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Napa Considering Its Future

After 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 ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  23 Nov 2009

I'm Thankful For...

Thanksgiving 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 ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  23 Nov 2009

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I Should Have Drunk Bad Wine

I 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 ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  18 Nov 2009

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The Big (wine) Lie

Collectively, 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 ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  17 Nov 2009

A Bad Wine Saga Ends!

On 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 ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  16 Nov 2009

Integrity—Bloodied and Scarred

I 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 ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  12 Nov 2009

The Return of My Wine Sniffing Nose

A 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 ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  9 Nov 2009

A Collision of Wine, Politics and Commerce—How You Can Help

AND 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 ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  9 Nov 2009

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Fraud & Terroir

With 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 ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  5 Nov 2009

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Getting It The Old Fashioned Way

These 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 ...

From TOM WARK, Fermentation: Wine Blog,  3 Nov 2009

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