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A Plea for Calm

I took that as a compliment. But I’ve been thinking about it ever since. This is what I understood him to mean: The world has little patience or ear for nuance today. It hears shouting. It hears absolutes. It hears certainty. It wants to see the world ...

From ERIC ASIMOV, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009

Guilty Plea in Multimillion-Dollar Wine Arson

The entrepreneur, Marc C. Anderson, did not offer a motive, but prosecutors suggest he set the fire to cover up evidence of fraud. Mr. Anderson ran a business, Sausalito Cellars, which offered to store fine wines for collectors. He rented space at ...

From ERIC ASIMOV, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Frank Bruni

False Demons

No book, though, is nearly so controversial as “Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters’’ by Jonathan Nossiter, whose polarizing film “Mondovino’’ came out in 2004. The book has received a few favorable reviews. It has also been trashed, most pointedly by ...

From ERIC ASIMOV, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mike Steinberger,  Wine Spectator,  Jancis Robinson

The Pour: An Invitation to Read, Sniff and Taste

BOOKS about wine are no substitute for drinking wine. But these six new selections can help to better understand what’s in the glass, and what’s in the minds of those who make wine and consume it. A blog on the pleasure, culture and business of wine, ...

From ERIC ASIMOV, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: University of California,  Wine Spectator,  Bonny Doon Vineyard,  Nestor, Inc.,  Alice Feiring

The Roots of Fine Wine

Peter Liem is one of my favorite wine writers. He is meticulous in the best possible way, and always has something interesting to say. Most recently in the October issue of Wine and Spirits magazine he wrote a thought-provoking column in which he ...

From ERIC ASIMOV, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Six Years of Thanksgiving Wisdom

Are we really discussing Thanksgiving? People, I’m not only talking about it, but I’ve already eaten it, and I’ve already drank it. Yes, as Thanksgiving nears –- a little more than two weeks and counting! –- the annual question arises of what to drink ...

From ERIC ASIMOV, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Wines of The Times: Gathering at the Table, Bottles in Hand

FOR six consecutive years, the Dining section’s wine panel has gathered for an early Thanksgiving meal. The mission: to taste potential holiday wines, to determine what works and what does not with a representative feast, and to offer coherent answers ...

From ERIC ASIMOV, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Frank Bruni

Vintage Baseball

This post may be of interest only to baseball fans, Yankees fans and New Yorkers. So be it. When your team wins the World Series perhaps that is license for a bit of self-indulgence. I don’t mean to talk baseball. That’s for the best baseball writers ...

From ERIC ASIMOV, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New York Yankees,  John Sterling,  Jon Miller,  ESPN,  San Francisco Giants

The Pour: An Honest Day’s Work From Vienna

AS a child growing up in Vienna, Carlo Huber would sometimes accompany his father, Rupert E. Huber, to wine bars and heurigen, informal little buffets where Viennese wine estates sold their own produce. When his father had an especially pleasing glass, ...

From ERIC ASIMOV, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Metropolitan Opera

The Mystery of Marketing

In my last post, I suggested that one of the problems with wine’s image in this country is the marketing that turns it into an aspirational luxury good, like a car or a fancy vodka. Putting the equivalent of designer labels on bottles of wine results ...

From ERIC ASIMOV, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

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