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“I’m Not Drinking Any Fucking" Pinot Noir!

Have you’ve seen the movie Sideways? If you haven’t, you’re missing out. This is a movie about wine, and at the same time, not about wine. If you have seen it, you should remember this part of the movie.  It helped boost sales of Pinot Noir in The States and of course decrease Merlot sales. I witnessed this phenomenon first hand. I vividly remember drinking a glass of wine at Lavanda Restaurant & Wine Bar in Palo Alto when this movie hit the screens. I also remember that the movie was showing right next door to Lavanda and after the movie let out, people often wandered in and ordered a glass of Pinot Noir.

It’s been 6 years since the release of this movie and everyone still talks about Pinot Noir. In fact, to most wine connoisseurs, there is no more seductive grape than the Pinot Noir.  We knew this before the movie, and we still know it today. I too am a sucker for the great Burgundian Pinot Noir.  It’s a grape that can truly seduce with aromas of raspberries, cherries, forest floor and even flowers.  The Pinot Noir’s high acidity gives the wine freshness and longevity.  When you drink a truly great Pinot Noir, it can make you smile.

This being said folks, it’s time to move on and say “I’m not drinking any fucking Pinot Noir!” It’s time to give other (red) grapes a chance. Other grapes that I often look to to seduce me and make me smile!  Even getting me to jump out of my chair!  So what grapes am I talking about? Which grapes am I drinking most often these days?? Read ON!! Read the rest of this entry »

Category: "I'm not drinking any fucking Pinot Noir!", 1 WINE, 9 WINE THOUGHTS, natural wine (100% living wine)

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Have the French bureaucrats lost their mind?

This just gets to me so I had to share… Jean-Paul Brun’s Beaujolais are some of the most fantastic wines I have tasted in a long time and, for the first time in many months, I am drinking red wine. L’Ancien and Fleurie are so well made, and so damn good.. You have got to try these wines! Red fruit driven, fresh, concentrated and well balanced at only 12% alcohol! Natural (wild) yeast, non carbonic-maceration, very little sulfur added during the wine making process: not a “traditional” Beaujolais. Excellent you say? Thats not what the French governing body thinks!! What are the French bureaucrats thinking?!  Click on the Jean-Paul Brun link just below to read the full story:

Jean-Paul Brun

Category: 1 WINE, natural wine (100% living wine)

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