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While participating in our favorite Australian Wine Forum I met Glenn Green, an independant consultant winemaker and creator of a great little wine tasting guide which he appropriate calls “The Essential Wine Tasting Guide“. While the name is a mouthful and with my marketing background I probably would’ve steered him toward something with less syllables, this little pocket guide to wine tasting truly is handy to have around.
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Living in CA, one of the biggest problems Kelly and I have had with the house is the hard water. Its a pain for everything but particularly for the nice stemware or the fine crystal from your wedding. First, let me say this – washing and drying immediately by hand will avoid any wine or hard water staining. But lets face it, if you’re hosting a party you don’t want to sit in the kitchen washing the stemware while the guests sit there. You’ll often find yourself rinsing them off quick and then getting back to the fun.
Problem with that? The residual wine left in the glass and even the water itself can leave your nice stemware looking a little sketchy. There is an answer.
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Quite a turnout for Andrew’s edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday - Obscure Red Varietals. There’s an extensive, well written summary of the event posted on Spittoon and, with over 600 varietals to choose from, the 36 entries turned out to be as educational as it was fun to participate in.
Great choice of topic Andrew! Cheers!
Here are the reviews from last week. Wine Blogging Wednesday also happened this week. When the round-up is finished by Andrew over at Spitoon.biz I’ll let you know!
Collectively, the blogs of the world represent a little less “high and mighty” and more of an approachable view of wines they’ve tasted. In fact, they often rebuke “the establishment” of wine. More approachable wine discussions are good for everyone. Wine Blogs of the world make good reading and more often then not they find some smaller winery wines that may get overlooked elsewhere.
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So, whats this post doing on a Wine Blog? We all drink wine to get away from daily life and get to our hobby/obsession/addiction don’t we? Why would I ever decide to talk about politics and intrude on our fun time?
Well, my friends, I haven’t introduced a foreign object into the continuity of wine life. It intruded on the wine life all by iteself. You see, I stumbled across a wine chat board all about Australian wine – Auswine.com. This was a great little discovery because if you’re into California wines as I am, you’re sure to love Australian wines as well. So this board really was interesting to me.
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Just wanted to mention the Rhone Rangers Wine Tasting event in San Francisco on March 19th. Kelly and I will be there tasting from a selection brought by the 150 wineries that are participating. If you’re in the SF Bay Area (or visiting during that weekend), you should check it out.
This week’s edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, “Obscure Red Varietals”, is sure to bring about some interesting information given the huge variety that is possible; we’ll have to refer to our wine chart on the wall to decifer it all. (We’re secretly looking forward to using this as an excuse to actually make a dent in our wine varietal tasting chart).
This week Vivi’s and WineTalk.com collaborate to bring you a couple very interesting varietals – Mourvedre from Spain and Nero D’Avola from Italy.
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Kelly and I bought our house brand-spankin’ new about 9 years ago. At the time we didn’t know jack about buying a house so we took the “near white” colored wall-to-wall carpeting. We pretty quickly learned that this really is not conducive to entertaining guests. Aside from asking for shoes to be removed constantly, you spend the whole party sweating who’s going to drop the first glass (or even drop!) of red wine.
Well, if it happens, and it will, here’s what we’ve learned from experience:
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Decanting seems like such a high-and-mighty activity and, quite frankly, sometimes its avoided by people I know because they don’t want to seem that uptight. Although I do have one buddy – yes the same buddy who put a glass of red in the microwave because it was too cold – who plunked down $150 for a decanter specifically because he wanted to look all high-and-mighty. But there is no accounting for the logic of…well lets just call him G to protect the innocent.
Anyway, when to decant a wine. Lets start with a young wine…
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“Women in Wine” charity event organzers contacted me to let everyone know they are holding a sweepstakes giving our reader’s the opportunity to win 2 free tickets to the event. The drawing will be held on March 11th and participants will be notified by email. To enter they will need to visit: Women in Wine Sweepstakes.
As we mentioned before, proceeds from live and silent auctions will benefit Living Beyond Breast Cancer. A good cause that hits close to home for many of us. Glad to see wine society contributing.
Enjoy the Wine Life!
