http://blog.snooth.com Find Better Wines Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:38:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We almost went a week day without posting, but this one slips in just in time! If you're not living in the US or American then this might not mean too much to you, but to those that are: happy Independence Day! View of the East River fireworks in NYC http://blog.snooth.com/2008/07/04/happy-july-4th/ For this week’s Wine and Music pairing I have chosen a band and a bottle from Oregon – a 2007 Adelsheim Rose from Willamette and Portland based Blind Pilot. There is a great review of the wine by Matt Kramer in The Oregonian (June 16th) which has a reference to music ... http://blog.snooth.com/2008/07/03/oregon-originals/ I thought I would follow the trends in some of the recent blog posts here on Snooth to talk about pairing food and wine. But first, a couple of apologies before I begin. First for not sharing this sooner with all of you and not ordering you to ... http://blog.snooth.com/2008/07/02/pairing-pinot/ So now you're searching, rating, reviewing, and wishlisting wines like a Snooth pro -- what's next? Wine is a social product, and Snooth provides a good complement of social networking features you can use to communicate with like-minded oenophiles. 5. Find your friends. The quickest way to find your friends who are ... http://blog.snooth.com/2008/07/01/snooth-manual-part-ii/ It's hard to read the title of Alice Feiring's new book without construing the work as a well-aimed character assassination on the world's most prolific wine critic, but she makes it fairly clear throughout that she is crusading against on an icon, and not the man himself. For a ... http://blog.snooth.com/2008/06/30/robert-parker-goes-under-the-feiring-squad/ Early on I had blogged about the responsibility of wine knowledge and how people rely on you for recommendations. I have found out the one thing that is even more nerve racking than making a recommendation on a good wine... that is trying to identify a wine when you ... http://blog.snooth.com/2008/06/27/blind-tasting/ For today's Wine and Music pairing I chose a refreshing 2006 California Chardonnay and a flavorful Dub album which was released in 2007. The wine is fermented in 100% stainless steel and therefore has minimal oak influence. Unoaked wine is known to emphasize the natural flavors of the grapes, along ... http://blog.snooth.com/2008/06/26/unoaked-dub/ If you've spent time on the blog or on the forums, you'll have noticed we've been building a lively community on Snooth. And to make it even better, we need more people. To make it more enticing to invite friends and colleagues who haven't yet checked out the site, we've come ... http://blog.snooth.com/2008/06/25/win-a-winecave/ I have prematurely become an old man in at least one respect, I yell at mass media devices when I am angry or upset. I haven't crossed the line to where I am screaming at horror movie characters to not enter rooms that are clearly occupied by axe wielding felons, ... http://blog.snooth.com/2008/06/25/the-omnibibers%e2%80%99-dilemma/ My next post promises to dive into that not-so-elusive yet expansive realm of food and wine pairing, but before that post comes into fruition, I wanted to direct your attention to a very special food and wine project. I discovered this project while researching at Cal, where in the depths of ... http://blog.snooth.com/2008/06/24/introducing-the-uc-berkeley-food-and-wine-archives/