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A nice glass of Gallo

3/23/09 10:08am by Nancyy
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According to author Willie Gluckstern in The Wine Avenger -- a good book by the way, especially for the novice -- brothers Ernest and Julio Gallo really got underway in the wine business by making and marketing inexpensive, sweet, high-alcohol wine to lower-income urban neighborhoods. One of their most popular products was Thunderbird, a wine that sold via the commercial jingle, "What's the word?  Read more >

Wine in the coming Ice Age

2/5/09 8:12pm by Nancyy
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When I was growing up -- think the Nixon-Ford-Carter-Reagan years -- I seem to remember that the Russian newspaper Pravda was understood to be a laughing stock. Of course, it was a mouthpiece of the Soviet state, and so its articles were only quoted in the American press as examples of official Soviet whitewashing of domestic problems, or conversely of the trumpeting of faux Soviet triumphs in this international sphere or that.  Read more >

The noble grapes: chardonnay

12/16/08 9:21am by Nancyy
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It's fun to come across a wine book from thirty or forty years ago and find that it now contains just slightly outdated information. The grapes don't change -- much, although vitis vinifera in general is said to be quite prone to sudden sports and mutations (Karen MacNeil in The Wine Bible) -- and winemaking is still a matter of sun and rain, ripening, fermentation, and waiting. What changes, I suppose, is fashion and business trends, in wine as in anything else.  Read more >

Learning champagne: sweet and dry

12/16/08 8:53am by Nancyy
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It took a while for me to understand the difference in taste between "sweet" and "dry" wines. My first and I hope sensible question was, how can a liquid be dry?  Read more >

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Full Name
Nancy Yos
Member Since
October 2008
About Me: 

...and you'll find there are actually <i>two</i> Nancy Yos-es (Yos-i?). Kind of odd. I'm not the one who writes feminist things for the Oprah website, bless her heart.

If you keep Googling, you'll find me in a few back issues of <i>Commentary, First Things,</i> and <i>American Heritage,</i> and in <i>The Times of Northwest Indiana, The Shopper, The Southtown Star,</i> and in a lovely, now-defunct magazine called <i>Violet,</i> which used to be run by jazz musician Charles Mingus' daughter Keki.

Then mom said I should try blogging. I said okay. I have five. Sometimes I cross-post to Open Salon or to the BlogHer hosting network, if you really feel like hunting. And oh, in between times, I got a job at a (now defunct) wine shop. That was fun.

And, like geeky Miles in <i>Sideways,</i> I find lately I'm really getting into rieslings.

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