Pinot Noir vs. Pinot Noir (Oregan and California) Farpointe Cellar Tasted Saturday, July 31, 2010 FLIGHT 1 2007 Walter Hansel Winery Pinot Noir The North Slope Vineyard – USA, California, Sonoma County, Russian River Valley The nose had cloves and forest floor, cherry and currant, and some spice at the end. The palate was soft, [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Spanish Wine Dinner
July 29th, 2010
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Spanish Wine Dinner Farpointe Cellar Tasted Thursday, July 29, 2010 FLIGHT 1 2007 Bodegas Alto Moncayo Campo de Borja – Spain, Aragón, Campo de Borja The nose had sweet black fruit and smoke, some spice, and a hint of floral notes. The palate was rich and sweet, with black cherry and black currant, spice and [...]
The New York Times and the Afghan documents
July 28th, 2010
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I guess they think they should decide what we need to know. The overriding significance of the tens of thousands of documents posted by WikiLeaks is their detailed exposure of the atrocities carried out by the US occupation against the people of Afghanistan. The cumulative impact of one report after another is a portrait of [...]
The Sherrod affair and American social reality
July 27th, 2010
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Divide and conquer at it’s finest. But the real story here says something very different. It speaks to the fact that there are two Americas, divided sharply along class lines. The political and media establishment could so seriously misread the Sherrod case in part because it is insulated by a hundred layers of wealth and [...]
V.I.P Australia Tasting
July 25th, 2010
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V.I.P Australia Tasting Farpointe Cellar Tasted Sunday, July 25, 2010 FLIGHT 1 2005 Clarendon Hills Shiraz Brookman – Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, Clarendon The nose had olive paste and cigar leaves, blackberry and raspberry, and some earth at the end. The palate had blackberry, and earth, raspberry and tobacco, and spicy olive finish. (93 Points) [...]
Rhone Rangers
July 24th, 2010
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Rhone Rangers Farpointe Cellar Tasted Saturday, July 24, 2010 FLIGHT 1 2008 Sanglier Cellars Rouge du Tusque – USA, California, Sonoma County The nose had meat and floral notes, blueberry and raspberry, and some creamy vanilla at the end. The palate had blueberry and toasted herbs, raspberry and pepper, and a creamy oak finish. (89 [...]
A lie exposed
July 20th, 2010
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Is this what you would call progressive social reform? In fact, Obama’s plan to gut health care was part of the unfinished business of the corporate-government offensive against the working class launched in the 1980s. This was also signaled by the Democratic president’s attack on health benefits for auto workers during last year’s forced bankruptcy [...]
Judge sentences US civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart to 10 years
July 17th, 2010
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I guess everyone is not entitled to proper representation. It is clearer than ever that this “chilling effect” was precisely the government’s aim in prosecuting Stewart. The prosecution, indeed persecution, of the civil liberties lawyer for nearly a decade, has been bound up from the beginning with the government’s “war on terrorism,” which was launched [...]
Second Cousins
July 17th, 2010
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Second Cousins Farpointe Cellar Tasted Saturday, July 17, 2010 FLIGHT 1 2009 Cliff Lede Sauvignon Blanc Napa Valley – USA, California, Napa Valley The nose had limes and beeswax, orange peel and pineapple, and a little tropical fruit at the end. The palate had pineapple and honey, oranges and limes, and a nice mineral finish. [...]
Liberal television host Rachel Maddow solidarizes herself with US military in Afghanistan
July 15th, 2010
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“Liberals” aren’t so liberal. Maddow is part of the upper-middle-class liberal left. She is a product of a period in which questions of personal identity, at the expense of social class, emerged as the major component of the American liberal outlook and the orientation of the Democratic Party. The striving for privileges by sections of [...]
