2008 Dr. Loosen rziger Wrzgarten Riesling Sptlese, Mosel, Germany

There are a few categories of wine that qualify for the designation of “I just don’t drink nearly enough of this stuff” in my house, and one of the top candidates is German Riesling. When it’s good, it’s just so damn good. It goes so well with food, and it makes you happy. What’s not to love? Of course, to the uninitiated (and that applied to me about six years ago) it can be an intimidating landscape to navigate. The inscrutable labels, the different levels of sweetness, the unfamiliar quality designations — they all contribute to an unease for many wine lovers that I remember well. Luckily, I got over my fear and learned enough to navigate my way through the forest of umlauts and hard consonants, and have been rewarded with experiencing some of the most delicious wines on the planet. This particular bottle is a near-perfect example of everything good that German Riesling has to offer, thanks to its legendary producer, fantastic vineyard site, and classic flavors. The name on the label is one of the most well known …

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Gaddafi remarks cause outrage

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s two-day visit to Italy ran into trouble on Sunday when he urged 500 young Italian women to convert to Islam and then suggested that the whole of Europe should convert. read more

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Saatchi & Saatchi makes ad for Lurpak butter featuring NYC cupcake bakery Butter Lane

From UTalkMarketing , some cool news about one of our local New York City favorites, Butter Lane : Saatchi & Saatchi London has launched its first campaign for Lurpak since landing the global account for the premium butter and blends brand earlier this year. The account covers all markets across the world except the UK. The campaign, which is initially being rolled out across the Middle East and Europe, broke with a 30 second TV ad, followed up by a 60 second TV ad. The TV spots are part of a documentary film made by Saatchi & Saatchi, featuring Pam Nelson, co-owner of the New York bakery ‘Butter Lane’, telling the story of how Lurpak butter helps the cupcakes she makes “the best on the planet”. Shot inside the bakery in the east Village, Pam Nelson talks about how she quit Wall Street to make cupcakes and enticingly shows and describes quality ingredients being put together to create a little piece of heaven, exemplifying the quality of the Lurpak brand. It is the first in a series of films that will be created from around the world focusing on people who are passionate about the food they create (where butter is an essential ingredient in

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Samuel’s Gorge Winery, Mclaren Vale, Australia: Current Releases

I visited McLaren Vale in March of this year, to get a deeper sense of the place and the wines. I had a great time, but the whole while I was there, I didn’t really get the sense that I was in a valley. McLaren Vale is indeed a valley, but barely, and is a sort of lumpy one, defined more by the fact that there are some areas of uplift to the North and South, than a real sense of “valleyness” if you know what I mean. But in the heart of McLaren vale, there is a real valley. Or perhaps more accurately, a gorge — with steep slopes plunging down to a river that flows to the Gulf of Saint Vincent a few miles away. This fissure in the midst of the McLaren vale is the Onkaparinga River National Park, a 700-acre bit of wilderness in the midst of a world-class wine growing region. Perched on the lip of this gorge lies a 19th century farmstead, with an old stone barn, and the scrubby stumps of olive trees hinting at the harvests …

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Schramsberg Vineyards, Napa: A Few Current Releases

At the risk of oversimplifying things past the point of reasonableness, I’d like to suggest that there are really two kinds of wineries in Napa Valley. Those that have been made great in modern times and those that were great long before Napa Cabernet cost more than even $1.00 a bottle. There are a handful of wineries that must be considered some of the valley’s historical treasures, and those that continue to make excellent wine (not all do) are to be treasured even more for it. The famous sign that welcomes the world to Napa Valley hosts a quote by author Robert Louis Stevenson: “…and the wine was bottled poetry.” In the early 1880’s Stevenson took his honeymoon in the northern end of Napa valley, and wrote about it in a book called the Silverado Squatters. In it, he describes his visit to the property of German immigrant Jacob Schram: “Mr. Schram’s, on the other hand, is the oldest vineyard in the valley, eighteen years old I think; yet he began a penniless barber, and even after he had broken ground up here with his black malvoisies, continued for long to tramp the …

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Video: A Tour of the Doomsday Seed Vault

Remember the Svalbard Global Seed Vault that was in the news in February 2008? It’s the doomsday bunker built by the Global Crop Diversity Trust whose goal is to house all the world’s seeds in the Arctic safe from rising water levels and ( gulp ) nuclear war. You know, in case we humans really pull a stupid move. Anyway, this video from National Geographic takes us inside. It’s a must-watch, folks.

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In Season: Peas

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Tasting Tour: Eating Around the World in London

This post is part of our Tasting Tour series , which is brought to you by Continental Airlines . In my hometown of New York City, you can find good eats from just about every nation under the sun. And in the great city of London, that’s just as true. While British food has come a long way in recent years—from gastropubs to molecular gastronomy—London is a cosmopolitan city of astonishing cultural breadth, and many of its real culinary treasures come from the rich cuisines of all corners of the globe. From hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese to high-end Italian, cheap Turkish to haute Thai, there’s no country you can’t visit—with just your Oyster Card and a sense of adventure. Cheap Lebanese: Al-Waha [ Photo: Al-Waha ] This restaurant (and several others on this list) comes recommended to us by my friend and colleague Fuchsia Dunlop , author of Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China and a truly accomplished food journalist. It’s very moderately priced Lebanese restaurant in Notting Hill, with astonishingly bright, clean flavors and perfectly made meze. While much of the menu may look familiar—hummus, labneh, tabouleh—Al-Waha will leave …

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Jasper Hill Winery, Heathcote, Australia: Current Releases

The best wines in the world all share at least one thing in common, and that is a winemaker who brings a unique combination of both vision and passion to their work. At the age of thirty, winemaker Ron Laughton found himself managing the southern hemisphere’s largest cheese factory, and with a total absence of passion for what he was doing. Having grown up on a farm and gotten degrees in chemistry and food science, Laughton worked all over the world for Kraft Foods before being headhunted by an Australian dairy company. His career path seemed as assured as it was unbearable. “That was about the time they invented the term mid-life crisis, I think” says Laughton. “Just in time for me to have one.” Laughton knew he would never be “gold watch material” but he wasn’t clear on exactly what he wanted to do, only that he wanted to do something on his own. “Given my training there were a few paths I could follow, and wine seemed easier than cheese. When I was thirty or thirty-two I don’t know if I really knew what I was doing. Now looking back, I know why I’m here. My …

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Ischia volcano could erupt

As Europe recovers from the Icelandic dust cloud, the Head of Italy’s Civil Protection Agency, Guido Bertalaso, warns that the volcano which worries him most in his own country is the Ischia one. The Ischia volcano, which last erupted 700 years ago, has what Mr Bertalaso refers to as “the most loaded gun barrel” because of the build-up in its magma chamber.

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