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From Robert Lawrence Balzer
#1617 Learning to enjoy wines in the Kingdom of
Taste
Monday March 21st
2005
This is Robert
Lawrence Balzer with The Word on Wine. A front
page story in last Wednesday's Los Angeles
Times FOOD section, journalist David Shaw
wrote a stimulating story on "MATTERS OF
TASTE...What's behind the buzz", inspired by
a prize winning film at the recent Cannes Film
Festival, called "Mondovino" loosely
translated as the "world of wine." I first
met David Shaw when he was in his early
twenties, just beginning to encounter the world
of wine. Both of us believe strongly in
the "the world of wine" as a place for fun,
plus nourishment, and intellectual
stimulus by the creative winemakers in all
the grape-growing regions of the world. As
he writes in the Times article, "Wine is
one product on Earth that is both agriculture
and high culture." He doesn't recommend
this film by Director Jonathan Nossiter,
43, and concludes his commentary by suggesting
it will appeal only to non-wine folks.
Another true apostle of really good wines is
Anthony Dias Blue of Bon Appetit Magazine
whose good taste and judgment concerning
wines and foods guides that splendid magazine's
fine commentaries in this field. I am
privileged to be among the journalists he has
appointed to their "Tasting Panel."
Tomorrow I'll be reporting on their most recent
NEW RELEASEs TASTING...sharing the highlights,
to me, of that event. This is Robert
Lawrence Balzer with the Word on Wine.
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