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The Frugal Oenophile: Sizing Up the Competition

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The Frugal Oenophile is wine writer and educator Richard Best. His Lexicon of Wine Tasting Terms. Is acclaimed as the best wine reference for winemakers, winery personnel and any wine enthusiast. February 27, 2012. Sizing Up the Competition. Next step: I’m off to Chapters. I can’t emphasize strongly enough how important it is to visit a large bookstore and thoroughly study the section that might one day house your book. How big is the section? How current are the books? Do they do it better? 8226; Everyb...

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The Frugal Oenophile: Price Conscience

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The Frugal Oenophile is wine writer and educator Richard Best. His Lexicon of Wine Tasting Terms. Is acclaimed as the best wine reference for winemakers, winery personnel and any wine enthusiast. March 7, 2012. So now I was ready to get my manuscript polished and ready for printing. Posted by Richard Best. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit my Online Store. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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The Frugal Oenophile: Fighting Varietal

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The Frugal Oenophile is wine writer and educator Richard Best. His Lexicon of Wine Tasting Terms. Is acclaimed as the best wine reference for winemakers, winery personnel and any wine enthusiast. September 12, 2011. Wine that is thought to be a step up from jug wine. May be vintage dated or not. It's then perfectly legal to call that wine chardonnay, even though it might be as little as 75% chardonnay and perhaps even less. Posted by Richard Best. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit my Online Store.

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The Frugal Oenophile: The bug that ate its way through Europe

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The Frugal Oenophile is wine writer and educator Richard Best. His Lexicon of Wine Tasting Terms. Is acclaimed as the best wine reference for winemakers, winery personnel and any wine enthusiast. April 11, 2011. The bug that ate its way through Europe. A microscopic North American aphid that feeds on the roots and leaves of grapevines. Responsible for destroying most of Europe’s vineyards from about 1860-1900. North American vines and hybrids. Posted by Richard Best. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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The Frugal Oenophile

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The Frugal Oenophile is wine writer and educator Richard Best. His Lexicon of Wine Tasting Terms. Is acclaimed as the best wine reference for winemakers, winery personnel and any wine enthusiast. June 27, 2011. A useful tool developed by the University of California at Davis that helps wine tasters identify aromas in wine. Get one! Could be, but which one? There lots of wheels to choose from, but my own “Wine Style Trios Wheel” is the only one that can guide you toward wines you’re more...Visit my Online...

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The Frugal Oenophile: Chaptalized/Chaptalization *

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The Frugal Oenophile is wine writer and educator Richard Best. His Lexicon of Wine Tasting Terms. Is acclaimed as the best wine reference for winemakers, winery personnel and any wine enthusiast. July 11, 2011. The addition of sugar at the start of fermentation to correct for lack of ripeness/sugar in the fruit, to soften tannins and to increase alcohol. Sometimes perceived as a candy-like quality or sugary sweetness in the finish. Acceptable in some regions but not generally talked about.

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The Frugal Oenophile: Green Cropping

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The Frugal Oenophile is wine writer and educator Richard Best. His Lexicon of Wine Tasting Terms. Is acclaimed as the best wine reference for winemakers, winery personnel and any wine enthusiast. October 19, 2011. Removal of unripe grape clusters from vines to encourage better development of the remaining clusters. Some of the best growers remove up to half the crop. Posted by Richard Best. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit my Online Store. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

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drum yoda: The ‘Inner’ Inner Line

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Meanderings of a drummer of some distinction. Wednesday, August 17, 2016. The ‘Inner’ Inner Line. Musical intensity will come from being able to play subdivisions with great specificity and control" - Peter Erskine. Rhythm is made up of strong notes - the outer line, and the weaker notes - the inner line. In an 8th-note feel, the main beats form the pulse… the outer line. The 'in between' notes create the inner line, and it’s the inner line that determines the feel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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The Frugal Oenophile

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The Frugal Oenophile is wine writer and educator Richard Best. His Lexicon of Wine Tasting Terms. Is acclaimed as the best wine reference for winemakers, winery personnel and any wine enthusiast. April 19, 2011. An unregulated New World term that suggests a higher quality wine that has been “reserved” from the rest of that year’s harvest, but can just as easily be meaningless. Posted by Richard Best. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Visit my Online Store. The bug that ate its way through Europe.