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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Att. Winos: Turns Out It’s Brain Buds More Than Taste Buds
In this vale of toil and sin where your head grows bald but not your chin, there are very few universal experiences. One of them is this: You’re in your car, at the club or listening to music in your … Continue reading
Care And Feeding Of Your New Pet Peeve—Today’s Lesson: Booze
So, you woke up Christmas morning so excited that you soiled your jammies! You ran out to check beneath the tree and found that Santa had left you a brand-new, snuggly-huggly, squeezable-pleasable Pet Peeve! Good on ya, Junior! But don’t … Continue reading
Elvis And Wine: Red, White And Blue Suede Shoes
Of all High Holy Feast Days celebrated throughout the liturgical year of America’s one true religion—Orthodox Schlockologyism—today is the most sacred. ‘For the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which … Continue reading
Beat The Muddles: Drinks from the Beatnik Generation
January 6, 2012 would have marked the 77th birthday of John ‘The Hipster of Joy Street’ Wieners, an influential lyric poet who was one of the lesser known writers of the Beat Generation. Like any self-respecting beatnik, Wieners was born … Continue reading
There’s School Smart, There’s Street Smart, There’s Book Smart And There’s Me
Isn’t it amazing how the creative mind works—the literary brain especially? Isn’t it spectacular how journalists are able to compose column after column, day after day, year after year, on topics of interest to every human alive, from slobbering pre-schoolers … Continue reading
Posted in GENERAL
Tagged Dakota Fanning, Faulkner, Lolita, Sound and the Fury, To Kill A Mockingbird
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I Drink, Therefore I Am: British Doctors Rail Against Abstinence
Sometimes, when the British are funny they know it—AbFab, Monty Python, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers. And sometimes when they’re funny, they don’t—grownups who still have freckles, rich people with different accents than poor people, calling cigarettes ‘fags’, chavs—especially those who incessantly … Continue reading
Bordeaux Is Selling Out—Or At Least, It’s On The Market
‘Under-the-radar wine estate for sale, Saint-Caprais-de-Bordeaux, château-on-steroids, 20 hectares of vines that are firing on all cylinders. Priced to sell, this turn-key opportunity is a win-win.’ In the business world, you call such a find ‘low-hanging fruit’ and then, you … Continue reading
Posted in Bordeaux, FRANCE
Tagged Alex Hall, Bordequx, Chenu Lafitte, China and Bordeaux, Zhao Wei
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Inniskillin Sparkling Ice Wine: Tweaking the Tweaked Tweak
I have not coveted my neighbor’s wife since the eighties, when Prime Minister Trudeau’s young bride Maggie—that vamping, voluptuous Vancouver vixen who, upon publishing her third book in 2010, became the only person in Canada to have written more books … Continue reading
Posted in CANADA, Niagara Peninsula, Onkanagan
Tagged CANADA, Canadian ice wine, Fried Beaver recipe, Maggie Trudeau, Niagara Peninsula, Wonder Bra
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Iberian Intoxicants for New Year’s Day (And Beyond)
What’s the with-it Spaniard imbibing on this frosty January Sunday? Something from Torres, no doubt. Founded in 1870 by Jaime Torres, the family now controls the largest winery in Spain along with the most extensive vineyards in Penedès and can … Continue reading
Posted in Grenache, Penedès, Priorat, SPAIN
Tagged Penedes, Priorat, Torres Celeste, Torres Salmos
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