Recent content by David Erickson

As we say down home: You won't believe it's Nouveau!

It is not. From my largest customer in western MA: "Due to State of Massachusetts regulations, we are sorry to inform you that Table & Vine is currently not allowed to ship alcohol outside of Massachusetts. However, if you know anyone locally that we could ship to we will gladly arrange that...

Thank you! Due to a series of misunderstandings, I am suddeny going day after tomorrow.

And let us not forget this: Shattered Myths ...when I tracked down the researcher who did the study, she groaned. Then she started laughing. “I can’t believe how reporters ran away with this thing,” says Kari Russell. “That’s because so many people want to believe” that glasses make a...

That's quite a list. http://www.osterialletestiere.it/Testiere/Vini.pdf

Free on my Kindle! Thanks!

I searched, and read Thor's piece, which was informative, but also from 2010. I'll be there the last week in February, missing, I hope, most if not all the "Best Masked Costume" contests. I do plan to walk and get lost (I still do that in Boston). I hope also to eat and drink reasonably well...

I'm hoping Ms. Bowman and others will have a suggestion or two. Colmar, also? Many thanks.

Darn, and here I was hoping Trebbiolo was a hybrid of Trebbiano and Nebbiolo.

They could have saved a lot of time (although not had as much fun) if someone had taken a moment to speak of the difference between cardinal and ordinal numbers.

Well, I had to look up Anne Parillaud and then read the review. I remember it being very slick in a good way, and then running out of gas toward the end. And by golly, Janet Maslin wrote: "Mr. Besson...betrays his initial conception of Nikita as brutal and remorseless by letting her melt into an...

A history of melon de bourgogne in Oregon. Back in 1978...

I shudder to think what my economic status would be if I lived 5 minutes from Mandolin Brothers.

I've had variable luck with Jacky Blot's Domaine De La Taille Aux Loups "Triple Zero." Sometimes it shows a little fruit and a lot of mineralic character, and sometimes it's like chewing aluminum foil.

There are so many options in this category, it can get very confusing very quickly. So here are three ideas from my luthier friends, all well within the budget: Epiphone makes some very nice instruments under the "Masterbilt" name. I'd also take a look at guitars by Taylor. Finally...