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"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Even so, it will always be the same possibilities, either in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality over the idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their directions, and he awakens them."
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is done with you."
- David Foster Wallace
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”Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
Benjamin Franklin
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Gary Vaynerchuk
gary:
My TODAY SHOW appearance from the other day, they did an amazing job with the mashup in the 1st few minutes. What do u think of the spot?
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Top 10 Wine Vacation Spots in North America
TripAdvisor has recently released a list of North America’s top 10 wine destinations after seeing a 10% rise in searches for “vineyards.”
The results are….
1. Napa Valley, California
2. Sonoma, California
3. Willamette Valley, Oregon
4. Yakima Valley, Washington
5. Roseburg, Oregon
6. Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
7. Finger Lakes, New York
8. Traverse City, Michigan
9. North Fork, Long Island, N.Y.
10. Oak Grove, Virginia
Are you taking any wine holiday vacations this winter?
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6 Best Portugal Grapes
If you have not already tried a Portugal wine, you should start now. Portugal has been known for great Port wines, fortified wines, and Madeira for a long time. But, now we are starting to get some great red wines from the many old vine grape varietals that you may have never heard of before.
Six Best Port Grape Varietals:- Touriga Nacional - produces rich tannic fruit forward wines with complexity and longevity.
- Tinta Cão - Low yields almost led to the extinction of this grape. Its making a come back now used in blends for finesse and complexity
- Tinta Roriz or Aragonês - Also known as the birthplace of Tempranillo! Used in a lot of blends in the Dão region.
- Tinta Barroca - Newer vines with higher sugar content that prefer cooler weather. Blended in younger drinking wines add sugar and balance the wine.
- Touriga Francesa - Classic port grape but is now being used as a blend and stand alone wine varietal.
- Trincadeira or Tinta Amarela - Elegant balanced wines with great fruit aromas. Blended can make a top quality Douro wine.
- Touriga Nacional - produces rich tannic fruit forward wines with complexity and longevity.
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”Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin (via mywinelife) (via wisdomofwine)
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”This September, Mr. Hodgson dropped his other bombshell. This time, from a private newsletter called The California Grapevine, he obtained the complete records of wine competitions, listing not only which wines won medals, but which did not. Mr. Hodgson told me that when he started playing with the data he “noticed that the probability that a wine which won a gold medal in one competition would win nothing in others was high.” The medals seemed to be spread around at random, with each wine having about a 9% chance of winning a gold medal in any given competition. To test that idea, Mr. Hodgson restricted his attention to wines entering a certain number of competitions, say five. Then he made a bar graph of the number of wines winning 0, 1, 2, etc. gold medals in those competitions. The graph was nearly identical to the one you’d get if you simply made five flips of a coin weighted to land on heads with a probability of 9%. The distribution of medals, he wrote, “mirrors what might be expected should a gold medal be awarded by chance alone.
Why Wine Ratings Are Badly Flawed - WSJ.com (via wisdomofwine)
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Resolutions mean you’ve DECLINED GRATIFICATION!
via youtube.comOn Champagne, John Maynard Keynes, and the stupid habit of making of New Year’s Resolutions. And I make my first New Year’s Resolution in over a decade, oddly enough.
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