2007 Anaba Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast

One of my greatest pleasures remains my “discovery” of small new wineries, and the opportunity to watch them mature over time. Of course, three vintages isn’t exactly a lot of time to watch a winery mature, but it’s quite exciting to see the third vintage of a winery that seemed to hit it out of the ballpark with their very first release. A couple of years ago some bottles showed up on my doorstep bearing the name Anaba in beautiful looping script. I was immediately intrigued to note that the first releases from this new Sonoma County winery were Rhone style blends — far from the typical initial foray that most new wineries make in Sonoma County. I noted at the time my surprise that they weren’t making a Pinot Noir, and received an e-mail note from the owner saying, essentially, “wait for it.” So, a year has gone by, and what should arrive on my doorstep last month, but a package of wines from Anaba, this time, including two very nice Pinot Noirs. Anaba Wines , named for the anabatic winds (big points with meteorology geeks) that…

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Wanna See a Vegan Panel at SXSW Next Year? Go Vote Now!

[Pick Panels Not Noses!] Remember when you learned about new music through those little booklets called “zines”? You read a short paragraph review of a record, took a gamble on it by sending your well-concealed cash to the distro, and a few weeks later the United States Postal Service delivered the record to your door? Well, South By Southwest (SXSW) has been around since those halcyon days, too, but it doesn’t mope around and wax nostalgic about the golden years prior to the Internet Revolution. Nowadays, it still organizes a bazillion live shows, as well as a film festival and a surprisingly diverse interactive portion that plays host to a slew of panels, such as those featuring bloggers who want to talk about blogging to other bloggers! Futuristic stuff! Our pal Stephanie of The Lazy Smurf’s Guide to Life has envisioned a panel for vegans to call their very own at the next SXSW in March 2011. Here’s the official description of ” Internet Activism Vegan Bloggers Take Over the World “: A surge of vegan bloggers has been using the internet to make change in the way people think about animals through new forms of activism. VeganMoFo (the vegan month of food) and worldwide…

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Cupcakes on TV: MasterChef on Fox

From Fiint.com yesterdat: MasterChef Season 1 Episode 5: Cupcake Challenge TV Episode Preview – An all two-hour new episode for the MasterChef will be going to air tonigh on FOX. The kitchen battle gets exciting each week together with the contenders of the cooking-reality show. Tonight, MasterChef will showcase a battle. Here is the episode’s overview. The contestants are asked to do make a single cupcake. They are given a time to prepare it and use the ingredients on the table. Yes it’s only a single cupcake but a difficult one, very difficult one. Mike, Faruq and Slim’s cupcakes were chosen to the worst and embarassing as what Gordon Ramsay said. But later, Iron Chef Cat Cora takes them to a truck stop for a team challenge. The fourteen contenders will battle for a real chef challenge and compete for $250,000 price and the chance to publish their own cookbook. Watch MasterChef Season 1 Episode 5 tonight on FOX at 8:00 PM ET.Catch the udpates and online streaming on FOX channel for the recap of MasterChef Season 1 or watch it online via Internet TV and other TV websites. And a Reality Wanted recap : Tracy could’ve been excited all day long but her melted cupcake won’t…

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1997 Calera Wine Company "Mills Vineyard" Pinot Noir, Mt. Harlan, CA

Those of you who know me well understand the soft spot I have in my heart for iconoclastic winemakers. The crazier the better, in my book, but at the very least, so steadfastly committed to their idea of what makes for great wine that they’re willing to persist in their quest even when everyone else says they are nuts. And that’s exactly what most people said when they spotted Josh Jensen driving up and down California in his beat-up Volkswagen stopping here and there to get out of the car and sprinkle hydrochloric acid on the ground — even those who were able to figure out what it was he was doing. Jensen was looking for limestone. And a lot of it. Several million tons, to be exact. It was the secret ingredient that made the great Burgundies of the world what they were, and Jensen wanted to make wine that was just as good. It was 1971, and Jensen had just finished working two harvests in Burgundy at Domaine de la Romanee Conti, and Domaine Dujac. Thanks to his father and some generous friends, Jensen had been drinking top Burgundies since before he was legally able, and despite an education that might have sent him into academia (Yale undergrad, Masters in Anthropology at Oxford), Jensen was in love with…

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My kidney for a job

An unemployed man from Friuli-Venezia Giulia placed an advertisement on the internet offering one of his kidneys in exchange for €100,000 or a job.

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2008 Clos de la Siete Red Wine, Mendoza, Argentina

Fifty miles south of the city of Mendoza the valley of Tunuyan feels less like a valley and more like a vast, kneeling supplicant to the immediate, looming bulk of the Northern Andes mountains. Though the valley floor is massive — sweeping away from the jagged, snow capped peaks in every possible direction as if it were trying to get out of the way of their falling bulk — you never get the sense that it is very flat. No matter where you stand, the world seems to be constantly tipping up towards (or down away from, as the case may be) the peaks above, leaving the uneasy feeling that somehow if you stopped walking or closed your eyes for a moment, you’d fall over — nudged off balance by a world pushed aside by the Andes. The topological uneasiness caused by the very real angle of the alluvial plains of Tunuyan is accompanied by another phenomenon common to the world’s most expansive landscapes. The ground seems nearer to the sky; and the two of them together — the whole wide world — contrive to make the human observer seem mouse-small in the face of its sheer grandeur. In this landscape, it can be difficult to fully appreciate what is quite likely …

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2008 Bodegas Colomé Estate Malbec, Salta, Argentina

Once upon a time, I went to Argentina looking for the good wine. Frankly I couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about when it came to Malbec. Most of the ones I had tasted here in the US were mediocre. Only a select few rose to the level of excellent, and none to the level of amazing. Yet there was a long stream of proclamations from various people (you know, the ones whose opinions “count” when it comes to such things) that Argentinean Malbec was the next greatest thing. Scratching my head, I traipsed off to Argentina looking for the promised land. Or promised bottle, as the case may be. And I found it. We had a lot of great Malbec while we were there, and really got a chance to appreciate the Argentinean skill at high altitude viticulture. There was one wine region that we didn’t visit however, and we’ve been kicking ourselves ever since, as we’ve had several stunning wines from the province of Salta. Tucked up in the northeast corner of Argentina, Salta is a wine region quite unlike any other. Its vineyards may very well be the highest altitude vineyards in the world, and its high-desert climate offers some of the greatest diurnal shifts…

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How opt in email lists (and manners) work

So we have a Feedblitz account (see the left-hand side of our blog above the Carolyn’s Kitchen ad) where you can sign up for emails featuring our blog posts, which many of you have done (thank you!), and sometimes people sign up and then can’t figure out how to unsubscribe. Perfectly understandable. What’s not understandable or acceptable is then sending us 14 irate emails using profanity to berate us for not magically reading your mind and taking you off a list you signed up for . That is not how the Internet works. It’s an opt in mailing list meaning you signed up for it all by yourself. At the bottom of Feedblitz emails it says Click here to safely unsubscribe now from “Cupcakes Take The Cake” or change your subscription or subscribe. So literally all you have to do is click on that “Click here” if you want to unsubscribe. Like magic. So simple. Much simpler than forwarding 14 emails to us at 7:23 am. Trust me. On a personal note, I love this blog. I’ve been doing it for such a long time and it’s become something I think about and work on every single day, even when I have a day “off” from, well, life…

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Date This Vegan #1: Randy from Williamsburg!

[Randy! Randy! Randy!] ” Date This Vegan ” is a regular SuperVegan column in which we feature a reader in the New York metro area who is not only hot and smart, but also VEGAN and looking for love. Meet Randy. He’s a 35-year-old, Brooklyn-based (Williamsburg, if you must know) writer who is letting us post his handsome face on the internet so he can meet vegan women. Here’s Randy’s totally unbiased self-assessment: “I just crossed the threshold of 25 years as a vegetarian. I went vegan six years later. The things that are most important to me: food, friends, music, my cat (well, most cats, really), and meaningful conversation. Cooking is my meditative act. Others tell me that I am the most cynical and/or sarcastic person they have ever met. I feel this just means they need to get out more. I grew up in Texas, but please do not hold this against me. I read like a banshee and enjoy film and comics. I am far more introverted than extroverted and have a gimp left leg that makes me look a bit like John Cleese and his silly walk as I meander down the street…

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Three of My Favorite Things

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