagher was to stand in for Barrot and we had the lovely 2005 Belle Côte. After draining the Belle Côte and chewing the sediment, w...
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What Belongs to the Day: February 2010
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What Belongs to the Day. My thoughts on thoughts, art and the finer things in life, especially wine. Saturday, February 6, 2010. Trevor in Paris-Part II-An imagined morning with real tasting notes. He asked. "Water, I replied." I lay there for awhile listing to Sam snore lightly under the great duvet. She didn't move when I got up to follow Frank to the kitchen. He confirmed as he tapped the neck of an empty 1985 Dom Pérignon bottle. "You're a saint, Frank. Empty? Oh, I know." "It wasn't that full in...
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What Belongs to the Day: April 2008
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What Belongs to the Day. My thoughts on thoughts, art and the finer things in life, especially wine. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Easy Buy: Clos Roche Blanche. Completely guilt free wines, this producer was making wines organically before it was all the rage to do so and vinification is in a decidedly non-interventionist way. These wines deliver wonderful purity of fruit and food-friendly acidity at affordable prices (all under $20); what's not to like? 2006 Sauvignon No. 2. 2006 Sauvignon No. 5. More inte...
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What Belongs to the Day: I'm getting notes of manganese...
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What Belongs to the Day. My thoughts on thoughts, art and the finer things in life, especially wine. Wednesday, November 5, 2008. I'm getting notes of manganese. Wine lovers often find notes of iron or gunmetal in certain types of wines, such as cool-climate Syrah or Bordeaux blends. I doubt any of those flavors are linked to this report in Scientific American. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). On the recommendation of my friend Jay Miller (no. Dinner without Julien Barrot of Domaine de Barroch. The de...
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What Belongs to the Day: Angry Cabbies
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What Belongs to the Day. My thoughts on thoughts, art and the finer things in life, especially wine. Friday, September 19, 2008. The first wine of the night was a 2007 barrel sample of Steve's nascent project, tentatively called Congruence. He was toying with the idea of using his name instead. "You're going to call your wine Steve? Having gone through the preliminaries, we moved on to the first two vintages of Maybach. I have had the 2004 Maybach. Initially seemed to be the same wine as the regular BTK,...
