Dr Vino
@drvino
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Author, blogger, educator, all about fermented grape juice, aka wine.
New York
Joined March 2008
The best wine writing should tell a good story—but also make you thirsty.
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How will this affect the California wine industry? Hope all wineries that had banking relationships with SVB are okay.
And that's that. Wow. *FDIC: SVB BANK CLOSED BY CALIFORNIA REGULATOR
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I am leading two one-week wine tours in Tuscany this spring. A few spots are still available. It would be great to see you there!
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Good Morning Everyone! Is inflation cancelled? Container shipping costs are back to pre-pandemic levels.
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Sad news. Here’s our obit on Julie Powell, who changed food writing forever.
nytimes.com
She attempted to cook every recipe in a classic Julia Child cookbook and documented the effort in a popular blog that became a best-selling book and a hit movie.
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The most expensive 2019 wine I have seen--maybe buy a few others and go for the case discount?
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Just leaving this here…
For all the buzz over collectable asset classes, it is easy to forget that over the past decade the S&P outperformed them by miles — even after its recent decline. https://t.co/HETxRcv1PG
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They are going to have to rebrand TGI Fridays at this rate
Not again...Tracking for yet another 1% down Friday for $SPY, would be the fifth in a row. #unrelenting 10/14: -1.44% 10/7: -2.79% 9/30: -1.55% 9/23: -1.68% 9/16: -1.17%
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If you were flying JFK - AUK, would you do the new NZ1/2 direct flight? 17+ hrs in the same aluminum tube seems like deep vein thrombosis waiting to happen. But then again, changing planes is a pain...
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Guess how many points? "Crushed blackberries and blueberries with some flowers, such as violets & lavender. Bark, too. Medium-to full-bodied with layers of ripe, refined tannins w/ a cool undertone. Plenty of subtle blackberry & wet-earth undertones. From organically grown grapes
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“Drought has ravaged dozens of crops throughout Europe — corn in Romania, rice in Italy, beans in Belgium, and beets and garlic in France. Among the hardest hit is the olive crop of Spain, which produces one half of the world’s olive oil.”
nytimes.com
Spain’s Jaén Province, home to one fifth of the world’s supply of “green gold,” copes with climate change and threats to its way of life.
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California's 2022 wine grape harvest forecast to be the second smallest of the past ten https://t.co/ONMs5fEH01
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"Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are." Brillat-Savarin in Physiology of Taste, 1825.
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This article has some funny quotes. Summary line: "The land of gastronomy has become the land of heated debate over the cultural and political symbolism of food."
nytimes.com
A Green politician told men to get over meat and masculinity for the sake of the planet, setting off a sizzling argument.
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Much of the Central Coast is in a state of hurry up and harvest, as many areas are two weeks ahead of schedule, and not everyone has the capacity to deal with a tidal wave of grapes.
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In a season of extreme weather, the 2022 wine harvest is underway around the world
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