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Re: Go native! Wine Blogging Wednesday #37 - Indigenous Grape varieties

David j — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:49:29 -0000

Heard raves about this, it's over a $100 here in Puerto Rico.

Intrigued by the Carignan/Samsó ddichotomy--

we need the UC Davis DNA team to get on this case!

--availability stateside--

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I'm a total grape geek & a fool for rare Catalan varieties: Picapoll, Trepat, Callet, Fogoneu, Mantonegro--last three from Mallorca...

Search 'em out! You won't be sorry, would love to 'hear' your opinions & learn if there's increasing acreage being planted.

Re: Go native! Wine Blogging Wednesday #37 - Indigenous Grape varieties

David j — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:49:29 -0000

Re: Go native! Wine Blogging Wednesday #37 - Indigenous Grape varieties

David j — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:49:29 -0000

Re: Catalan Wine at Festa de la Mercè

David j — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:26:16 -0000

Glad you've discovered Masies d'Avinyó-- but what I'm most interested in is how their recuperation of Picapoll (French Picpoul) is going. The seat for DO Plá del Bagés is in Manresa, one of the things I'd love to read about is your take on the positives & negatives of DO's regulations-- could be part of your 'acopio de datos' para el Atlas del Vino Español!

I have a lonnnng story of my passionately conflicted relationship with La Mercé

(la festa, y la Virgen!) for when we finally meet up- maybe next year--

Salut-- e forza...!

Re: Catavino Makes a Quick Jaunt to Southeastern Spain’s Wine Country

David j — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:22:55 -0000

Probably- but it could be Bobal, also...

(Bobal I *think* is not as deep-hued, though)

Re: Winter Announces the Traditional Calçot and Cava Festival

David j — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:19:34 -0000

Ryan & Gabriella,

Saludos desde Mendoza. I envy you so, it's parched heat here & I miss game & bolets season, all of the Fall...

finally managed a posting...maybe, if all goes well, I can be back North & across th pond for next November & help celebrate a Catalan San Guibin!!

all the best, djr

Re: Winter Announces the Traditional Calçot and Cava Festival

David j — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:26:45 -0000

Thanks for the good wishes. I just posted on my first asado. & guess what-- found & tried some local fuet!

News at eleven!

Re: Varietally Incorrect

David j — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:26:31 -0000

I had an artisanal Bonarda from Catamarca I just posted on & Andrés the journailist & sommelier keep harping on its being 'varietally incorrect'.

I think 'terroir', when understood with broad correction (ouch) is a positive context for discussing variations in varietal character & expression as related to geoclimactic circumstance.

Whether we enjoy these variations or not (my case with Santa Lucia Pinots, for example) should not be a pretext or excuse for dismissing the results out of hand.

Re: European Wine Blogger Conference 2008

David j — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:06:38 -0000

Ryan,

I don't know how I'm going to schedule all i want to do this year. I'm still holding on to the possiblity of putting my name on a barrel of 2008, say, Bonarda, before I quit Mendoza. Even if that doesn't work, I believe I'm developing some relationships for the longer term.

I celebrate my 25th graduation anniversary from NYU this year, & I hope to contribute a half-case of Italian wine i couldn't get sent to Puerto Rico towards an informal gathering of NY based wine bloggists-- let's see who turns up on short notice!

As for Spain, I've had some contact with Laureano Serrés in Terra Alta about making the wines I'd like to vinify as natural as I can bear to risk it-- he offered to be 'on call' for support, so I was planning to return the good will trying to make myself useful around crush in Catalunya...but of course, as long as I'm looking at being around 'las Espanyas' as Harvest gears up, i hope i can lend you a hand in whatever logistics & language issues I can be halfway efficient at. Onward & upward--

un abrazo, David J

Re: European Wine Blogger Conference 2008

David j — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:18:23 -0000

PS, any chance you have tried Laureano´s wine? (nedless to say, I haven't)

here's a link to his site, in case not--

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I've also had some contact with Joán Gómez Pallarés, as the man is a veritable encyclopedia on grape varieties & subvarieties, & I must say I'm looking forward to meeting him, as well as Gabriella & you!

Re: European Wine Blogger Conference 2008

David j — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:18:23 -0000

Re: European Wine Blogger Conference 2008

David j — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:18:23 -0000

Re: European Wine Blogger Conference 2008

David j — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:18:23 -0000

Re: European Wine Bloggers Conference 2008 - Planning

David j — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:26:22 -0000

Hi, Ryan-- I'm sort of peripheral (?) to all this, but if things aren't coming together as fast as they need to for yr preferred dates ( -- tho i?m pretty sure you'll get it done) I had the bright idea post-crush might be areally rally good time-- like a build up to an expat Thanksgiving, as late as 1st or second wkend in November...

I'll have to see if I can get a ticket at all from Puerto Rico on that last week in august...

anyway, all the best... let's see if I can manage to be a part of this somehow...

djr

Re: On The Second Amendment…

David j — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:01:00 -0000

Long time reader, first time commenter. I am a sophmore in high school, and currently an expert in rifle, and marksman 1st class in bullseye pistol. Through my time working with my Boy Scout riflery team, shooting with my dad, and enjoying your blog, as well as Xavier's and Lawdog's, I have come to understand firearms, and the laws surrounding them, rather well. Through that, I have gained a reputation as a right wing fanatic in my very liberal hometown, as well as my school community. They refuse to acknowledge my principle arguments, and patently ignore such evidence as we see in 'Great' Britain. I am not a fanatic. I am an American, with all that that entails. I know my rights (I keep a copy of the Constitution in my wallet) and I am prepared to fight for them. Yet I am labeled as extreme. Why is this? If I knew, I wouldn't have this problem. But I can say that a man serving life in prison in an attempt to save his own life is a fundamental miscarriage of justice.< />< />I think that few people would be so quick to surrender their rights if they were more aware of where that leads. And so, I must thank the entire gun-blogger community, for endeavoring to do just that, while at the same time showing yourselves to be funny, interesting, good people, not the insane psychopaths portrayed by those who would give up our fundamental right to bear arms. Thank you for providing reasonable, clear-headed analysis of these issues. You have helped me to form my own opinions of guns, and the control of the same. You have helped me to sway some of the most anti-gun people I have known. It's people like you who can keep the citizens of The United States of America free from the inevitable increase of government. This message goes out to all those in the gun-blogging community. Thank you.< />~A Young Shooter