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Wine Expert
Michael De Loach
Reading Wine Labels: Why Bother When 90% is Meaningless?
It seems almost ludicrous to me when I read wine books that have a big diagram showing a wine label with arrows pointing to the various words on the package. These diagrams inform us that one word is the “varietal, or grape from which the wine is made” and another is the “appellation, or region in which the grapes are grown.” Seems useful enough, except that much of what you read on a wine label is a half-truth at best.
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The Real Meaning of “Sideways”:
Pinot Sucks,
Drink Merlot You Moron
Wow. I am so blown away that people saw Alexander Payne’s perfect little movie “Sideways,” and came away with the idea that they had to drink Pinot Noir. Granted, there was Virginia Madsen’s speech in the beginning of Act III about how Pinot is a finicky grape, how it’s misunderstood, how each bottle of wine is an individual and represents the time and place where it was made… But she’s not talking about wine in that speech, she’s talking about Miles, our main anti-hero/protagonist played brilliantly by Paul Giamatti.
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Picnic Essentials
for Harvest
Ahhhh! Now is the time to get to wine country and breathe the famed “crush aromas” wafting through the valleys. The weather is perfection, grapes roll past in trucks, and handsome people are jauntily clad on the sidewalks. What better time to go foraging for local fruits and cheeses, cured meat and olives, artisan breads and oils, and (duh!) wine. |
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