Because another wine food and travel blog was way too long.

"Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination."

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Petit Courbu

POSTED
Jan, 2008
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Joe Power

Joe Power

petit_courbu Petit Courbu is not a grape that you hear about every day. In fact, it isn’t a grape that very many folks ever hear about. A search of Wikipedia only brings us a listing for Courbu, of which it is a variety, but which doesn’t even merit an entry.

The fine folks at Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant’s sent us a bottle in one of their wine club shipments. My first thought was “What the @&#* are these @$$#0*^$ trying to pull?” Who ever heard of this stuff? So, of course, it was the first bottle in the shipment that was opened. Before the first glasses were drained a case was on order. We have been drinking it ever since. In fact, we will more than likely be trying to order another case very soon. (more…)

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The lingering “Sideways” effect

The author of this article posits that the movie “Sideways” has had a long lasting effect on the way we view and buy wine. Pretty hard to argue with him on that point, or on any other in this well written piece. In fact, this was a refreshing read for me. Since starting this site [...]

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Bargain wine? Maybe…

I’m not really quite sure what to make of the information in this article. I’m all for being able to get good table wine at a low price, and if California makers want to bring in some decent Chilean juice to make that happen, there isn’t much that comes to mind to complain about. On [...]

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Cheap Pinot?

This is an excellent article on Pinot Noir, and some winemakers who are striving to put it on all of our tables. Having tried some of these, I like what they are doing. Sure, they aren’t spectacular examples of the variety, but they are certainly very drinkable. I wish them all the luck in the [...]

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Waiter, there is dirt in my wine!

How much dirt is in your wine?
They observed during the course of the growing season that, in almost all vineyards, there will inevitably be various human impacts to the soil — from tractors and other mechanical equipment making trips hither and yon, to vineyard workers who kick up dust as they walk through the vine [...]

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