Forbes, US News, fear, bling wineries – sipped and spit
SIPPED: Columbus Day
I sat down with Eric Arnold of Forbes (and First Big Crush) to taste through a Columbus Day showdown of Spanish and Italian wines. In the video, we taste two excellent, old-school wines, the Lopez de Heredia 1999 Tondonia (find this wine) and the G. Mascarello, Monprivato, Barolo 2003 (find this wine). Check it out! [Forbes]
SIPPED: prognostication
US News called with questions about wine in France and America; I answered them in a Q&A on their site. [US News]
SPIT: strong dollar
Despite the dollar now at a 14 month high against the wine producing area known as the eurozone, French producers are starting to lament the global credit crunch and its effect on wine consumers. Oh, and in Australia too.
SIPPED: bling wineries
The WSJ has a slide show of all the fancy new wineries by international architects in Spain. Will they be able to heat them in this age of declining consumer confidence? Ack, fear and bling in Rioja!
SIPPED: free wine as water!
A plumbing switcheroo in an Italian village makes wine briefly come out of faucets instead of water! But was it made from authorized grape varieties? [timesonline.co.uk]
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On October 12th, 2008 at 3:42 pm ,Dylan wrote:
Isn’t that water-to-wine story just great? The only downside I can imagine is for anyone washing their clothes at the time. That, or those anticipating the second coming.
On October 13th, 2008 at 11:34 am ,WineWench wrote:
Dylan, are you kidding? Wine-stained clothes would never be a downer…heck, they sell them to tourists in Napa all the time and make a fortune! LOL!
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