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Stephen Colbert will destroy Rain. Mark my words.

The last time I ate at Tapas the World it was excellent. Also, I recently ate at Lucca's which is also near downtown and has excellent tapas: 1615 J Street Sacramento 1.916.669.5300 (between 16th and 17th Streets)

I like #3 because I also grow Tempranillo, Graciano, and Garnacha in red iron-rich soil. But I also like #5 because I have friends who have walked the Camino de Santiago, and it sounds like an amazing thing to do.


I have always wondered about where "La Rioja" came from. Thanks for an excellent post!!!

So, those must have been some pretty yucky Spanish wines we were drinking years ago when we became inspired to produce our Twisted Oak Spanish varietals. Who knew?

Joel - sounds like the Flavor-Flav is the natural extension of Gary V.'s Sniffy-Sniff!

hi Gabriella - Actually, for wine bottles, I envision a system more like the one illustrated here, as pioneered by NASA:


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hi Gabriella - Actually, for wine bottles, I envision a system more like the one illustrated here, as pioneered by NASA:


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hi Gabriella - Actually, for wine bottles, I envision a system more like the one illustrated here, as pioneered by NASA:


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Next victim: The Winehiker!

Nice article! When I saw "Orange Bucket" in the title I was worried for a moment... Suggestion: 30 minutes in that freezer will chill down wine very nicely. Not as romantic as the bucket, but dependable! :)

very nice photos! oak is such an integral part of the winemaking process from harvest to bottle, that there is something "right" about finishing a bottle of wine with a piece of oak to seal it.

Gabriella's experience highlights the folly of a Flash-based site for a business. Not only does it stink for search engines that can't see your content, but then you get the fun of "mystery meat" by having to mouse over to see contact info - and if I want to copy and paste that info, I'm hosed...


So, Pownce is kind of like micro-mini-podcasting - interesting! How about a 30 second video?

hey Ryan - I have now played with both a little bit, and I am really not liking jaiku very much - I have links embedded in the message that just go to the message - and it doesn't show me my entries in context with the other ones.


If I have to like either of them, at least twitter shows me everything on one page. I'm still not sold on whether twitter is even worth the trouble. For me right now, it acts more like an extended chat room than anything else...



thanks! - j

I clearly must check in more often...


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Nice video! Gabriella is very charming, and even Ryan has his moments :)

hi Ryan - I am a lot less active than I have had time for lately, but I'll be back on track soon, I hope!


You have hit the nail on the head: a "crafted response" is exactly the wrong response. What is called for today is an honest response, an open response - like "hey, thanks for trying..."



And if you are part of the conversation, you also run the risk of learning something...:)

"...if you live in California, you may want to write about Pinot Noir..." - that's kinda funny :)


Seriously - if Catalunya is writing about Priorat, then New Spain, er, California can break it down a little too. The interesting challenge might be to taste and share a wine that was the one made closest to where you live, as the proverbial crow flies.



But no matter what - I intend to be consuming something especially good on June 1, because my son graduates high school that day!

Heckuva post Ryan! Several random thoughts:


For myself, you might be surprised that I have no interest in putting my wine collection on CT or any similar site. Well, I take that back a little - if one day I woke up and found all my stuff listed nicely somewhere, I'd probably like that. But I don't see me spending the hours to make that happen. I'm more like the typical wine drinker that Ryan describes: when I'm not working, I'm enjoying a great beverage. I'm not keeping notes, and I likely will not remember what I drank a week later (unless of course it is the bomb :)



I bet there are more wine drinkers online than you think - most of them are lurkers that will never post an opinion about wine - but many of them are reading the opinions of others.



There is a lot of wine writing out there of this kind: "We were on vacation and visited this great winery called Twisted Oak and we really liked their Tempranillo." People who like wine sharing their finds on their diary blogs.



There is also a lot of wine writing on wine-related social forum sites. I now participate in the Wine Library TV forums because a web search turned up the fact that these folks were talking about my wines. I figured I had better get over there and join the conversation! I find that most of the forum members do not post formal tasting notes and instead treat the site as a social place to meet friends with a common interest. Posts often simply just mention wines liked, wine styles liked, or have nothing at all to do with wine.



I'm not quite sure where I am going with all this randomness, but my feeling is that a smart winery pays attention to everything said about them - formal wine notes sites and everything else - and participates in conversations whenever possible. Just don't tell this to my competition!

natal tidings to a fellow Aries...;-) looking forward to the virtual tasting!

No. I want to put a tube in your ass and run my car off that. I AM a fucking producer you ignorant shit. I've probably done more work in my life than you can imagine. You probably still live at home with your mom and dad.