Comments on: living with wine, samantha nestor & alice feiring (2009) http://www.burgundy-report.com/diary/2009/10/living-with-wine-samantha-nestor-alice-feiring-2009/ the people, the place and their wines... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:28:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: billn http://www.burgundy-report.com/diary/2009/10/living-with-wine-samantha-nestor-alice-feiring-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-37043 billn Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:07:46 +0000 http://www.burgundy-report.com/wp/?p=6503#comment-37043 Hi Alice - I suspected that it would work that way - I anyway look forward to your <strong>next</strong> book! I guess I can't help betraying a hint of cynicism when people build something to shine lights onto their 'collections' - I suppose I'm old-fashioned in that I prefer to keep my bottles in a dark place ;-) Keep well Bill Hi Alice – I suspected that it would work that way – I anyway look forward to your next book!
I guess I can’t help betraying a hint of cynicism when people build something to shine lights onto their ‘collections’ – I suppose I’m old-fashioned in that I prefer to keep my bottles in a dark place ;-)
Keep well
Bill

]]> By: Alice Feiring http://www.burgundy-report.com/diary/2009/10/living-with-wine-samantha-nestor-alice-feiring-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-37041 Alice Feiring Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:51:45 +0000 http://www.burgundy-report.com/wp/?p=6503#comment-37041 Hello Bill, Well, first off, there's a clue to my association with the book: my name is in small print and there's no picture of me on the jacket. So that should give you a hint that I'm a hired hand to write the profiles of the collectors and make sure the wine info is correct. For the nuts and bolts of wiring? Those books exist. You are absolutely correct: this is a design book. This book--for better or worse--is a bit of wine porn as well as provide the collector who wants a show piece wine cellar some ideas. Cascades? Cubby holes? Diamonds? Pros and cons? Choice of materials, jersusalem limestone? Redwood vs. oak vs. aluminium shelving? What kind of lighting? Security? Wine tracking software? Those details are there. DYI wiring and HVAC? Go elsewhere. I had originally thought that the splashier the design the worse the collection, but I was surprised to find some people like Scudiery who started with Parker and escaped into a fairly geeky wine palate. His quote was meant to be ironic. And in this book, there are plenty of people who love the design and the room more than the wine. Writing the book was fascinating, I met a ton of interesting people and it was fantastic for me to get tuned in with another part of the world. --Alice Hello Bill, Well, first off, there’s a clue to my association with the book: my name is in small print and there’s no picture of me on the jacket. So that should give you a hint that I’m a hired hand to write the profiles of the collectors and make sure the wine info is correct. For the nuts and bolts of wiring? Those books exist.

You are absolutely correct: this is a design book.

This book–for better or worse–is a bit of wine porn as well as provide the collector who wants a show piece wine cellar some ideas. Cascades? Cubby holes? Diamonds? Pros and cons?

Choice of materials, jersusalem limestone? Redwood vs. oak vs. aluminium shelving? What kind of lighting? Security? Wine tracking software? Those details are there. DYI wiring and HVAC? Go elsewhere.

I had originally thought that the splashier the design the worse the collection, but I was surprised to find some people like Scudiery who started with Parker and escaped into a fairly geeky wine palate. His quote was meant to be ironic. And in this book, there are plenty of people who love the design and the room more than the wine.

Writing the book was fascinating, I met a ton of interesting people and it was fantastic for me to get tuned in with another part of the world. –Alice

]]> By: billn http://www.burgundy-report.com/diary/2009/10/living-with-wine-samantha-nestor-alice-feiring-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-37039 billn Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:06:12 +0000 http://www.burgundy-report.com/wp/?p=6503#comment-37039 Ed - you are so right. I consider myself even more minimalist - I have no plywood - maybe that's why some of the 6-packs piled 6 (7,8...) high are bulging a little at the bottom. I hide that by piling more in front of them! :-) Ed – you are so right.
I consider myself even more minimalist – I have no plywood – maybe that’s why some of the 6-packs piled 6 (7,8…) high are bulging a little at the bottom. I hide that by piling more in front of them! :-)

]]> By: Ed http://www.burgundy-report.com/diary/2009/10/living-with-wine-samantha-nestor-alice-feiring-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-37038 Ed Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:03:02 +0000 http://www.burgundy-report.com/wp/?p=6503#comment-37038 Best thing about a poorly organized, ramshackle cellar of plywood shelves and piled cases is finding the odd bottle you had forgotten, or thought you had consumed the last of. Wine is much better to drink than to look at. Best thing about a poorly organized, ramshackle cellar of plywood shelves and piled cases is finding the odd bottle you had forgotten, or thought you had consumed the last of. Wine is much better to drink than to look at.

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