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Re: Wine Blog Wednesday #35: Valued-Priced Spanish Wines

David J Rodriguez — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:39:36 -0000

Hi. there, envy you terribly-- spent most of sweltering '03 based in BCN...

'Rueda' as varietal is new to me-- new synonym for Viura or Verdejo? Here's a link to the DO's page (their English translation, vale?)

<a href="<a href="http://www.dorueda.com/en/01variedades.php?mm=1

http://www.dorueda.com/en/01variedades.php?mm=1/>

"><a href="http://www.dorueda.com/en/01variedades.php?mm=1

http://www.dorueda.com/en/01variedades.php?mm=1/>

...been meaning to write you at leisure, send greetings to some expats you may enjoy meeting, but at the moment in a rush to work on my car before i fly up to NYC for a couple weeks--

Salut, e forza...djr

Re: Wine Blog Wednesday #35: Valued-Priced Spanish Wines

David J Rodriguez — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:39:36 -0000

Re: Wine Blog Wednesday #35: Valued-Priced Spanish Wines

David J Rodriguez — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:39:36 -0000

Re: Spain’s Harvest might end up Un-Harvested!

David J Rodriguez — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:28:56 -0000

Legality, shmegality-- the point is to have a frightened & docile labor pool available who will work at miserly salaries in exchange for the very real advantages of clean, drinkable running water & warm, safe (if all-too-often overcrowded) shelter and a shot at the dream of a consumer lifestyle.

Market 'inefficiencies' & government policy will sometimes intersect increasingly volatile nature in absurd, possibly devastating ways: visiting Steele winery in Lake County last year, there were flystrips hanging like curtains all over the place--

with the migrant labor shortage & a late grape harvest paying better salaries, 90% of the pear harvest went unpicked and was rotting on the ground...

Re: Iberian News from Around the Web

David J Rodriguez — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:57:58 -0000

It seems the moderating Mediterranean influence has been generally positive for the South of France & most of the Italian peninsula ('mainland'?), with the exception of the Northeast-- read Veneto &/or Fruili had big haisltorms that wiped a lot of productiion out-- also dumping loads of rain on Sicily, but not on Sardinia!

Gabriella/Ryan, would love to hear more on what the latter season has wrought for the Levante-- from Tarragona south to our shared favorite up'n'coming Alicante & Murcia...

(meanwhile, desperately seeking non-Douro Portugues here in Puerto Rico so I may join the WBW crowd & be a more wine-consequent blogger-- thought I'd be busy flying to Argentina by now but...had to delay departure for a couple weeks...)

Re: Reminder for WBW #38 - Portuguese Table Wines

David J Rodriguez — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:12:11 -0000

Considering the time difference-- six hours from Central Europe to Eastern Daylight, three more hours for a total of nine to the Left Coast-- WBW is going to go on far into la tarda del Dijous...

Re: Wine Blog Wednesday - Casa de Santar - Part 2

David J Rodriguez — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:21:21 -0000

(Call me Alley-Oop, but I don't know how to let you know that i did what you asked us all to do except by this route or path or blankety-blank--!)

Saludos-- hope you raise the bar & establish a new participant record!

<a href="<a href="http://vinomadic.blogspot.com/2007/10/wine-blogging-wednesday-38.html

http://vinomadic.blogspot.com/2007/10/wine-bloggi.../>

"><a href="http://vinomadic.blogspot.com/2007/10/wi...

2348 h. I'm a rank, process-oriented late-modernist in this post-post modern (blog) world...I opened the more expensive (26.50 6.5?% tax) 1996 Quinta do Carmo-- 'drink now through 2001' says the WS blurb on this North Carolina online merchant's page. Whoops.

The '91 is very slowly opening & seems to be holding up amazingly well-- some light but lively sour cherry in there! I'll check in & publish this now, but, like the proto-pop modernist old serials & 'graphic novles' (glorified comics?) used to put it,

(...continuará...!)

...yeah, in another cultural context-- Johnny Carson!-- 'More to Come!'

Re: Wine Blog Wednesday - Casa de Santar - Part 2

David J Rodriguez — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:21:21 -0000

Re: Wine Blog Wednesday - Casa de Santar - Part 2

David J Rodriguez — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:21:21 -0000

Re: Announcing Wine Blog Wednesday 38 – Portuguese Table Wines with Caveats!

David J Rodriguez — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:24:36 -0000

(--take two-- just in case this is a more apporpiate 'space'?)

Saludos-- hope you raise the bar & establish a new participant record!

<a href="<a href="http://vinomadic.blogspot.com/2007/10/wine-blogging-wednesday-38.html

http://vinomadic.blogspot.com/2007/10/wine-bloggi.../>

"><a href="http://vinomadic.blogspot.com/2007/10/wi...

2348 h. I'm a rank, process-oriented late-modernist in this post-post modern (blog) world...I opened the more expensive (26.50 6.5?% tax) 1996 Quinta do Carmo-- 'drink now through 2001' says the WS blurb on this North Carolina online merchant's page. Whoops.

The '91 is very slowly opening & seems to be holding up amazingly well-- some light but lively sour cherry in there! I'll check in & publish this now, but, like the proto-pop modernist old serials & 'graphic novles' (glorified comics?) used to put it,

(...continuará...!)

...yeah, in another cultural context-- Johnny Carson!-- 'More to Come!'

Re: Announcing Wine Blog Wednesday 38 – Portuguese Table Wines with Caveats!

David J Rodriguez — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:24:36 -0000

Re: Announcing Wine Blog Wednesday 38 – Portuguese Table Wines with Caveats!

David J Rodriguez — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:24:36 -0000

Re: Reminder for WBW #38 - Portuguese Table Wines

David J Rodriguez — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:45 -0000

...I should call myself a handle I thought up when it was more topically appropiate-- but it may be so again!-- 'Luddite with a laptop'...& thankful that blogspot is teaching me some basic html, baby step by baby step...

Thanks unutterably much for your patience,

(I guess building a narrative by installments may just hep build up readership--

a kind of cultural 'brand allegiance' in these totalizing markets, late capitalist social factory times!

...latest update (--but stay tuned!)--

<a href="<a href="http://vinomadic.blogspot.com/2007/10/wine-blogging-wednesday-38.html

http://vinomadic.blogspot.com/2007/10/wine-bloggi.../>

"><a href="http://vinomadic.blogspot.com/2007/10/wi...

again, thanks for all your work & for being such gracious virtual hosts--

great ('muy aprovechados'?) American students & assimilators of Catalan ʼseny'!

--djr

Re: Reminder for WBW #38 - Portuguese Table Wines

David J Rodriguez — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:45 -0000

Re: Reminder for WBW #38 - Portuguese Table Wines

David J Rodriguez — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:45 -0000

Re: WBW #38 - Portuguese Table Wines Wrap-Up!!!

David J Rodriguez — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:34:15 -0000

Gracias de nuevo-- you guys have raised the bar-- visual aids

are way cool and help give both participants & audience a great sense of context, & potential impact! A no-brainer, in retrospect, but it took your two very focused brains to come up with the one practical app that brought multiple pertinent factors together

economically & aesthetiacally-- did I thank you yet??