Friends and family, NYC. Haven’t seen my cousin and sister in years, they’ve been living in Israel.J-traindj sollyj sullivanvalentine
Stonewall’s Reserve Stout is a very limited release from Blue & Gray Brewing Company. This special flavor was created by aging the brewery’s Stonewall Stout in oak bourbon barrels. Barrel aging seems to be all the rage now, and I’ve tasted mixed re…
For President’s Day, the AP asked 65 historians to rank the U.S. Presidents. There’s much to debate obviously, like George W. Bush as high as 36. Below Hoover and Nixon, so I won’t protest too much.
History is the best judge. Harry Truman is the most unpopular President we’ve ever had, since scientific polling started post-FDR. Now he’s one of […]
I’m not as outdoorsy a girl as all of these woods walks would imply, but last week we had a power outage that kicked me off the computer for the afternoon, abruptly ending the workday. My husband suggested a walk that starts right outside our back d…
Friends and family, NYC. Haven’t seen my cousin and sister in years, they’ve been living in Israel.J-traindj sollyj sullivanvalentine
Friends and family, NYC. Haven’t seen my cousin and sister in years, they’ve been living in Israel.J-traindj sollyj sullivanvalentine
Often when I’m recommending wines a customer starts by telling me what they don’t like. “I don’t like Chardonnay”, or “I don’t like Merlot”. If you really want to know what you like and what you don’t, this isn’t the way to go about it. For a start, nobody can really make a judgement like “I don’t like Chardonnay” because there are too many of them to rule out before you can say that. But that aside, I have found that when it comes to preferences, where the wine comes from is far more important than what grape variety it’s made out of. A Chardonnay from Chablis can taste completely different than a Chardonnay from Napa, to the point where you wouldn’t believe the two wines were made from the same grape.
Wine making regions tend to have certain things in common, such as soil composition, weather and so on. That means that wines from these regions often share similar characteristics. Chardonnay from Chablis tends to be light with lots of minerality where Chardonnay from Napa is often fuller-bodied, buttery, and with more fruit flavor. I’m generalizing of course, but it’s roughly true, or at least true enough to set your preferences by. This is also a big reason why many European wines identify themselves by where they come from, e.g. Chianti, Bordeaux, Champagne, and so on.
So from now on I advise you to to check the wine label for where a wine is made each time you try a new one and see if a pattern in your preferences emerges. It’s also fun to do wine tastings by getting several wines made from the same grape but different places and compare them. And please, pretty please don’t refuse of a wine because of what country it comes from. Saying “I don’t like French wine” is as ridiculous as saying “I don’t like American wine”.
So, I’ve decided to switch it up a bit, as not to overwhelm my readers with daily holiday observations. I will continue to post my daily holidays on Twitter. Feel free to follow me at @SarahStelmok for those updates. However, on SarahiouslySpeaking, I will be posting the celebration of the week.
This week’s celebration is for […]
I’m a big fan of The Big Bang Theory on CBS. I’d never really thought about this before, but character Sheldon Cooper certainly does display all the classic traits of Asperger’s.
Either way the show is funny. Any show that will make a reference to the spherical cow joke and just expect it’s audience to get […]
UPDATE: A commenter suggested I bump this on Monday so people can have a Monday laugh and since I’m too lazy to write another post on Gary Wilson right now, here you go.
This, my friends in the militia business, is why you don’t want to be standing behind someone that’s firing a RPG:
H/t: The Jawa […]
