Recent content by Ernie Limperis

They're claiming that wooden crates for high-end wines will sell for $50-$250 at auction. Premier Cru used to just pile them up in the parking lot, free for the taking. I think I've mentioned that some of my generic homemade Cali Rhone blends sit in my basement in Chavie crates.

Fox pled guilty to fraud this week. This article says a lot about the man. http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/08/11/embattled-berkeley-wine-store-owner-spe nt-almost-900k-on-women-i-met-online/

I followed him for many years, beginning with the first book of short stories, but after Drop City I felt that his dark humor/irony was getting monotonous and predictable, so I haven't read subsequent novels. The NYer story was ok.

The winery at Nalle Vineyards in Dry Creek is in an old quonset hut covered with a thick layer of dirt holding a green roof. They don't need heating or cooling, just lighting and equipment power. I don't know if they've installed solar panels, but they'd surely be ZNE if the have or will...

Nice. Amazon doesn't show the table of contents, so I can't check whether my local favorite ZNE building is included. It's the West Branch of the Berkeley Public Library. http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Berkeley-library-branch-a-zero-net-energy-5100368.php The old building was dark and...

It's excellent, at least as good as the film. I had to miss the second season because of DVR scheduling conflicts, but the first one, with Billy Bob Thorton, was great.

A flaw in the corker one year put those lines in every bottle--over 150 of them--of my home wine. The lines appeared very shortly after I laid the bottles on their sides. I got another corker and re-corked them all.

Didn't feel much here in Berkeley (only 15 miles away), but these guys saw some serious damage:

I love pine nuts. On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving one year I got some to use in the dressing, and sampled a few. The next morning the syndrome set in, couldn't taste anything except that metallic bitterness, and I was cooking most of the holiday dishes. I couldn't even tell whether...

Yair Margalit's Concepts in Wine Chemistry has a fairly comprehensive section on it.

De-lurking to mention that yes, there can be differences between the nostrils, documented here: http://www.academicwino.com/2012/09/olfactory-perception-wine-experts-novices.html/ Ernie in Berkeley

Sometime, pop in a late '70s show of your choice and pop open a 2006 Patricia Green Cellars "Four Winds" vineyard pinot. Yes, the vineyard is named after the line in Franklin's Tower. The pairing is exquisite.

I'm afraid I have to relinquish my coveted waiting-list position. My freelance income is tanking along with the rest of the economy, and I'll be drinking Grocery Outlet overruns and pruno for a while.

Put me on the list, please! - Ernie in ThreBloKel (three blocks from Kermit Lynch)