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in pursuit of the juiciest wine: day two
And the tour began with a textbook POP as the cork was released from a bottle of Red Guitar Old Vine Tempranillo Garnacha 2007 from Navarra, Spain. It’s a blend of 55% Tempranillo and 45% Garnacha, and...
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in pursuit of the juiciest wine: day three
Happy May Day, everyone. This day always reminds me of one of my favorite poems – Allen Ginsberg’s “Kral Majales” (turn up the volume). For the best reading of “Kral Majales” listen to me read it or...
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in pursuit of the juiciest wine: day four
It’s Sunday, so I gotta take it a bit easier than the last two nights. However, that doesn’t excuse me from trying Emilio Moro Finca Resalso 2007. This wine is 100% Tinto Fino, which is another name...
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in pursuit of the juiciest wine: day six
In Brockport this spring, the sun sets when it gets around to it. It doesn’t follow the daily pattern of setting a little later each day. Nope. Today it’s setting earlier than yesterday and yesterday...
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in pursuit of the juiciest wine: day seventeen
Ramirez de la Piscina Crianza 2005. From my window facing east. It’s Thursday night, ya bastids, and you know what that means – new wine night. And I’m in a good mood. It was gray and cloudy all day...
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in pursuit of the juiciest wine: day eighty-four (Bodegas Lan Rioja Crianza...
So what do we know of tonight’s wine, Bodegas Lan Rioja Crianza 2006? It’s number 44 on The Wine Spectator’s Top 100 wines of 2010. (You can see the list here: The Wine Spectator Top 100 2010.) They...
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in pursuit of the juiciest wine: day ninety-five (Codice 2007 vs Codice 2008:...
I’ve been wanting to do this match-up for weeks, and, now, tonight is the night of: Codice 2007 vs Codice 2008 The Battle of the Tempranillos I first found the Codice Viño de la Tierra de Castilla 2008...
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On Joanne Diaz’s The Lessons
A version of this may appear in an upcoming issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. What immediately turned me on to Joanne Diaz‘s The Lessons (Silverfish Review Press, 2011) was when I read the...
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in pursuit of the juiciest wine: day ninety-eight (Vina Zaco Temrpanillo 2007)
The 98th wine of the Juiciest Wine tour is Bodegas Bilbainas Vina Zaco Tempranillo 2007 from Rioja, Spain. I don’t know anything about this wine. I just randomly picked it off the shelf. I like...
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in pursuit of the juiciest wine: day 102 (Bodegas Beronia Reserva Rioja 2006)
I picked up the Bodegas Beronia Reserva Rioja 2006 especially for tonight. Tonight is my last day of full-time work for a while, so I wanted to get something that I think will be good. It’s a blend of...
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In Pursuit of the Juiciest Wine: Day 120 – Tittarelli Tempranillo Reserva 2005
I went to Bed, Bath, & Beyond yesterday to pick up a $2 wine glass, because it has to be better than drinking out of that mini-jelly-jam-mason-jar-wine-glass from the Juiciest Wine Tour Day 119....
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In Pursuit of the Juiciest Wine: Day 121 – Ergo Tempranillo Rioja 2009
Tonight concludes the first week as student and teacher at the University of Southern Mississippi. It was only a half week, but, man, it felt full – for sure . . . and busy. So this evening, I’m just...
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