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last I have a spare moment to catch up on the best wine writing on the internet via my RSS reader...
Derrick (Obsession with Food) is looking at Zinfandel and worries over the high alchol levels found in this Californian classic. To me, if the wine has enough weight - and most are very big and chunky, then high alcohol doesn't bother me. Derrick seems to think otherwise...
Staying in the single varietal vein Beau, with little forethought, plonks a bottle of Merlot in his shopping basket. Can't see why there is such an anti-Merlot movement myself. I couldn't do without a decent St.Emilion once in a while, although of course Merlot here is generally blended with other varieties. Beau goes Italian with his selection.
Apart from the odd rum I generally don't experiment with spirits. But that doesn't stop me following the Scotch Blog. Plenty of news and notes from the American angle; he has just set-up a whisky forum Whisky 101. I have even less time at the moment to look in on forums but for the whisky lover this might be of interest.
Another thing I am hopeless at is regularly following the wine podcasts pumped out by GrapeVine (the latest covers Pinot Noir) and Tim at WineCast. The latest cast is co-hosted with Alan Baker of the RatCast Podcast. A new one to me and another to add to the list of stuff I really would like to do/listen to but never seem to have the chance...
Cakes so amazing they'd be hard to cut into
Fruit juice: An invitation to diabetes?
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