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Ok I have the short ribs and all the ingredients tomorrow night short ribs, hmmmm, sounds like you cook a little me too! I will use wine or maybe beer thyme and oregano.

Hey Joe!
Nice recipe sounds wonderful will try it soon!

Great article and I know a couple of people that know Madonna and you are right she is not a nice person. Wow the Dave Clark Five I have not thought of them in years did they get inducted fantastic listened to them a lot back in the sixties. As John Cougar turned into Mellencamp I liked Cougar better LOL.
Bruce Cohn is a funny guy I have know him for years Cohen is his birth name his cousin Dave Cohen makes good wine too. the-wine-room.com down the road in Kenwood. Check out Muscardini Cellars and Ty Caton too

Yes I have done tastings with thousands of people now and I feel it very certain that there are many different tastes out there I try not to over describe wines in my articles because I see how much taste varies between one persona and another. I also try not to say what I like for it has little to do with my clients, I try to figure out what they like and get them more of that! this is why I think wine experts are silly so what if so and so rates a wine 90 do you like it? Taste it and also these days if a wine is not 90 then many dismiss it as not good, there are just not that many 90+ wines out there there is little room at the top, what if age improves it so where to we go from there?

By the way I do not drink when I tour people they do I just observe so I can do it day after day!

Hey Joe,

You have some great quotes, I read the Andre quote in Sandra Jordan's book on Decanting it was while tasting a 1797 Chateau Lafite with Michael Broadbent the head wine buyer for Christie's of London

Joe,

Yes I agree cook for her at home, farm out the kids, have a wonderful meal, wine, save money and be more intimate. If you have any need for recipes let me know, I have many I cook the main courses though, no desserts hahaha!

I just want to say one more thing this bothers me. Wine is a wonerful experiece and there is nothing about it that should be controlled.
It is just not fair becuase of where you live that you should not be able to drink wines that are available in opposing states that you cannot, because of some 70 year old law, be able to enjoy!

Wine has gotten so expensive because of regulators and rules, it is just Grape juice as my Grandfater used to say!

We need as a community to start to raise our voices to level the playing field and make wine available to all!
Regardless of where we live we should be able to experience Spainish, French, American,Australian, East Coast ,West Coast, we should be expecting our wines without Borders, based on their merit not their loacale! Let the best stand on its quality let us try and evaluate for ourselves!

I am not outraged by David I am outraged by our systems of distribution, certainly your locale should not decide your wine, you should be free to drink any and all wines that are produced!

Certainly, the fact that we can talk and express our feeling from one side of the world to the other is a sign that the time has come to stop these silly local regulations and create an international body that is based on a non-profit basis to promote the worldwide enjoyment of all wines, wines without borders! Just as information can now flow freely so must wine!

Absolutely, when I first read the article it immediately struck me here is someone writing with little availability to the subject he chose to evaluate. He happens to come from the most controlled state in the US but it is an example of what is out there. To me it is silly to critize something you have no access to, hence I focus on the Napa-Sonoma Area of California as I have spent my whole life here studying it.

I do have most of my clients coming from outside the state for tours here so I am continually exposed to these incredibily outdated laws of interstate shipping which is a huge reason why someone such as David has not a fair playing field when it comes to evaluating wines from anywhere, let alone Spain.

For me it is a reoccurring theme I must endure time and again with entertaining clients from all over the world. I am not sure what we can do to change the laws, but if we live in a free and democratic society it should be expected that we are not told by the state or their representatives what or from whom we can ship wine to ourselves that we want to drink! Let alone, there might be one man that decides what millions of taxpayers will drink as in David's case!

This seems to me a world wide problem and it is as usual all about money, there needs to be an international body built to support world exchange of wine back and forth, a UN Wine Distrubtion. This body would be non-profit and exist only to support and promote the world wide exchange of wine without restraint of borders or regions so all could partake of wines from anywhere. What an improvement that would be, I cannot imagine how it could happen but the fact that Blogging is raising the international awareness of this issue it might be the vehicle to launch the disscussion!

HAHAHA see Ryan I have done 1000's of tastings and tours and I can pick them, refer to my wholesale liquor store comment previous to this fellows response. Well Pennsylvsania is a state where if you drink wine you better move because you cannot get anything but what the state chooses and I have had some top people from there for tours and basically one guy calls the shots.
Well I would not lose much sleep over that as here is some one that wants to drink w
ine and has only one source to get it from, he cannot make chioce one, he cannot ship to himself from any where outside the state. He cannot join a wine club, he cannot even travel anywhere and ship wine back. It is the worst place in the US to live and try to get and drink good wine! So let it go and pity the poor guy.... he needs to move cause if he visits it will be really terrible when he cannot ship back I see regularly and it is really sad to see the frustration!

This is one reason I wrote several articles on interstate shipping of wine as here doing tours to the great wineries people go nuts when they find out they cannot ship back home for state laws!
http://winelimo.typepad.com/winery_times/2007/1...
http://winelimo.typepad.com/winery_times/2007/1...

Way to go Ryan! Sounds like another dabbler. Wine takes work and each region can take a life time to learn and experience! Sounds like this was a local wholesale liquor store foray into a wine region thousands of miles away. One must go to the region and then work to seek out the wines of merit! Follow the players, the wine makers and the vineyards. Taste the styles understand the different schools the oak and on and on. This wine is a life times work not a weekend essay! You picked this article apart with gusto, I bow to your effort!

Gabriella,

I kidding you Ryan!

I think the most important thing for me, and I am a newbie, is reading everyone writing out there. Wow, we have some great authors and incredible information to be gathered. As a group it is a source of huge knowledge and most informative. I also have found there is much to be shared, by the group and with the group, as one knowledge complements another we can teach each other a great deal. The Internet has made information transfer and distance a problem of the past, it's timely communication has increased the speed at which communication can happen, instant response compared to years past. In our case it would be cost prohibitive to speak on phones. So this platform has made it affordable in reference to costs as well as speed and distance!

Hi Ryan,
Wow, you guys are surrounded by such "Historia" 1000 years as apposed to 100 to 150 around here. Sounds great I look forward to your notes!

Hey Ryan,

I just linked to you and Alder linked to me, cool, the brotherhood continues.

Sherry is very old and least appreciated, it stems back to fortified wines in general which were originally created to survive long ocean voyages.

I have used sherry since I was introduced to chinese cuisine in the early 1980's, good sherry like good wine improves a dish when used in cooking. At the same time qualitity sherry is always a nice aperitif while waiting for the dinner to finish.

Whoa, I am thinking now of aged maderia as an alternative, do you know maderia ages best of all wines, hmmm they are so nutty.

My point is that these wines are wonderful for drinking and for cooking! Never cook with bad wine, nor drink it!

Thanks Ryan!

Hey Ryan,

Do not let those guys bother you they might have been better served to read what you had to say before classifing you as not important! I get the same thing with clients that assume that if I do Limo wine tours I must be stupid. It is usually a reflection of their own insecurityrather than anything else. If I get some one who wants to tell me they are rich then they are not. If they assume they are better off than I they are usually shallow as they generally do not know me.

I say just keep writing and some will notice I was asked to be linked as the Blog for the Napa Wine Company and their preffered Chauffer and tour guide by their director of brand marketing and international sales. These guys custom crush for over 25 wineries and have lauched Ruston, Pahlmeyer, Fife, Lewis, Staglin, Larkmead, Revana, Bryant Family and many more.

I love the Wine country here and have been drinking and touring for longer than most experts have been alive around here. I just write what I hear from the 200 tours a year I do and I know many many wineries and wine makers, so I just write the news I hear and entertain my friends family and clients.

I think we must do what we love and if people like great! But, it must make you happy and give you pleasure or why do it. Do not let the little people bother you it is just illustrative of why their news is not too riveting they are not either! http://winelimo.typepad.com/winery_times/2007/0...