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Day Six of the No-Wine Experience

0 Comments Published by William Wilson June 21st, 2008 in Wine and Health

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Screaming Eagle, at 1/10th the price, almost

0 Comments Published by William Wilson June 20th, 2008 in Wine

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Day Three of the No-Wine Experience

0 Comments Published by William Wilson June 18th, 2008 in Miscellaneous

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The future of Wine For Newbies

4 Comments Published by William Wilson June 15th, 2008 in Podcast

I received an email this past week that was fairly critical of the podcast. The author all but said he turned the podcast off and smashed his mp3 device.

I know–some (or most) of the episodes can be hard to listen to. Some are even painful for me. We all know that we don’t like to hear the sound of our own voice on recordings, but beyond that I have to agree: some of those episodes are simply crummy.

If I felt I was up to the task, I would probably re-record the episodes to make a new “complete set” of materials. The simple reality, though, is I’m not a good voice actor–and that’s what I think I really need if I want to re-do these in the right way. So, I’m going to mull that idea around for a while. I have contacts in the theatre department at the University of Notre Dame, so I could probably find a student who would enjoy a project like this.

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Wine Blogging Wednesday 46: Rhône White Varietals

4 Comments Published by William Wilson June 12th, 2008 in Wine Blogging Wednesday

This month’s WBW (yes, I know it’s Thursday) came at an opportune time and with the perfect theme. On Sunday, Catherine and I were fortunate enough to host Mat Garretson of Garretson Wines, along with a number of our friends from the local wine geek bunch. As some of you may know, Mat is one of the driving forces behind the annual Hospice du Rhone festival in California. He makes wines from Rhone varietals, and he brought a bottle of his Late Bottled Viognier to share. (Unfortunately, another bottle did not survive the flight from California. Ouch!)

In anticipation of Mat’s arrival, we had a good number of Rhone wines to enjoy, both red and white. For me, the most interesting wines were a 1985 Saint-Joseph (which was in pretty good shape and drinking nicely), Mat’s Viognier, and the Twisted Oak “Percent At Pound Dollar Exclamation” blend.

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We’ve enjoyed this wine twice now (Catherine let me have a sip or two), and I can assure you I will work hard to acquire more. I’m also going to work at acquiring some of Mat Garretson’s gems as well.

That’s it. Not much of a wine review, I know, but hopefully the stories made the read worthwhile.

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A glass of wine a day keeps liver disease away

0 Comments Published by William Wilson June 11th, 2008 in Miscellaneous

At least that’s the findings of a recent medical study. As one who may be dealing with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, this is welcome news (although it suggests I should definitely not assume that if one glass is good, two must be better).

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Happy Memorial Day

0 Comments Published by William Wilson May 26th, 2008 in Current Affairs

Closing in on 1,000,000 wine lessons downloaded

1 Comment Published by William Wilson May 25th, 2008 in Miscellaneous, Podcast

Wow…this is rather humbling. Sometime within the next, oh, sixty days or so, the 1,000,000th podcast episode will be downloaded. Unfortunately, I don’t have any tools that will let me identify who the person is that downloads that file, otherwise I’d offer up some kind of prize.

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Two months, no wine!

2 Comments Published by William Wilson May 24th, 2008 in Podcast

Starting in about two weeks, I’m going to be completely dry: no wine, no beer, no single malt, nothing with any alcohol in it.

Why do something so crazy?

Several months ago a routine blood test showed some elevated liver enzymes. Follow up blood work, along with discontinuing some medications that might have been at the root, revealed the enzymes were still elevated. Additional blood tests came back normal, and a liver ultrasound revealed a condition known as fatty liver disease.

As my doctor explained it, some people deposit extra fat in their legs, some in their posteriors, and some in their livers. It’s a sort of genetic thing, I guess. For me, some fat gets deposited in the liver. Not cool, unfortunately.

Fatty liver disease can be caused by excessive alcohol intake, but the doctor and I agree that even with my elevated level of wine consumption, wine should not be the cause. There is no way, however, of being certain, without trying serious alterations to one’s medical and alcoholic intake.

So, for the last two months I have refrained from taking a different medication that can cause this problem. I will undergo some blood work shortly that will *hopefully* show the liver enzymes have gone down. For the next sixty days, I will go with no alcohol intake at all. (Needless to say, having spent the last week at Walt Disney World, I’ve had a bit more wine than normal. :-)). I don’t anticipate any problems, although I will miss it with Saturday dinners and so on. Hopefully we’ll learn that my wine consumption has nothing to do with the liver enzyme issue, and we can identify some other factor at work.

If not, then I guess I’ll have a nice collection of wine for sale (unless, of course, Mrs. Winegeek wants to hang onto one or more bottles!).

Robert Mondavi 1913-2008

0 Comments Published by William Wilson May 16th, 2008 in Wine

If there is one person who can be credited with making the California wine industry what it is today, that person is Robert Mondavi. His vision and drive were instrumental in transforming California wines from cheap, jug-fillers to world class wines.

Robert Mondavi died today at the age of 94.

Wine Spectator has a very good article on the man, his mission, and what he helped create.