Joel | August 28, 2009
The odds were surely stacked against me. It was already getting late when I arrived back home from a long cycling ride, tired, sweaty, crazy hungry, not feeling like performing a full out assault at the stove top, and eating alone. Did I mention crazy hungry?
Operating in survival mode, I fell back to [...]
Joel | August 24, 2009
The next time you drink Barolo, offer a toast to the Marchesa Falletti Giulietta Vitturnia Colbert di Maulévrier. It was she who wanted her nebbiolo wine to celebrate in name the place of its origin: Barolo.
Indeed, Marchesa Giulietta was “…a cultured…and generous benefactress and the leading light in a generation of Barolo makers who [...]
Joel | August 19, 2009
“The Dance”, Henri Matisse
French artist Henri Matisse is famous for compositional concepts that reduce art (read: simplify) to the fundamental components of line and color. His lyrical work “The Dance” nicely expresses the idea.
In the context of appreciating wine, the work of Matisse gave rise to an interesting question for me: What are [...]
Joel | August 14, 2009
Valdicava Rosso di Montalcino 2006
It is amazing how many times the word “opulent” has been used to describe the wines of Valdicava.
Feel free to test me on this - search for “Valdicava+opulent” and see what the search engines return.
The Valdicava estate and its wines have assumed a fame of almost mythic proportion among Italian wine [...]
