Tasting sized pours — Valentines, sports, politics and warming Eiswine
Wine and Valentines
US News & World Report emailed, asking for some wine picks and I told them something I have neglected to tell you: Pierre Peters champagne is excellent! I have enjoyed it on the deck as an aperitif, at dinner, but not, however, in the jacuzzi. Send me your notes if you do! (find this champagne) [US News]
Wine and politics
Wine and cheese? No, wine and corruption is perhaps a more common pairing in Texas according to member of a committee examining the regulation of the wine biz. [Houston Chron, thanks Tom!]
Wine and sports
Did you spend $14.60 on wine all of 2005? And last year did you spend $81.40? Then you might just be a fan sports fan! Ladies golf comes in at the top of the heap of couch potatoes with $125 of spending. [Reuters, thanks Jeff!]
Wine and sports, part 2
Indy Colts fan Jeff at Goodgrape.com took me up on my betting wine for football. Fortunately for his sake, since I took da Bears, I couldn’t find any Illinois wine to send him. So I am adding a $25 bottle of his choosing (Tulocay Napa zinfandel 2000) to his cellar. Hey I’m almost a third of the way to the average expenditure of a sports fan!
Wine and weather
The Economist discusses German wine and climate change. But they fail to mention the economists who already did! (Slate even thoroughly discussed the paper) For more detail on the broader trend, see a recent LA Times story [Economist]
UPDATE:
Wine and blogs
Looking for a new world syrah tip? Tim wraps up his WBW with 50 of them. [Winecast]
…and finally, I forgot to include a link to Tony Bourdain’s hilarious rant against every show on the Food Network. [Ruhlman]
Related: “This Valentine’s Day, don’t have pinot envy”
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On February 12th, 2007 at 2:54 pm ,paul sharp wrote:
Mesnil-sur-Oger Blanc de Blanc good pick! They always have a nice energy about them.