“In 1954 the village council of Châtauneuf-du-Pape was quite perturbed and apprehensive that flying saucers or ‘flying cigars’ might do damage to their vineyards were they to land therein. So, right-thinking men all, they passed an ordinance prohibiting the landing of flying saucers or flying cigars in their vineyards. (This ordinance has worked very well in discouraging such landings.) The ordinance further states that any volitional object that did alight was to be taken immediately to the pound.”
Tag Archives: Albarino
PODCAST #4 The white wines of Galicia, Spain “Green Spain”
In Podcast #4 ChrisO and Jon explore, the white wines of Galicia located in the north western part of Spain. We are joined by AdamW and taste some of the stellar whites from the region. Introduction to Galicia: Galicia is in the northwestern corner of Spain, separated by mountains from the rest of Castilla-Leon and [...]
You have to Albariño Crawl before you can walk
Imagine you were invited to a Pub crawl, only there was no beer and no Pub but in its place there was gourmet Tapas and Albariño, my kind of night!
And so starts a cool spring night in San Francisco where a collection of wine writers, bloggers, geeks, and PR professionals gathered to spoil themselves with great food and Rais Baixas’s top Albariños’ from the 2008 vintage. On the agenda were three diverse restaurants meant to highlight the varieties affinity with a diverse array of foods