I dumped the Thinking Parents question on Daryl, and he came up with a good one.
Question: Do you agree that college for all is a worthy goal? Why or why not? Is it even a reasonable goal for all students to be “college ready”?
My short answer is no. Of course, it’s more complicated than that […]
Lots of doom and gloom have accompanied the radical swing in the Fredericksburg real estate market. For the recent couple of years, nothing but bad news has been reported in the media. Of course, that has begun to change.
A few days ago, I had the privilege to once again be a guest on the local […]
Monday September 29th [1862] Have just received a letter from Papa dated Charleston 24th. He expected to sail that night in the ‘Hero’ a British steamer. Matsy writes too, and sends Ma a lock of Papa’s hair. If the enemy does not catch th…
Once upon a time in America, not so long ago, holding a glass of wine that could be mistaken for White Zinfandel was considered a social death sentence. Drinking pink was a clear admission that you knew nothing about wine, or worse…that you had lousy taste in wine. In recent years, the newspapers and the magazines started in on rosé wines, and every summer there were suggestions from those in-the-know that, perhaps, drinking pink was no longer so uncool. Thank goodness we’ve turned a corner on this (much to the amazement of the French, who have long known the pleasures of rosé). In fact, pink wine is becoming the new symbol of hipness.
A rosé wine has some of the color typical of a red wine, but only enough to turn it pink. The colors can range from a pale salmon, deep rust, rose-petal pink to a vivid near-purple, depending on the grapes and wine making techniques.
How rosé is made: 1. Skin contact – red-skinned grapes are crushed and the skins are left in contact with the juice for a short period, from a few hours to a few days. The grapes are then pressed and the skins discarded, rather than left in contact during fermentation(as with red wine making). The longer that the skins are left in contact with the juice, the more intense the color of the wine. 2. Saignée – or bleeding, is used when the winemaker desires to impart more tannin and color to a red wine, and removes some pink juice from the unfermented juice at an early stage, in a process known as “bleeding the vats”. The juice is then fermented separately, producing the rosé as a by-product of the red wine. 3. Blending – not a commonly used method, the simple mixing of red wine to a white to impart color, This method is discouraged in most wine growing regions now (except for Champagne). Even in Champagne, many producers do not use this method.
More later….
Is this rotation I see on a hailstorm heading toward Fredericksburg? It seems to be strolling down US 17 with a gleam in its eye…and its seems to be holding together pretty well even after sunset. Stay tuned!
Looks like tomorrow may bring yet another late July chase. Models are showing enough instability and shear in the Mid-Atlantic to provide some long-lived updrafts, and with enough luck a mesoscale boundary or two may form (outflow from previous storms…
He’s 17 now. Damn, I feel old. 17 is a goofy enough age without being 17 and dealing with the fact that half the free world has seen your penis.
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Now that we’re 100 days from election day, Virginians are getting serious about electing Mark Warner Senator and Barack Obama President. More than a hundred Democrats from Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania, King George, Culpepper, Caroline Co., and elsewhere came by the local Coordinated Campaign office to chat with the former Governor this morning before knocking on doors and putting up […]
Once upon a time in America, not so long ago, holding a glass of wine that could be mistaken for White Zinfandel was considered a social death sentence. Drinking pink was a clear admission that you knew nothing about wine, or worse…that you had lousy taste in wine. In recent years, the newspapers and the magazines started in on rosé wines, and every summer there were suggestions from those in-the-know that, perhaps, drinking pink was no longer so uncool. Thank goodness we’ve turned a corner on this (much to the amazement of the French, who have long known the pleasures of rosé). In fact, pink wine is becoming the new symbol of hipness.
A rosé wine has some of the color typical of a red wine, but only enough to turn it pink. The colors can range from a pale salmon, deep rust, rose-petal pink to a vivid near-purple, depending on the grapes and wine making techniques.
How rosé is made:
