It’s the second day of the festival, but it’s my fourth day in Aspen(http://www.foodandwine.com/). Last night was the Texas Outlaw Party. It was raucous Texan style event…held ironically in a Japanese restaurant. I’d love to show you pictures to prove that I was there, but in some sort of wine induced delirium, my camera went missing (OK, a Bordeaux delirium if you must know – Washington’s Bordeaux Style Reds (http://www.washingtonwine.org/).  –This afternoon session @ Little Nell’s tent, had all of maybe 10 people. A make shift renegade posse forms, in the form of a wine decanter to make sure none of these beautiful Washington state wines went to waste!

I’m   sure the camera was “stolen” though, as there’s no possible way I could have lost anything during a wine delirium.

So, Didi 2.0, social median, was no longer fully able to document the rest of the festival. WAH, WAH.

Despite this set back, I made a bold move. With fierce blogger determination, I selected Danny Meyer’s, Terroir: a Taste of Place, as my first seminar of the day. We are talking 10 am here. TEN A.M does not seem like the time for an esoteric wine discussion.

Although I was foggy from last night, I really wanted to get to the bottom of this “terroir” bull roar. It’s all I hear about nowadays. Yes, I know what the word means but, I’ve yet to really taste this “sense of place, where the grape comes from.”

Terroir is far beyond my junior varsity palette…for now.

To illustrate how Terroir affects the taste of a wine, Meyers and his partner Mark Tarlov, of Evening Land Vineyards Continue Reading »

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