Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light
Posted in Food and drink on Jun 18th, 2008
GINI 18 was taken place on June 15, 2008 (yes, Father’s Day) So there were a few fathers among us choose to spend that evening having wine with us. As mentioned in my previous post, I missed GINI 17, so I think Andrew and Vincent are the only ones who have been to all tastings. […]
Posted in Food and drink on Jun 15th, 2008
We had our GINI 16 back in Dec. 8, 2007. (And I’m blogging half year later, now how’s that possible?) I suppose many things were happening; there was GINI 17 (and I missed it), and there was Vegas and Napa (so quite a bit of wine already) So now in June 2008, we are having […]
Posted in Food and drink on Sep 29th, 2007
The theme of GINI 15 is to compare cool-zone and moderate-zone Pinot Noirs. The book Great Wine Made Simple ((Immer, Andrea. Great Wine Made Simple, New York, 2000. Pg 106)), outlines what we can expect from the wine in different climate zone. For the cool-zone, we have two bottles of Burgundy (same wine in fact, […]
Posted in Food and drink on Sep 29th, 2007
We just had our GINI 15 last night, Sept. 28, 2007. (And I’m blogging the next day, now how’s that possible?) Our theme this time is to compare cool-zone and moderate-zone Pinot Noirs. We got this theme straight from the book Great Wine Made Simple. ((Immer, Andrea. Great Wine Made Simple, New York, 2000. Pg […]
Posted in Food and drink on Sep 4th, 2007
As I mentioned in my previous post, we wanted to have a tasting of wine with distinct differences. So we ended up focusing on the concentration part of the wine. At first, I thought that’s pretty easy, I thought it’s about the concentration of flavour, whether it is weak or powerful. However, as Vincent W […]
Posted in Food and drink on Sep 4th, 2007
GINI 14 was taken place on August 11, 2007, and so that was less than a month ago. And that means one thing, I have no more GINI tasting to blog (until the next GINI, which could happen quite soon) As you can tell, even though I have stopped blogging, we have not stopped wine […]
Posted in Food and drink on Sep 4th, 2007
Unlike the wine labels in the Old World, the ones in the New world are easier to read (mainly because it’s mostly in English) But there are more names to the famous regions of Napa and Sonoma. Within those big regions, there are quite a few sub-regions, or appellations, and they are called Approved Viticultural […]
Posted in Food and drink on Sep 4th, 2007
While I’m at it, I guess I should just keeping blogging. Who knows how long I can keep this up, before another long drought of silence (in my blog of course) GINI 13 was taken place on July 14, 2007. It was the second time for us GINI group trying Cabernet Sauvignon. Andrew is the […]
Posted in Food and drink on Sep 1st, 2007
As with French wine names, I am just as lost when it comes to Italian wine names. There are tons of information about wine in the web and in books, but a lot of them require you to have some knowledge about wine already, so it’s a little hard to follow. Then a friend of […]
Posted in Food and drink on Sep 1st, 2007
As I mentioned in GINI 11, we were going to try some Italian Red wine, but then because Vince M, a big fan of Italian Red, couldn’t make it, we had something else instead. So for GINI 12, here are the Italian Reds. And we made Vince M to host this gathering for us (Thanks, […]
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