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Tag Archives: Chris Kassel
The World’s 10 Most Expensive Cocktails
Jiminy Glick’s playful interview with Mel Brooks culminates in the zany lardbucket asking Brooks, ‘So, Mel—what’s your big beef with the Nazis anyway?” Were Glick to interview yours truly, the loveable hog-beast might lead with a similarly wacky and irreverent … Continue reading
Why My Books Now Cost Thirteen Billion Dollars Each
My youngest daughter is one of those kids who pops an anti-ADHD pill every morning to get through the school day and also, probably—being that it’s an amphetamine—to lose weight. For each pill she wolfs down with her Honey Bunches … Continue reading
Posted in GENERAL
Tagged Black Tongue Speaks, Chris Kassel, Startstuck in Lodi Again, The Jinx Fragment
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A Must Muscadet
‘What can you say ‘bout Muscadet that’s not about lemons and briny spray?’ Like me, you probably have an image of Muscadet that begins on a scale of steely simplicity and works down to utter vinous neutrality. The region, on … Continue reading
Posted in FRANCE
Tagged Chris Kassel, melon de bourgogne, Michel Brégeon, Muscadet, Nantes
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Elie and Chris, Halloween, 2016: ‘Black Tongue Tastes’
Horticulture is a word that most of you winefolk know and love; it’s the branch of agriculture that deals with growing, improving, marketing and using produce–and grapes, of course, are produce. Horrorculture is, perhaps, less familiar to you, probably because … Continue reading
The ‘Grade-School Play’ Concept of Writing Wine Books
People in Traverse City don’t seem to understand the ‘grade-school play’ concept, at least when it comes to wine books. Take the main branch of the Traverse City Library on Woodmere. Please. On Wednesday, I made my dutiful, semi-annual trip … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Kassel, Heart and Soil, Traverse City, Traverse City wine, wine books
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Ten Things You Never Thought Could Be Turned into Alcohol: #11 Will Blow Your Mind!
Every once in a while, I take a breather from my professional schedule to make fun of Drink Me magazine, which continues to show up in my inbox despite me not subscribing to it and never doing anything but make … Continue reading
Introducing the Infinite Point Wine Scale
‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.’ No, not the Mafia, silly. I tried to join that once and during the initiation ceremony they found out I was afraid to kill spiders, so that didn’t … Continue reading
The Jinx Fragment, Chapter 3
An excerpt from Chapter 3 of ‘The Jinx Fragment’ Follow the link at the end if you want more… Chapter 3: The Jinx Fragment Carmilla struggled past the screen door of the drafty old house on Auden, holding it open … Continue reading
‘The Jinx Fragment’: Chapter 2
…I’m taking a brief sabbatical from Intoxicology Report to write a pair of wine books. ‘Norton Wine: Walking Off To Look For America’, a book about a genuine native American varietal that can, in its best incarnation, rival vitis vinifera. … Continue reading
Unnatural Detroit, Naturally
…I’m taking a brief sabbatical from Intoxicology Report to write a pair of wine books. ‘Norton Wine: Walking Off To Look For America’, a book about a genuine native American varietal that can, in its best incarnation, rival vitis vinifera. … Continue reading
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