NRA wine, Rudy trial, orange crush – sipped & spit
SPIT: The NRA has a wine club?! Ack. I’m sure all the wines will be high caliber…
SPIT: Rudy Kurniawan‘s attempt to have the DOJ’s evidence against his alleged wine counterfeiting was disallowed by the judge. Now the defendant must prepare to stand trial or change his not guilty plea.
SPIT: Orange wines, the skin-fermented wines once hot among hipsters, get crushed by sommelier Richard Betts who argues succinctly, “Tecate > orange wines.” Other sommeliers pile on.
SIPPED: Arnot-Roberts, specifically, Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Robert, get deserved recognition as the California’s winemakers of the year by the SF Chronicle.
GLUGGED: Guy Fieri, whose Times Square restaurant was the subject of a negative review in the NYT, is buying a small vineyard in Sonoma. Will the wine be called Donkey Sauce?
ADVISED: The Hosemaster reports from the fictitious Lodi Professional Wine Writers’ Symposium where one panel advises: “You catch more flies with honey than with Authentic Wine.”
On January 24th, 2013 at 12:09 am ,Weston wrote:
Orange wine isnt that basically extremem skin contact of white grapes? I mean ive had some interesting funky whites that Ive loved with good skin contact it doesnt turn orange but diffferent then just pressed juice …. Its all about Balanace!
On January 24th, 2013 at 9:27 am ,Thomas Pellechia wrote:
Funny: I’ve had many Gewurztraminers and Rieslings that have been produced with skin contact. Not one of them has been orange. Just sayin’
On January 25th, 2013 at 2:07 am ,gabe wrote:
the funny thing about orange wine is that it went from “the next big thing” to “no longer a big thing” without ever actually being a thing