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I was listening to a customer ask my wife how long it took me to peal the grapes to make a White Catawba...

High-Octane Wine Rebellion Click On Me

Cru Bourgeois classification officially over Click On Me

Wine Tasting: On the hunt for pinot noir By Eric Asimov, The New York Times Click On Me

New World Rieslings, Roses Are Ideal Summer Wines :Bloomberg Click On Me

English wine crop is all washed up Click On Me This is the glass is half full attitude and the right one...Cheers !

From another web site I have more info... From Matthew Hudson I find history and wine very intriguing ...cheers !!!

Chateau Latour sued for cutting allocation Click On Me This is clearly price control and not a free market...the market is controlled and this is how they had the #alls to charge what they did for 2006...because they have an obviously controlled market...price fixing...collusion anti trust...monopoly...call it what you want...it's not market priced...it's priced by the producers in collusion with the negociants...and you are told what the price is in a unnatural closed market...

France's earliest winery found Click On Me

Do we taste fat? The sixth taste ? Click On Me More info...just to be clear...the fat I talk about is a note in wines...yes with wine you do get a fat sensation with the burgs most often and some Cali wines... this is bacon fat...this comes from the oak and the interaction with the wine... the relation to cool climates...so it was in relation to wine...sorry if I was not clear...cheers ! Even more info...Tongue sensors seem to taste fat Receptor may determine desire for dietary fat By Jim Dryden Click On Me

Two golds for 'Two-Buck Chuck' So wine wizards of the world take note...this is a reality ck...we are drinking fermented grape juice...or is it something else...are we drinking our ego and pride...do we dare not drink a un rated wine...how can this happen twice... Click On Me

'Wine' fountain to flow once more Click On Me

Mary, "Zinfandel gets no respect" you have to see this from an Italians eye...cultural prejudice and myopic thinking...think Anglican not Mediterranean and you will find the answer...Zin will always be "Dego Red" under a different name...even the Italians who grew up drinking this wine see it as a second grade when compared to noble wine grapes most often on a wine menu...for now Bubba rules that is until the tide changes...this will happen we are caught in a very tiny slice of the wine timeline...looking at the timeline throughout history...Zinfandel was and still is a very respected wine...if but to only a few...Zinfandel's day will come again...maybe it's hear now that you are talking about it...Cheers !!!

Interactive Wine Map Library I found this fun and informative...enjoy... Click On Me

No...none...they got the idea from them...still a good idea...

Interesting! But I thought that was what the wine bar "Just A Taste" was doing (informally, of course) in downtown Ithaca since 1989. (That was also where I had a memorable conversation with Hermann J. Wiemer which I may have mentioned on this forum.) ← They are a place for wine around the world...the new center is for only NYS wines...this center I hope to teach in when they get it going..."Just A Taste" is very good ... Cheers ! As for Hermann J. W. any conversation is always interesting...I have a few stories someday to share...all very funny...without Hermann our region would be 10 years behind today...

Wine May Curb Cavities, Study Shows Click On Me

State approves Ithaca wine center NYS \ Click On Me

These vegetables were modified through selection for type, and by cross-breeding, in-breeding and hybridization. These processes mimic the way plants and animals evolve in nature. The only difference is that humans are choosing which progeny survive to reproduce. Genetic modification, on the other hand, involves direct manipulation of the genetic code. It involves splicing genes from one cell into another. You now have transgenic organisms--corn that carries genes from bacteria, plants that contain genes of animal origin, etc. They are not at all the same. No, gene splicing doesn't make them inherently dangerous. Some might be, most probably aren't. But, unless these products are provided to me for free, I reserve the right to choose for myself and to make an informed decision. April ← not really. cross-breeding, in-breeding and hybridization do not mimic natural selection. furthermore, the "origin" of genes are irrelevant. DNA is DNA. in addition, natural selection, cross-breeding, in-breeding and hybridization have produced dangerous crops and organisms. I would support a label on all GM products....including every plant variety and animal that never existed indigenous to nature. ← I agree and this way we shall know what we are consuming... DNA to DNA and the source... I want to know if the chicken I eat is not part pig...lol...you get my drift...pun intended...

USA's use of GM yeast prompts wine debate 'frankenfoods' Click On Me

Tiny but Hungry, Moth May Peril California Crops Click On Me

TN:Cline 2004 Live Oak Zin...Contra Costa County... Contra Costa County farm is dry farmed and tended to like the Italian immigrants did when they planted the vines in the late 1800's The wine was Audouzed for 4 hours The color went from dark ruby/ garnet to a purple haze The nose was big menthol eucalyptus followed by bursting blueberry The mouth-feel very balanced full-bodied across the mid palate pure silk...cinnamon spice, black licorice...midway through a flutter of black cherry candy whispering by... Long hang time on the fruits notes with a sharp finish... Real cork a big plus...had fun playing with the bold legs that she had... My score 92 points drink now through 2014 +

White Merlot 4% RS will go with a nice spicy food...

FL Jim # 1 then then Los Olivos Wine & Spirits Emporium Tom Hill & Bernard Roth Click On Me

First welcome to the board...I am new also...so to speak...what you are talking is globalization of a worldwide palate...this does ring true in some countries...in others no so the Chinese prefer their wines Red and sweet Parker or anyone else has not moved them...in the Anglican and Spanish worlds yes to a point...you still have the distinctive signature wines in some parts of the world...what we all do me included is don't focused on over 6,000 to 10,000 different wine grapes...we fixate on less than a dozen...so if one was to compare the very few we all rate and hold as noble treasures ...yes homogenization is giving the consumer what they want...if they want different wines...trust me you can find a plethora of wines...as for knowledge and who knows what...each day I feel smaller because I learn...nice post and again welcome...