Recent content by Steve Guattery

Yes. I was careless with my wording and used ‘lots’ without thinking of the EU-required lot numbers assigned to wines. The lot number on the Clos Guillot is 2016, so I suspect there was only one lot of that wine in 2016. I probably should have said something along the lines of “different...

A different experience: Opened a lovely bottle of this tonight. Wide open; if there’s Brett, it’s just a hint that gives a touch of spice on the nose. Good acidity nicely balanced on the palate and an extended finish. This bottle was from Chambers, so it may be an issue of different lots.

Does she come out to the dining room in food-stained whites to talk to the guests?

Haven't ever seen that packaging in the US, but the Czechvar logo is the same other than the lettering around the outside. Budweiser and Czechvar are written in the same script as well.

Look for Czechvar, the name it’s sold under in the US because of a trademark dispute with Anheuser Busch. Prepandemic we used to get it from certain beer distributors here in Pennsylvania.

I associate that song with Webb Pierce, who had a big hit with it. Turns out that Pierce was not the first to record it; a quick check of the web indicates that Blaine Smith recorded it first a year before Pierce's version. Who knew?

Not to mention the Willows Inn, which also has a Noma connection: Willows Inn [Finally - couldn't embed the link on a tablet, had to go to a laptop. Computers, feh. Never could get the hang of them...]

All those points are necessary to recoup the investment in a very fancy (and highly reputed) restaurant, Cucine Nervi, and a new, modern winery. To add a little context, here's what we saw on our recent visit to Gattinara: Nervi-Conterno was just up the street from where we were staying, and...

Had a bottle of the 2012 basic Antoniolo Gattinara at a restaurant in Gattinara shortly after Thanksgiving. While not the gobsmacking delight that Ken's single-vineyard wine was, this bottle was an excellent, thoroughly enjoyable wine. 14% alcohol. Our Thanksgiving Day wine was a Gaggiano...

Whose perry (just to be able to avoid it in the future)? We drank a Gaggiano 2018 Bramaterra, which was very nice.

I remember once upon a time that Budweiser commercials switched from touting how it was made with barley to how it was made with rice.

If you knew Mark, you'd know that he spends a fair amount of time in a research library.

This is an important point given the rate at which technology changes. How long will the methods we currently use for encoding information continue, and, as encodings change, how much of current information will be updated? Get out enough generations and the programs for converting from one...

Both the La Rocca and the Calvarino are regularly available in Pennsylvania. The state currently shows availability of the 2015 for both and 2016 for the Calvarino (who says we're up to date?). Nice wines, though very different.

The hottest new thing since Pennsylvania tried wine vending machines in supermarkets. “Once the robot is programmed, it’s basically self-sufficient until the next software upgrade,”. Yup, software upgrades will do that...