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“We created a 13 x 8.2 foot structure with 1000 acrylic cells and an automated robotic mechanism, that would be filled with 6 different shades of wine, people could choose a cell and sent a text message, and the robot filled each box with wine. At the end people could recreate the Van Gogh’s self portrait and build a masterpiece with our masterpiece Navarro Correas wine.”
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I couldn’t resist! Fernando Beteta (Master Sommelier) made a post on Twitter late last night which spoke to me, channeling my inner-wine nerd! Haven’t YOU always wanted a guide to the wine regions of France, all laid out before you in all its 18×24 glory, formatted in a similar style to the London or Paris subway maps!?!? Ok, granted it has never crossed my mind either until I saw San Francisco architect and professor David…
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As you some of you may or may not know, I recently spent 10 days back home in good old England. The reason for my visit? Well, it was really more of an obligation than it was a vacation. It’d been a couple of years since I’d been back, and in that time my younger sister had given birth to a bouncing baby girl. How time flies! We were just playing hide-and-seek last Wednesday…or that’s…
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Grape 100% Riesling Facts Let’s get this out of the way before we start! Riesling, by most standards, is considered a sweet and almost dessert-style wine. Quite often begin shunned by most “serious” wine drinkers, with ridiculous rhetoric like “sugar water” and “soda pop”! But let me tell you a quick story that hopefully might cause you to think about Riesling in a different light! Many moons ago (2006), after I sat my…
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“Garcon, could you please recommend a wine to pair with the worst tragedy this country has ever seen…” As we approach the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nice folks at Long Island winery Lieb Family Cellars are issuing a "commemorative" Merlot and Chardonnay released "to benefit the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum”. The wines have approval from the 9/11 Memorial Foundation, with "6% to 10% of the sales" of each bottle, sold at…
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Only because I took so many photos do I think it necessary to post a journal of my recent trip back to the Mother Land. It will however give you a nice little insight into my former-life in England. Photos are in no particular order. The food hasn’t changed since I was there last! Haworth and Worth Valley Railway, and not Disney Land as I’m sure you’re thinking! Haworth is about a 30…
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Grape 100% Cabernet Sauvignon Facts Vinaceous is a fairly new Australian brand which has fairly recently started gaining some traction on the US market, so I thought their Raconteur Cab was worth reviewing. Name development and design behind Vinaceous apparently took 2 years of development, and they have a beautiful website, so make sure you check it out. The Cabernet Sauvignon grape was never discovered growing wild in nature. It’s actually a hybrid…
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Grape 100% Blaufrankisch [blouw-fran-keesh] (say it with a ridiculously strong German accent just for fun). Facts Don’t confuse this wine for Blue Steel. They’re two very different things. Of-course you’re forgiven if you haven’t heard of Blaufrankisch before! Otherwise known as ‘Lemberger’ in Germany and Austria, it’s super-obscure, and not too many wineries in the U.S bother to grow it. Winemaker Jed Steele gained a enology degree from UC Davis (before it was cool),…
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The world’s largest cork tree is The Whistler Tree, (so named because of the songbirds which occupy its huge canopy), and is located in the Alentejo region of Portugal. The tree is 230+ years old, and has been producing corks since 1820. It was five years old when the first English settlers arrived in Australia, and six years old when the French Revolution began in 1789. Bottles of wine sealed with cork in that same…
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