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Wine Geekery Oenodynamic

Physics and wine? Ultimate wine geekery!

I shouldn’t be surprised that whilst researching for some wine geekery to post on this blog, I found a team of physicists at the EPFL in Lausanne itself who have studied the hydrodynamics of swirling wine. They call it oenodynamics. Here is an article from Science Magazine back in 2011 about their curiosity and discoveries: …

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Category: Wine geekery

Paolo Basso

Une rencontre avec notre sommelier suisse Paulo Basso – par le journal Bilan

Lisez l’article complet sur ​​le site Bilan. Read the entire article on the Bilan website. Les astuces du meilleur sommelier du monde 2013

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Category: Wine geekery

For the wine geek in all of us / Pour le connaisseur de vin en chacun de nous

Here is an interesting take on the rivulets of wine after you swirl it in your glass. Voici un point de vue intéressant sur ​​les ruisseaux de vin après vous agitez dans votre verre (en anglais).

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Category: Wine geekery

On Pinot Noir and Men

How many stories are there about that pinot noir quote in Sideways? How many people did it resonate with? I know I was one of them. Bear with me, it is a good story. When I first met my husband, we were colleagues working in a start up in California. At that time, he was …

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Category: Ma vie en Suisse, Wine geekery

Pairing wine and moose

‘Nuff said

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Category: Life in the Yukon, Wine geekery

So gentlemen, how would you describe your woman as wine?

My friend Katey over at John Tyler Wines wrote a post last week where she started asking men how they would describe their ideal woman as wine. Head on over, have a look.  In this world of wine and wine-lover vocabulary and all the discourse on the internet about wine and loving wine, you’d think …

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Category: Bits and Bytes, Wine geekery

If you were a piece of winery equipment, what would you be…

Charlie told me about an interview he once had. He’d been asked this question: If you were a piece of winery equipment, what would you be? He answered that he would be a pumpover device. I had to ask what a pumpover device was. Apparently, it’s the piece of equipment that pumps the wine over …

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Category: Bits and Bytes, On Being Me, Wine geekery

On Being Chardonnay…

My friend and neighbour Paul Brasset has been a winemaker in Sonoma County for over thirty years. Over those thirty years, he has won the Sonoma County Sweepstakes award for his Chardonnay (more than once). He has recently started selling wines from his own cellars, but has started with only Syrah and Zinfandel. I asked …

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Category: Bits and Bytes, Life in Healdsburg, Life in the Yukon, On Being Me, Wine geekery

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