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lagilmanIt's difficult to diet when you're also working on perfecting your wonton-making skills. Just sayin'... (Rabbi David used to assure me that tortillas were Mexican matzo. I wonder if I can claim wonton wrappers as Chinese matzo? Nah, probably not....)
For the wine geeks: Last night I attended a wine-tasting for several German producers. Since I'm always on the lookout for a good Riesling, I went with high hopes and a ready wallet. Unfortunately, while some of them were quite good (the 2005 Knebel Reisling Winninger Rottgen Spatlese Trocken [$23] and the 2002 Stein Reisling Bremmer Calmont Auslese [$27]), overall I wasn't knocked out by anything. I did, however, enjoy speaking to the winemakers and my fellow tasters, who ran the gamut from off-the-street to a young Frenchwoman with considerable academic and practical knowledge of wines.
One wine I can recommend is the 2005 Stein Reisling Bremmer Calmont Spatlese Trocken, at $18. Very nice, smooth and easy drinking, we agreed that this was a wine you could open over appetizers, and keep drinking through an entire Spring or Summer meal.
Why I love my editor, #438925: In the e-mail today, the preliminary copy for BLOOD FROM STONE, with more or less carte blanc to change it as needed. (considering they pay me to write copy for other people, this isn't exactly a leap of faith. But it's something she doesn't have to do, and does.)
Hrm. And now to decide: more writing, or make like a cat and curl up in the sunlight for a nap? *looks at projected schedule for rest of year, goes back to desk*
For the wine geeks: Last night I attended a wine-tasting for several German producers. Since I'm always on the lookout for a good Riesling, I went with high hopes and a ready wallet. Unfortunately, while some of them were quite good (the 2005 Knebel Reisling Winninger Rottgen Spatlese Trocken [$23] and the 2002 Stein Reisling Bremmer Calmont Auslese [$27]), overall I wasn't knocked out by anything. I did, however, enjoy speaking to the winemakers and my fellow tasters, who ran the gamut from off-the-street to a young Frenchwoman with considerable academic and practical knowledge of wines.
One wine I can recommend is the 2005 Stein Reisling Bremmer Calmont Spatlese Trocken, at $18. Very nice, smooth and easy drinking, we agreed that this was a wine you could open over appetizers, and keep drinking through an entire Spring or Summer meal.
Why I love my editor, #438925: In the e-mail today, the preliminary copy for BLOOD FROM STONE, with more or less carte blanc to change it as needed. (considering they pay me to write copy for other people, this isn't exactly a leap of faith. But it's something she doesn't have to do, and does.)
Hrm. And now to decide: more writing, or make like a cat and curl up in the sunlight for a nap? *looks at projected schedule for rest of year, goes back to desk*
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Date: 2008-04-17 07:35 pm (UTC)I have a personal fondness for Joh Jos. Prüm, myself, especially their kabinette. Lime and flint and amazingly clean... mmmm. Not inexpensive, though. :-(
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Date: 2008-04-17 07:48 pm (UTC)Pardon my iggerance--how can a wine be both Spätlese and Trocken? I had thought those were mutually exclusive terms? But I am only an egg.
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Date: 2008-04-17 07:57 pm (UTC)Kabinett, spätlese, and auslese are the levels of sugar (sweetness) of grapes at harvest, with kabinett being the driest.
Halbtrocken (half-dry) and trocken (dry) refer to the levels of sugar after fermentation.
So, a spätlese trocken is a sweet wine that was fermented until dry.
Do I understand exactly what that means? Not yet. But it's on my to-study list. I vill drink until I get it right!
(for anyone new to this game, German wine labels are a bitch to read. OMG and ow...)
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Date: 2008-04-17 08:08 pm (UTC)Isn't that always the way it is? Or at least, it sure feels like it some days.
I'll have to keep an eye out for the kabinette. It will give me an excuse to indulge!
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