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February 17, 2010 New York Times on NZ Pinot
While we found very good wines — wines I’d be happy to drink with dinner — we did not find a great wine, one that could demonstrate the full potential of New Zealand pinot noir, rather than simply suggesting it.
Perhaps that’s understandable. Wine moves at the pace of agriculture, slowly and cyclically. Science and technology have made it possible for modern viticulture to shortcut the centuries it took the monks to select the best sites in Burgundy for pinot noir, but some things cannot be rushed.
The full story is here
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January 19, 2010 Wine – a wonderful introduction
“The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.” So wrote the Greek historian Thucydides in the fifth century B.C.,and indeed,wine-making is as old as civilization itself.
Here’s a great place to start your wine reading. Well done NYT.
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December 13, 2009 New York Times on New Zealand wine
“…just as the global economy went into a tailspin, nature played a cruel joke on New Zealand vintners. While frosts had limited the country’s crop in previous years, last year brought a record harvest — 39 percent larger than that of the year before. The harvest this year was another bumper crop, equivalent in size to that of 2008.”
In one para this article captures the state of the New Zealand wine industry, particularly when it comes to Sauvignon Blanc.
On the plus side, as a drinker, lots of good value wines out there.
Full story here <link>
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March 6, 2009 More and more wine apps for iPhone
MacWorld reviews five wine apps for iPhone and iPod Touch here <link>. None of the apps seems to be the finished product. Having said that it is a useful review. The comments help too.
Update: Vinifolio launches wine prices iPhone app <link>
“The Wine Prices iPhone application provides the ability to search over 400,000 wine auction price results on over 10,000 individual wines and over 1 million US wine retail prices on nearly 200,000 unique wines.”
Update: Mac World’s second article on the subject <link>
Update: Three Apps to Take to the Wine Seller from the New York Times <link>
Update: Winery Quest for the tasting roadtrip of California <link>
Update: Discussion of the ideal iPhone app <link>
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