A few tidbits to end the week on some hopeful notes: Palate Press Kicks Ass for Haiti Relief Mad props are due to on-line wine e-zine Palate Press for their efforts (mostly spearheaded by yeoman David Honig, its Publisher) to raise money for the Red Cross’ Haiti Relief & Development activities. David organized a stellar…
Tastes of Things Before My Eyes: The Beauty of Wine, Under A Microscope
Just when you thought that wine has been analyzed form pretty much every angle possible, along comes Philadelphia native, biochemist PhD and former medical research scientist Sondra Barrett. Sondra’s journey to wine seems spiraling and circuitous: Originally a researcher on human leukemias, she was asked to photograph a patient’s leukemia cells, which lead to her…
Wine Blogging Wednesday #67: Seeing Red For The First Time
Today marks the 67th (!) edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, and I’m honored to be hosting the event again. For those playing along at home, the gist of WBW is that it brings together multiple people across the wine blog-o-world to review wines on the same date based on a unifying theme. For #67, we…
Lucky Number 14 (Tasting 13 Appellations’ FOURTEEN)
At the 2010 Professional Wine Writers Symposium (yeah, I know… that topic again?!??), the Napa Valley Vintners (a non-profit trade organization that promotes its members wines and the region as a wine powerhouse generally) hooked us (the attendees) up with wines produced by their various association members. A couple of random bottles of what-have-you in…