http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/tom_warkArticles by TOM WARK, aggregated by daylife.comen-usTue, 24 Nov 2009 08:48:32 GMTTue, 24 Nov 2009 08:48:32 GMTDaylife Betaken@daylife.comken@daylife.comhttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/napa-considering-its-future.htmlAfter 20 years of living under the Winery Definition Ordinance that banned anything but "Appointment only Tastings" and weddings at wineries founded after 1989, there is consideration now of loosening those restrictions. Why? The economy sucks and many ...Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:42:22 GMThttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/napa-considering-its-future.htmlhttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/im-thankful-for.htmlThanksgiving is my favorite holiday. In addition to providing the opportunity to pull out those "special occasion" wines I tend to look forward to opening, it is also the holiday best suited to my temperment, belief structure and inclinations toward ...Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:41:40 GMThttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/im-thankful-for.htmlSan Francisco Giantshttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/i-should-have-drunk-bad-wine.htmlI think it's one thing for America's alcohol wholesalers to selfishly and arrogantly take control of state legislatures and cripple consumers' beliefs that their demand is honestly assessed by suppliers and met for the sake of consistency with basic ...Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:10:47 GMThttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/i-should-have-drunk-bad-wine.htmlSwatchhttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/the-big-wine-lie.htmlCollectively, American alcohol wholesalers act very much like Nazi leader Joseph Geobbels and certainly have adopted the strategy of the "Big Lie", described above as a means to deceive the people just long enough to assure that the consequences of the ...Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:08:01 GMThttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/the-big-wine-lie.htmlhttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/a-bad-wine-saga-ends.htmlOn October 15, 2005 more than 6 million bottles of wine stored at the Wine Central Warehouse in Vallejo were destroyed when Marc Anderson, a Sausalito, California business man set fire to the warehouse in order to destroy evidence of earlier ...Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:57:31 GMThttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/a-bad-wine-saga-ends.htmlhttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/integritybloodied-and-scarred.htmlI tend to talk a loud game here at Fermentation about the corruption that surrounds the politics of wine distribution. I tend to accuse politicians of being in some people's pockets on the issue of the three tier system. But rarely do I have the ...Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:56:03 GMThttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/integritybloodied-and-scarred.htmlhttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/the-return-of-my-wine-sniffing-nose.htmlA big concern of mine when I chose to stop smoking two weeks ago was that sometime about now I'd find myself balled up in the corner of my office, sitting on the floor combating withdrawals. My biggest concern was that I'd give in and start smoking ...Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:22:31 GMThttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/the-return-of-my-wine-sniffing-nose.htmlhttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/a-collision-of-wine-politics-and-commercehow-you-can-help.htmlAND NOW A VERY SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR, URGING WINE LOVERS WHO CARE ABOUT FAIR TRADE, THEIR RIGHTS AND THE FREE MARKET TO GET INVOLVED ------------------------------------------------------------------- (Sacramento, CALIF)—Beginning today ...Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:03:02 GMThttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/a-collision-of-wine-politics-and-commercehow-you-can-help.htmlFacebook Inc.http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/fraud-terroir.htmlWith the report out of Oregon late last month that the Geological Society of America poo pooed the notion that the "Minerally" taste in a wine has anything to do with the minerals in the soils that the wine's grapes were grown, we are once again ...Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:28:31 GMThttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/fraud-terroir.htmlCA Inc.http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/getting-it-the-old-fashioned-way.htmlThese days an Old Fashioned is like to be made like this: 1. Place a cube of sugar, a cherry and an orange in a glass 2. Muddle contents of glass 3. Fill glass with ice 4. Pour in Bourbon (or Brandy if you are in the Midwest) 5. Top with various ...Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:52:51 GMThttp://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/11/getting-it-the-old-fashioned-way.html