China, brains, more Holy wine, live shrimp - sipped and spit
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SPIT: Food and wine gone awry
Cabernet and wedding cake, Cabernet and mac n cheese, pulled pork and Burgundy - great comments, and they’re yours! Check out all of the great and wonderful food pairings that knocked your world.
SPIT: the hippocampus!
Wine drinkers have a 10 percent smaller hippocampus than those who drink spirits or beer, researchers say! But I thought “Red wine antioxidants protect hippocampal neurons against ethanol-induced damage“! Ugh, my brain hurts.
SPIT: Chinese wine!
“Millions of Chinese will be disappointed by their first taste of wine” is Jancis Robinson’s assessment of home-grown wines in China. Reporting on a recent trip, she, too, was “disappointed” by the “chemical and occasionally rotten odours” in the wines and general lack of progress with the industry over the past five years. [FT]
SIPPED: Holy wine
In Manchester they may go for Fairtrade wine, but Craig Heffley and Seth Gross of Wine Authorities, a wine retailer in Durham, NC, have another goal in mind for the Duke Chapel: tasty. They plan to start selling a 3L bag-in-box next summer for use in the Eucharist. [Durham News]
SPIT: drinking wine
“The 2006 Insolia from Feudo Principi di Butera…can be pleasurably inhaled for minutes.” Going easy on the hippocampus, was he? [NYT]
SIPPED: understatement
Talk about an impossible food wine pairing! Wine critic and blogger Peter Liem visits a sake festival in Japan and eats live shrimp: “My first two passed complacently, but a third, a female full of salty-sweet roe, twitched a little as I decapitated her with my fingers.” What’s his title for this juicy posting? “Niigata Prefecture.” Tony Bourdain, your job is safe–for now!–until Peter recruits a headline writer from Gawker… [peterliem]
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On March 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm ,Steph P wrote:
I can almost guarantee that mainland Chinese aren’t drinking the native stuff and skipping to imports. ie. French.
On March 18th, 2008 at 8:53 am ,Marco wrote:
I haven’t tried the white yet, but Butera’s Nero d’Avola is quite decent for $11. It has a very pleasant cherry tinge and is quite smooth.
On May 14th, 2008 at 12:29 am ,Drink wine and you get shrinkage - of your hippocampus! (Overview of a recent study and rant on the media and science) | a food and wine blog wrote:
[...] as well as a majority of the more popular wine blogs (including one who calls himself “Dr. Vino” of which I am a daily reader). What has happened is without serious analysis of the study, [...]