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New York Wine Diary: Day 12 – An Important Message
Sometimes it’s difficult not to see negative things around you, because sooner or later you find yourself in a situation that looks clearly negative, or as happened to me recently multiple situations that looked clearly negative. Suffering is an intrinsic … Continue reading
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New York Wine Diary: Day 5 – The Fragrance of Austria
Last night at Jadis wine bar on Rivington Street in the Lower East Side I had a Close Encounter of the Third Kind with the wonderful fragrance that Austrian wine is capable of. I’m not talking about the in-your-face kind … Continue reading
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FLXtra: Part 3 – Nova Creates a New Constellation
That Nova Cadamatre has just made three 2015 FLX wines for the 240 Days brand certainly sounds like the kind of news that this blog is on the look out for, but it hardly sounds earth-shattering. That is, until you … Continue reading
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FLXtra: Part 2 – A Simultaneous Riesling Vertical and Winemaker Horizontal
Why is there so little interest in mature wines like those pictured above? Most wine drinkers never have the chance to taste a particular wine from many vintages stretching back over 10 to 15 years, and those who lucky enough … Continue reading
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FLXtra: Part 1 – Breaking the Boundaries at Boundary Breaks Vineyard
The Finger Lakes, increasingly well known under the acronym FLX, is a dynamic wine region that keeps drawing me back to it, but many people in New York Wine City, or NYWC as I call it, continue to look down … Continue reading
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New York Wine Diary: Day 28 – I Blog Therefore I am?
I was never asked by anybody why I write this blog, perhaps because by the time it really got rolling blogging had become so well established that it was widely assumed to be as natural as breathing or having sex. … Continue reading
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New York Wine Diary: Day 25 – Hugel’s New Star Rieslings
It might sound absurd to talk about innovation at a company founded in 1639, but that’s what Jean- Frédéric Hugel (left) and his father Etienne (right) were doing today in New York, and they brought the wines along to prove … Continue reading
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New York Wine Diary: Day 22 – Eric Texier is a Real Rhône Ranger (from France)!
This photograph of winemaker Eric Texier reminds me somewhat of that I took a week earlier of Abe Schoener of the Scholium Project in California, and there are number of important similarities although Eric is working on the other side … Continue reading
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New York Wine Diary: Day 16 – East-West Winemaker Abe Schoener Defies All the Categories!
A lot of people in New York Wine City (NYWC) and in the wine scenes of other cities and around Planet Wine regard Abe Schoener of the Scholium Project as one of the leading producer of “natural wine” in California … Continue reading
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New York Wine Diary: Day 12 – Schloss Joahnnisberg and Elite of Germany in New York Wine City for Rieslingfeier
Saturday, February 20th is Rieslingfeier in New York Wine City (scroll down for the link to obtain one of the last tickets to The Gränd Tasting) and already a slew of the winemaking elite of Germany has arrived in the … Continue reading
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