worship the glitch
This is Eric Mortensen's blog. He works @ Blip and lives in Brooklyn.
In the 1970s, there were less than 10 wineries in Paso Robles. In 1995, there were still only 35. Over the next decade that number jumped to 100, and today there are more than 200 wineries in the area, which is defined by warm-to-hot days and cool nights. More than 40 different grapes are grown in Paso Robles, and new wineries and tasting rooms open every year.
But the region is maintaining quality despite its rapid growth. In fact, the wine is so good that a Paso offering from Saxum came in at No. 1 on Wine Spectator’s Top 100 list of 2010.
I just spent a week here. Skip Napa and go to Paso.
Eric Ripert tastes water with Le Bernadin wine director Aldo Sohm.
Stone Gate Vineyard and Winery, Gilford, New Hampshire
There are 30+ wineries in New Hampshire. Most truck in their grapes from elsewhere. Stone Gate trucks in some, but not all, of its grapes. It grows small amounts of a wide variety of grapes and just enough Leon Millot to bottle a very limited reserve of 50 cases. All wines are available only on the premises.
Douglas A. Kass, president of Seabreeze Partners, on why he likes Olympic Curling. (via On Wall Street, a Romance With the Curling Stone - NYTimes.com)
If I was going to write a comedic sketch about Wall Street fat cats watching the Olympics, this line would totally be in it. It would be the centerpiece. Also, the characters would be wearing top hats and monocles.
