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Negotiating the Epistemologic Implications of Oenophilia
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2 hours 11 min agoJuly 30, 2010
16:31
Jimmie Vaughan’s 1967 Fender Coronado (how friggin’ cool is that?)
From the “does this town rock or what?” department… Above: Guitar legend Jimmie Vaughan’s 1967 Fender Coronado and Ronnie James’s 1967 Fender Coronado bass. Photo via Hair by Felice. My friends often hear me say that moving to Austin to be with Tracie P was the smartest thing I’ve ever done. The second smartest thing? [...]
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July 29, 2010
22:34
Wine blogs you should and can’t read react to Brunello “rivellation”
Regretfully, I don’t have a subscription to Jancis Robinson’s subscription-only blog but a friend cut, pasted, and sent me a post on Jancis’s blog by British wine writer Monty Waldin (above), who commented on the Rivellation that “80% of Brunello was not pure Sangiovese.” By saying that most pre-2008 Brunello was fraudulently blended, Dott. Rivella [...]
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July 28, 2010
23:50
Ezio Rivella: “80% of Brunello was not pure Sangiovese.”
Above: I hope that Tuscan wine writer and internet-based interviewer Carlo Macchi doesn’t quit his day job. I certainly wouldn’t call him the next Antonioni. Although he might give Dario Argento a run for his money. Last week, the newly elected president of the Brunello producers association, Ezio Rivella, told Macchi that “80% of Brunello [...]
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July 27, 2010
18:10
I Am Love (I Am Cinema) and good things we eat and drink
Above: Over the weekend, Tracie P made cabbage leaves stuffed with shredded pork and rice and then braised in puréed tomato. Delicious… The same way some of my favorite wine bloggers share my passion for music, like McDuff and Eric the Red, many of my blogging colleagues share my passion for cinema, like Lyle and [...]
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July 23, 2010
18:44
Best wine in Chicago and what Comrade H had for dinner
Comrade T recently wrote me asking for advice on where party members find good wine in Chicago. I reached out to Comrades N and L for their advice and here’s what they said (paired with Comrade H’s excellent dinner, including Comrade B’s Dolcetto). Start with the first good cherry tomatoes of the summer. FROM COMRADE [...]
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July 22, 2010
17:24
Chianti and Brunello, the brand names
Inspired by that Prince of Paronamasia, Thor, I was tempted to entitle this post, “Brand on the Run”… But have you ever known me to mince words? Above: The Castello di Brolio, site of the Ricasoli winery. The “Iron Baron” Ricasoli, winemaker and Italy’s second prime minister, re-branded Chianti in the late 19th century when [...]
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July 21, 2010
22:47
Mazel tov, Ayako and Levi!
Photos by BrooklynGuy. This just in from one of the few people I know in this business who matches an extraordinary palate and professionalism with an unrivaled gentleness of spirit and mind. “I thought I would pass along the news that, as it happens, Ayako and I were married yesterday down at the City Clerk’s [...]
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21:35
Veronelli’s handwriting, Bartolo Mascarello’s backward thinking, and the “triumph” of barrique
You may remember a post I did not long after I launched my blog on Luigi Veronelli as Poseidon and a Trident of New Oak (and Eric the Red’s subsequent post). In that post, I translated a passage from Luigi Veronelli’s landmark 1983 Catalog of the Wines of Italy. In my never-ending quest to apply [...]
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July 20, 2010
20:07
The story behind Vajra’s Barolo Albe
Above: The good news is that it looks like Vajra’s wines will be coming to Texas soon. So many questions, so little time… When Mr. Franco Ziliani took Tracie P and me to taste with Aldo Vajra back in February at the winery, I neglected to ask Aldo what the “Albe” in his “Barolo Albe” [...]
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02:32
Way to GO brother Micah! Brilliant, simply brilliant… :-)
Lots of reasons for smiles in the Parzen family these days. :-) I’ve known for a week or so but had to keep a lid on it: brother Micah (right, giving a toast at our wedding) has landed what might just be his dream job, the Executive Directorship of San Diego’s Museum of Man. Here’s [...]
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July 19, 2010
19:33
Maybe it’s the way she grates her cheese: Tracie P’s rice balls
Maybe it’s the way she grates her cheese… Above: When Tracie P asked me what I wanted for my Sunday night birthday dinner, I told her I would love her fantastic ragù. It was great as always, but she surprised me with RICE BALLS. Unbelievably good… Whether its Faicco’s in the City or the Focacceria [...]
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July 18, 2010
16:48
Ginny appreciation week at the Little Longhorn Saloon: No Cussin’, No Fussin’, No Hasslin’, No Wrasslin’!
Above, from right: three generations of Ginny, Ginny Kalmbach, her granddaughter, and her daughter. All three manage this national treasure. On Friday night, Austin music icon Dale Watson emceed “Ginny Appreciation Night” at the Little Long Horn Saloon in Austin, Texas (on Burnet Road, on the north side of town, not far from where Tracie [...]
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July 16, 2010
17:06
My first (and last) gulf oyster
Above: You had me at hello… The oven-roasted gulf oysters at Cochon in New Orleans, in February 2009. Reading The New York Times this morning as I munched my quesadilla (topped with “casera” salsa by Herdez, which, btw, you must look for in a can as opposed to jar, because it just tastes SO much [...]
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July 15, 2010
18:42
The James Suckling era ends (and what we ate and drank for my birthday)
Above: We treated ourselves to a bottle of 2004 Il Poggione Brunello di Montalcino and porterhouse steak last night in celebration of my birthday. When we planned this classic Tuscan meal, I had no idea that my birthday would also deliver the news that James Suckling had left the Wine Spectator. Yesterday, as we were [...]
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July 14, 2010
15:19
Rewind: The origins of sugo alla puttanesca?
Taking a break today and reposting something from the days when Do Bianchi was just getting started. One of my favorite posts. Little did I know at the time that I would meet and marry a wonderful, beautiful lady who had lived on the island of Ischia and who makes the best puttanesca I’ve ever [...]
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July 13, 2010
18:59
A correction on white Musar and a Tracie P[olaroid] moment
Above: I met Serge Hochar, owner of Musar, a few years ago at a food and wine festival. Super nice guy and a lot of fun to be around. I’m not sure where he wrote or said this, but Georgios Hadjistylianou in Cyprus quotes him, “the harmony of nature is better than anything we could [...]
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July 12, 2010
19:56
Wines I drank with Russian spies in LA at Marouch
Above: The 2000 Chateau Musar white (Sémillon) was FANTASTIC at Lebanese/Armenian restaurant Marouch in Los Angeles last night. At 10 years out, this wine is just coming into its own: oxidative and richly aromatic, with gorgeous nutty and stone fruit flavors. Strained diplomatic relations between the two countries and the delicate nature of my mission [...]
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July 11, 2010
19:37
Congratulations Kate and Dan! Mazel Tov ya’ll!
What a beautiful setting and gorgeous wedding in the Santa Ynez Valley! This is just one of the amazing sunset photos that Tracie P took with our trusty Nikon. Among other wedding duties, musical and otherwise, Dan enlisted me to play the hora. I think it’s safe to say that I got the job done. [...]
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July 10, 2010
21:14
It never rains in Southern California and “Italian wine from local vineyards”
Tracie P and I headed north from Los Angeles yesterday afternoon up the Pacific Coast Hwy 1. We stopped for a light dinner at one of my favorite college-days haunts, the Reel Inn. Inexpensive, family-friendly, fresh grilled fish, casual and classic beach comber setting. Love it. Right next to the Topanga Canyon Inn. Get the [...]
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July 9, 2010
21:20
Texas tones pair well with La Jolla sushi!
HEARTFELT THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT TO SUPPORT THE GRAPES! The Grapes had a blast last night playing our first gig at Zenbu Sushi in La Jolla. Nearly half of the graduating classes of La Jolla High 1985 and 1986 were there… What a night… Who knew that Texas tones would pair so well [...]
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