Wine, Pleasure, Beauty
Wine, happiness, a culture of pleasure. An exploration that roams from a local wine drinking community to a whole world of passion, beauty, and pleasure that awaits us out there. You know, eat, drink, and be merry-type stuff. Let's dive into wine and pleasure, but not take ourselves too seriously. After all, as a friend of mine likes to point out to beer geeks and wine freaks, "we're just talking about 10 minutes of pleasure, that's all."
To connect with me elsewhere, I can be found on Twitter @RonMarks, on Cork'd to share what we're drinking, or for my more personal mindcasting stuff, check out www.ronmarks.tumblr.com, or you can simply ask me a question here
Cheers!
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Frank B, label with a customizabe message, designed by Talia Cohen. (via 25 brilliant wine label, bottle & package designs)
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Red, White Wine, Fish And Science
The long-standing rule of matching wine and food — red wine with red meat and white wine with fish — actually has a scientific explanation, according to two scientists working for the Mercian Corporation, a Japanese producer and marketer of wine.
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”It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire(via insearchofthemoon) -
Sulfite-free wines
Scroll to the end for the very helpful list. Also, the article sums up the myths surrounding sulfites.
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”Sometimes I think the New World is like a spoiled child with an undeveloped superego, wanting everything fast, unable to wait. It took centuries of observations to find out which grape tasted best from which plot of soil in the Old World; the New World can start making its own observations.
Alice Feiring, The Battle for Wine and Love
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A thank you, and a note on this new wine blog of mine
First of all, I would like to say thank you to all of you who have started following this blog, which I just started for avocational reasons a couple of weeks ago, and for those of you posting great wine stuff, from quotes to beautiful wine label designs to informative articles. I just wanted to take a moment and say what I hope to do with this space, and what I hope to offer for your attention.
My intention for this wine blog is to be all over the map, literally and figuratively. This will be a reflection both of my personality, as well as, I hope, the expansiveness of the topic at hand. I have never been someone who can focus on any one thing. So I will be quite unable to do a normal wine blog that is focused on one aspect, be it tasting, wine markets, a region, or anything of that sort. A good friend and colleague of mine was once trying to give me some gentle feedback on where he wanted to see me go with my career, and he said he admired how much and how broadly I read, but that I may have been holding myself back by being such an intellectual dilettante. Intellectual dilettante. That stuck with me. So I am. Expansive, not focused. A fox, not a hedgehog. In an age of hyperspecialization, I can see the forest. This is what I hope to bring to this blog. A combination of postings from blogs I follow, wine news, wine art, plus my own content in the form of sharing wine-related readings, and connecting wine topics to as much of the broader world of knowledge as I can. I want to explore the whole world, intellectually and experientially, and I want to use wine, that magical, transformative substance, as the springboard for doing just that.
In his introduction to a collection of his essays, Aldous Huxley wrote about the inventor of that art form, Montaigne. He said that what Montaigne was able to do with the essay was to indulge in free association, artistically controlled. “One damned thing after another - but in a sequence that in some almost miraculous way develops a central theme and relates it to the rest of human experience.” No one can ever accuse me of not aiming high, for this is what I intend. While Montaigne wrote about his self, and about every topic he took up through the lens of his self, I am going to do the same with wine as the lens. Every topic under the sun, through wine. No focus. No linearity. No predetermined progression. Just a worldview, a curious mind, and a passion for wine, love, philosophy, literature, history, The Good Life, and all the rest as well.
What can you expect from me at the least? An intellectual journey. Curiosity, inquiry, inquisitiveness, and wine. I am going to allow this wandering intellect and imagination of mine to follow my passion for wine wherever it leads me, and I invite you along with me. I want to see what happens when I use wine as a key to viewing the world, to see if there is wisdom in wine.
So now, I bid you a brief farewell. I’ve only begun this hobby but will be taking the week off to go hang out in the Rockies, with a respite from the internet and cell phones and the like. But I plan on coming back with some good stuff to share, some ideas, and some reviews of wine books, and engaging with my fellow wine lovers. Thanks again for following already this brand new blog of mine. See you soon.
Cheers,
Ron
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