Tasting sized pours
“In London, they receive you with a sumptuous Porto, and in Rome, the mayor serves absolutely exceptional wines. [Instead, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë] thinks it is fashionable and modern to serve little democratic wines.” -Anthony Rowley, a French food historian talking about the sale of the wine cellar at Paris city hall. [NYT; previously mentioned in the quiz]
“Thanks to last year’s record grape harvest, good California wine is flowing like water.” [LA Times]
“We need to do this before we can do transgenic research to decrease the grapes’ susceptibility to fungus. Neither the grapes nor the wine will be consumed by humans. Our tests will involve chemical analyses only.” -Sarita Groenewald, manager of the GM grape project at Stellenbosch University’s institute for wine biotechnology [IOL]
“A team led by Maurizio Cellura discovered that winemaking at Milazzo was wasteful and needlessly polluting. The production of a bottle of Terre della Baronia created more than a pound of waste and put 16 grams of sulfur dioxide into the air. Producing the 2004 vintage of 100,000 bottles generated 22,000 pounds of plastic waste, 11,000 pounds of paper and oceans of wastewater.” [NYT]
“Not that there is a better drink with food than wine, but the two don’t complement each other nearly as much as we are almost everywhere led to believe.” -Ed Behr, The Art of Eating, #64 [via OWF]
tags: wine | environmentalism | genetic modification
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On October 20th, 2006 at 7:53 pm ,Derrick wrote:
It was Ed Behr who made that comment — I was using it to prompt a response from Dornenburg & Page.
On October 20th, 2006 at 8:37 pm ,Dr. Vino wrote:
whoops! Corrected. I might have to put ED on notice!