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Tuesday, June 30 2009
With glowing hearts, we see thee rise . . .
To all my American friends puzzled by the absence of Canadian voices on the other end of the telephone/email device July first, we have a good excuse: it's Canada Day/Fête du Canada! While on many levels it's analogous to the American Independence Day, it's mostly not, really.
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Monday, June 29 2009
Things go better with Kalimotxo?
Two things combined this week to make me feel both out of touch and completely excused for my cultural ignorance. The first was my discovery of a drink called Calimocho, or as the originators spell it, 'Kalimotxo' (apparently tx is pronounced 'ch' in Basque).
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Tuesday, June 23 2009
Mary, Mary, quite contrary . . .
Y'know, I feel a bit guilty most of the time because I'm always running late with deadlines, blogs and projects, being a natural born procrastinator. I'd like to think I have good excuses, like spending the weekend working in my garden, teaching the cats to skeet-shoot or building a cathedral out of Popsicle sticks, but if you use a good excuse one day, you'll use a bad excuse the next, I suppose.
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Tuesday, June 16 2009
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rosés.
Anne Bronte may or may not have drank rosé wine, but she seemed to know about thorny situations, and the European Commission seems to have it's share of pri . . . er, prickles. Case in point, their recent cowardly retreat on changing how rosé wines are produced. In a nutshell, the proposal was to change the manner in which pink wine is defined across Europe, allowing rosé to be made from blends of red and white grapes, in addition to the traditonal method seen in some areas of making it from 100% red grapes and relying on short maceration times to give the light pink colour.
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Thursday, June 11 2009
Rex Johnston and Barbara Bentley
Sometimes I have the best job in the world. Not only do I do something that I love, I also get to meet other people who love making and sharing wine as well. It's a community of folks who, while all different and so varied as to defy classification, all seem to share one thing in common: they're really nice. And every once in a while I hear something about one of my winemaking friends that's so good I have to share it.
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Sunday, June 7 2009
It's a good life, if you don't weaken.
"A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine."
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste (1825)
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Saturday, June 6 2009
Welcome to the bingo capital of Canada!
Ah, Winnipeg. I come here at least a couple of times every year. Winesense, our retail partner in the city, does a solid week of Limited Edition wine tasting events every winter, and I do at least one training session for their staff and managers each year, so I get to see the city pretty frequently (as well as Brandon, too--hey Ben! Go Wheat Kings!)
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Tuesday, June 2 2009
Stand tall, soldiers: you did your best.
It hasn't been drinktacular at Madhouse Manor lately. I've been on the road quite a bit, and thus doing my drinking out of town. Still, we managed to have a few people over and a couple of patio afternoons and I've piled up a few reviews.
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don hodgen
Posted 4 years ago
Yes, Happy Canada to you and your family.Don, your friend from Arlington, VA
John Meola
Posted 4 years ago
Good government? Isn't that an oxymoron?Anyway, Happy Canada Day!J.