Long, but eminently readable – this is an excellent article on the Koch/fakes/Rodenstock saga as it unfurls…
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By billn on August 28, 2007 #asides#other sites
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The trails and tribulations front of house…
The top restaurants; pole dancing, vomiting “happens all the time”, sex in the washroom – no it’s busy, let’s try under the table…
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- Adding fuel to the bottle replication fire, this is an excellent piece.
- Snails, hired women, Paris Hilton, Tina Turner, Pommard and Ketchup – in that order!
- And this I like very much – Chateau Pétrogasm
- Finally, does (should) wine have a gender?
white burgundy and bargains(?)
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Two nice pieces spotted today:
discovering the mâconnais…
Like almost all white Burgundies, Mâconnais wines are made from chardonnay grapes. Yet their contrast with California chardonnays is extraordinary, and they serve as a delicious introduction to what makes white Burgundies distinct.
Good article by Eric Asimov today in the New York Times
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A few nice pieces found today:
- Alice on soft openings and pizza…
- Bill on Beaujolais
- Sluggish Fermentations? Maybe it’s your soil
gehry and hotel marques de riscal
I’ve loved the work of architect Frank Gehry, and the new ‘Hotel Marques de Riscal’ looks like a continuation of that Guggenheim genre – except. Except that from some angles, I’m sorry but, what the…
Here it’s looking good – or at leasing interesting.
But here? Are recent pictures from Baghdad and Falluja his current inspiration? Methinks he’s lost the plot. Perhaps too many bottles of vintage Rioja…
Learn more from the articles in Expatica and the architects website.
Photos, copyright Thomas Mayer.
economist wine article…
I finally got around to reading some of this (June 16th-22nd) issue of The Economist. and was drawn (unsurprisingly) to the ‘Charlemagne‘ article devoted to wine. Great quotes abound – how about:
“Wine is different, it has a soul,” says Ferdinand Hoffstetter, who is a big wheel in the grand duchy’s [Luxemburg] ministry of agriculture and viticulture. At dinner, guests may discuss a wine they are drinking. “One does not discuss cauliflowers.”
See – it’s not just boring stuff in the Economist 😉