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Times: 8pm
Venue: The Colonial Theatre
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Named one of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time, Jim Breuer is one of the most recognizable comedians in the business, known for his charismatic stage antics, dead-on impressions and family-friendly stand-up. Breuer's big break came in 1995 when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, where he quickly became a fan-favorite for his original character "Goat Boy" and his dead-on impressions of actor Joe Pesci. Following his success on SNL Breuer starred alongside Dave Chappelle in the cult favorite film Half Baked. Breuer can be heard on his weekly Sirius/XM Radio show "Fridays with Breuer," featuring guests such as Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock and Jeff Foxworthy.
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Terrapin The Iron Tankard - Terrapin Beer Company
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Ratings: 62 | Reviews: 41 | Display Reviews Only:
4.28/5 rDev +10%
22oz bottle shared by stopbarking at the June BA tasting in Austin.
Pours with a rustic, amber body that shows a deep haze and a retained, sawdust-colored head. Nice lacing left behind on the tasting glass. The aroma is largely muted for the style, but has a subtle nuttiness with sweet fruits in the background, namely apricot, cherry, and fig.
The flavor is also slightly sweet from toffee & caramel malts. Still a bit green with respect to the hop level, but Iron Tankard is still drinking excellently this early in its inception. A nutty finish with peppery booze seals the deal. Great carbonation, very tight and creamy which complements the medium-thick body well. Not overly heavy or sticky, either. All in all, a nice special release from Terrapin, and one I might just have to trade for to see how it ages.
06-07-2010 00:38:50 | More by wagenvolks
3.98/5 rDev +2.3%
22ox bottle poured into a chalice. I like Old Ales, and I like beers for a cause. Nice to see Terapin take on both. Pours brown with a fair head that fades to a thin ring. Smells strongly of bubblegum and with some citrusy hops. More bubblegum in the taste, as well as some tangy malt and fairly mellow citrusy hops. A pretty nice package. Smooth and well integrated, and a nice effort overall.
05-10-2010 00:43:54 | More by Georgiabeer
4.13/5 rDev +6.2%
The beer was brewed to raise money for the Georgia Theatre restoration project, and came in a nice box containing the information about the fundraiser. Inside the box was a little pamphlet, and a 22 oz. hand numbered bomber (1089/4884) of this beer. The beer came out brown, and formed a two finger thick head in the tulip glass. The smell was sweet and spicy, and had a lot of banana, cherry, ginger, and orange peel in it. The taste was a lot similar to wheatwine with lots of banana, and some notes of clove. The beer was quite sweet and silky thick on the palette and exhibited a warm and soothing finish. I usually prefer my stock ales with more hops than this beer had, but otherwise it was a pleasing experience.
04-26-2010 03:55:48 | More by rajendra82
3.98/5 rDev +2.3%
Poured into my DFH Signature glass.
A: Pours a deep nutty brown color. It is fairly hazy with about a finger and a half of off white head resting on top. After it receded some nice lacing continues to linger on the top.
S: The main thing noticed in the aroma is dark fruits. Prune and raisin are the predominate smells. There are some slight sugary undertones as well.
T: There are many different subtle tastes in this beer. I am picking up some sweet fruit flavors along with some slight caramel flavors. The alcohol is masked well, but is slightly noticeable on the finish. The mouthfeel is a little thinner than I was expecting for a higher gravity beer.
Overall this is a good beer. It is nice to drink something from Terrapin that deviates significantly from their regular line up. It is also nice to know that drinking this beer will help the rebuilding of the Georgia Theatre.
04-26-2010 02:12:14 | More by ugaterrapin
3.63/5 rDev -6.7%
Anything to get the GA theatre back on it's feet.
A- Dark amber rose coloring. Quickly dissipating head.
S- Dark fruit (raisins), brown sugar and molasses, hints of pear or apple as well. Sugar sweetness at the end of the nose.
T- It's a bit underwhelming, and being honest I expected more from the nose as well. It's got the bready malt with hints of spice and nutmeg.Brown sugary sweetness with a bit of tannin in the aftertaste.
M- Is a bit thin in my opinion, carbonation is low, but for the style that's not a bad thing either. Others have commented about a watered-down feel and I have to agree as well.
D- For a bomber of old ale it's easily drinkable and overall it is an enjoyable beer to drink. I would buy more if it was priced a bit lower. I am a diehard Terrapin supporter but lately I keep expecting more.
04-25-2010 02:54:34 | More by Rbald42
3.88/5 rDev -0.3%
22oz bottle 1778/4884 poured into a snifter.
Pours a light mahogany that shots deep, slightly hazy amber in the light. There's a smallish beige head that recedes to a small collar with some legs along the sides.
The aroma is very sweet with lots of sugar-coated dark fruits, caramel and even hints of chocolate. Some booze and spices leave the nostrils burning a bit after each whiff. Really nice nose.
The taste isn't quite as impressive as the nose. It's got a bit of a watered down taste with booze-soaked fruits and caramel and bready malts dominating. Very sweet and sticky with a slight alcohol burn in the finish.
The mouthfeel is slick and very sweet with very low carbonation and maybe a tad on the thin side overall honestly.
Overall, another solid beer from Terrapin. It's a big sweet, malty old ale with a bit of spice and lots of fruit. Nothing groundbreaking but still very tasty.
04-21-2010 02:14:54 | More by gford217
4.43/5 rDev +13.9%
On Cask at Terrapin Brewery for their 8th Anniversary.
Pour - Deep Red but with no head -(Cask)
Aroma - Bananas and Fig
Taste - Caramel, Molasses and Hops - No really booze taste that you get with most Old Ales.
A lot more Drinkable than I thought going into it. - Bought a few bottles that I will pop soon and compare - Glad I got to try this on Cask - I missed the one at Manuels -
04-20-2010 02:49:14 | More by dmunroe
3.9/5 rDev +0.3%
22oz bottle. Pours copper/brown, a lot of red under the light, with a small beige head that reduces to a whispy covering and foamy ring, leaves some spots of lacing.
Aroma is heavy on the alcohol, with raisins, figs, dark fruits, bread & toast, caramel, brown sugar, and some spice.
Flavor is very malty, brown sugar, molasses, caramel, toast, spice and some alcohol.
Mouthfeel is full, slick, somewhat prickly carbonation.
Even being way too young, this is quite good, gonna have to pick up at least one more to cellar.
04-18-2010 03:56:37 | More by elgiacomo
3.4/5 rDev -12.6%
On cask at Terrapin's 8th Anniversary
Pours a dark greyish brown with a dense head. Smells of sweet malts and dark fruits esters. Taste is sweet and spicy, but not deep enough for an old ale. Very nice malt bill, I'm looking forward to aging it for a few years to see if it grows a little in complexity. The mouth is too thin for the style, I need my old ales to be viscous. The thin body and sweet flavor is a bad combo for drinkability. I have three in the cellar, let's hope time is good to them.
04-18-2010 03:21:19 | More by mondegreen
4.6/5 rDev +18.3%
Intriguing notes of raisin, caramel and brown sugar sweetness melodically fill the nose preparing you for what is to come in the taste. The taste follows suit, as expected from the aromas in a delicious interpretation of an old ale from Spike. What wasn't expected was how amazingly well the abv is hidden in this beer. Really amazing on such a young, old ale. Very impressive. Terrapin, please reprise this as a full time brew, please.
04-17-2010 02:51:20 | More by KickbacksSteve
4.13/5 rDev +6.2%
A: Amber red with little to no head
S: everything i would expect from the style. raisin sweetness with some molasses with a note of alcohol. smells "young"
T: lots of nice malty sweet dark flavors. mostly raisiny but like the smell it has that undeveloped flavor that will only come with time. lots of potential that im excited about. caramel raisin little molasses
M: coats my mouth with sweetness but lacking a little carbonation to stimulate the palate
D: I can drink this super easy. It doesn't fell like a 9.4% beer thats for sure. I wish it had more body but it still has promising flavor for years to come.
04-13-2010 05:50:26 | More by chefmikeanderson
4.15/5 rDev +6.7%
Cask at Manuel's in Atlanta - this is apparently the only cask of this beer, glad I could try it. Here's a description of the beer from Terrapin:
From Spike: Iron Tankard "Old Stock Ale" is the first of four beers in Terrapin's Georgia Theatre Sessions. It is brewed with a generous portion of crystal malts for a full body and is lightly hopped. This malt forward beer has flavors of dark dried fruit, mellow alcoholic warmth and is unfiltered for your listening pleasure.
Hops: Goldings
Malt: 2-row pale, Munich II, Crystal 65, Crystal 85, Special B
Pours an opaque ruddy brown color with a one-finger tan head. The head recedes into a thin layer on top leaving solid lacing.
Smells of robust caramel malts with just a hint of toastiness. Mild amounts of green apple and milder amounts of lighter fruits waft out from time to time along with good amounts of spicy hop aromas.
Tastes similar to how it smells. Grainy caramel malt flavors with the trademark crispness found in old ales kick things off. Shortly thereafter spicy hop flavors enter into things, fading into the background midway through the sip to allow indistinct light fruit flavors to show through. The spicy hop flavors reassert themselves and carry through to a mildly bitter ending.
Mouthfeel is very good. It's got a smooth thickness with grainy carbonation.
Drinkability is also very good. I finished my glass quickly and could easily have a few more.
Overall I thought this was one of the more drinkable Old Ales I remember having - the flavors all worked well together. Worth a shot.
04-08-2010 02:58:27 | More by glid02
Terrapin The Iron Tankard from Terrapin Beer Company
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ANZ in hunt for mid-tier AFSPUBLISHED: 19 Aug 2010 00:11:00 | UPDATED: 19 Aug 2010 06:09:04PUBLISHED: 19 Aug 2010 PRINT EDITION: 19 Aug 2010
ANZ is chasing its rivals in wealth management. Photo: Jessica Shapiro
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Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's newly rebranded wealth management business OnePath, formerly known as ING Australia, is expected to sign a deal to acquire mid-tier financial planning dealer group Australian Financial Services (AFS) as soon as tomorrow.
AFS Group, which has about 211 financial planners and $6.5 billion in funds under advice, is one of the largest supporters of OnePath's investment platform, Oasis Asset Management.
AFS has more than $1.5 billion in funds under administration on Oasis. The group also owns a significant stake in the Salisbury Group, which has a further 63 financial planners and $1 billion under advice.
The move on AFS is an attempt by ANZ to make up lost ground in wealth management from rivals such as National Australia Bank and AMP, which have bid for AXA Asia Pacific Holdings to bolster their share of the Australian market.
Growth through acquisition has been the primary distribution strategy of the major wealth management players, being the big four banks, AMP and AXA APH.
ANZ's Australia CEO, Phil Chronican, told TheAustralian Financial Review earlier this month that some of his big four rivals had identified the potential in wealth management earlier and moved faster into the sector.
"I cannot change the course of history that got us here," he said. "We are moving in a concerted way to get our strategies in place."
Details of the deal are subject to a confidentially agreement, but AFS is not dissimilar to Financial Services Partners (FSP), the medium-sized dealer group OnePath paid more than $50 million for in December 2007.
FSP has 200 financial planners and around $4.6 billion in funds under advice. However, at the time of purchase, FSP primarily supported the Commonwealth Bank/Colonial First State's FirstWrap platform (formerly Avanteos).
In 2008, FSP decided against renewing its contract with Colonial First State after a strategic review, and signed a 7 ½ year deal to use Oasis to administer its superannuation and investment products.
AFS chief executive Peter Daly and OnePath's general manager of aligned distribution, Charles Smith, were both unavailable for comment.
ANZ/OnePath has been one of the most aggressive buyers of distribution and advice businesses in the past four years. In April, OnePath took a 20 per cent stake in Fortnum Financial Group, the new advice business established by former CEO of Axa's Genesys Wealth Advisers Ray Miles.
According to the latest report by Roy Morgan Research, the six largest groups place around 73 per cent of their clients' superannuation money into products offered by their institutional parent.
The report, titled Superannuation and Wealth Management in Australia, found that AMP-aligned advisers direct the largest percentage of clients' money, 82 per cent, to in-house products, followed by AXA, 75 per cent, and Commonwealth Bank/Colonial First State, 73 per cent. It also said consumers still did not know if their planners were aligned to an institution or licensed through an independent firm.
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These are the 7 Things I'm Obsessed with Lately:
1. Beauty: {NARS Heatwave Semi-Matte Lipstick}
Coral (particularly a red hued coral) has been a staple lip color for me in the last few years, and is slowly moving to the classic category. . .
This ain't your grandma's coral (though I do have a color that reminds me of my grandma's coral lipstick :)), it has an orange red tint that is so hot right now. .ahem (heatwave):
2. Fashion: {Plain White Tee} but the right Tee
Recently, I found the perfect Plain White Tee at a boutique down the street to replace a beloved one which was getting holier than swiss cheese. It's v-neck, loose and uber soft! it's the simplest wardrobe staple, which makes it the best sometimes. Dress it up for day-to-night and wear it as a weekend staple with jeans.
The other day I paired it with some leather shorts AKA lorts (hey, why not?!) and a blazer for a casual yet polished work outfit (Ok my work is probably more relaxed than yours). I could throw on some heels and it would work for a night on the town, too.
3. Food: {Radishes}
Don't laugh, I didn't say it wasn't an eclectic list! But seriously, these crunchy little red nuggets are still in season and have been making an appearance in my lunch, snacks and everything in between lately. I wouldn't normally buy them, but they came in my Farm Fresh to You delivery about a month ago but have been hooked ever since.
My favorite way to eat them as of late is on a toasted slice of sprouted grain bread, avocado spread on top, then thinly sliced radishes, a little salt, pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice. . . delish! I've also been dipping them into homemade chickpea hummus smashed with avocado.
4. Drink: {Sparkling Rosé}
This certainly makes the classic list as well, however, lately I've had a particular obsession with it. Crisp and bubbly and just a bit sweet. . . it's the perfect summer wine! Also, it's a pretty color which always adds to the appeal for me!
Here we are drinking it at Bolina's Beach a few weeks ago. We found an excellent bottle at Trader Joe's of course for under $10: Incanto Rosé Frizzante, highly recommend!
5. Travel & Culture: {Lists} Bucket in particular. . .
French hubby and I definitely consider ourselves travel junkies, whether it be across the globe, or an hour-away road trip. We live in the perfect place to explore, in fact, there's so much to do in the Bay Area we had to have some kind of list. My cute sister in law, from the blog Blue Eyed Life, found this awesome 'Bay Area Bucket List' that we've printed out and are aiming to check one thing off per weekend. We've also taken some of the items off and added a few as well. I've also made a list of all the amazing (cheap, fancy and everything in between) restaurants that we like to try one per week, usually Friday nights.
Today we went to Point Reyes & checked that off the list! A few pics from this beautiful place, just an hour away from the city:
6.Gardens: {San Francisco Flora & Fauna}
My friends who are long-time SF residents laugh because when we go on walks in the city, I tend to stop at every flowering tree, rose bush or interesting plant and smell, touch and try and identify it! I can't get enough of all the beautiful and interesting plants and flowers we're lucky enough to be surrounded by. I'm still in awe everyday that I live in such a beautiful place. . . it's the little thing sometimes! Unrelated yet related, I recently purchased a Fiddle Leaf Fig plant for our house, and though not native to SF, I thought I'd show a pic of it as well since I'm obsessed with it (and treat it like a child. . it needs TLC!) too!
7. Decor: {Balancing Feminine & Masculine}
French hubby has a real opinion on décor, which sounds great right? Sometimes. . . though we have similar taste, we definitely have our differing opinions, especially if something is too girly or too manly. Of course, as with a relationship, you have to compromise, and for me it means balancing the feminine and masculine in a home. We've got a ways to go in our new place since I think the Mission style with the dark wood is naturally masculine, but we'll get there! I have my eye on some nice sand colored wing back chairs to feminize the room a bit as well as these really cool mirrors for the archways. Also, fresh flowers always add a touch of femininity to any room. Here's a look at our place currently:
How do you balance the décor in your home? Or does your Significant Other let you take reigns on decorating? Sometimes I wish my hubby didn't care so much. . but I do love a good challenge.
What are you obsessed with lately?
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The fire, which was reported at approximately 8 a.m., started in the home's boiler and spread into the basement area, Fitzpatrick said.
An elderly couple and their middle aged son were reportedly in the home at the time. No one was hurt and the damage was limited to the basement.


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Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced today that The Trust for Public Land,a leading national nonprofit land conservation organization, has acquired and received permit approval from the City of Boston to create the first urban farm in Boston allowed under the City's new "Article 89" farming rules.
One thousand acres at stake. Voters must approve borrowing 3 million dollars.
Voters came out in droves for Tuesday's $3 million appropriation referendum to purchase 930 acres of the long-embattled 1,000 acre Preserve property. In all, 2244 votes were cast, including 98 absentee ballots. Town officials agreed that it was likely a record turnout for a single issue referendum in Old Saybrook.
On June 10, hundreds of people came out for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate a new "greened" schoolyard at William Dick Elementary School.
Today The Trust for Public Land unveiled the findings of a new report entitled New Hampshire's Return on Investment in Land Conservation. The report quantitatively demonstrates that state investment in land conservation has measurable economic value. Conserved lands provide natural goods and services such as water quality protection, wildlife habitat and air pollution removal - all important to New Hampshire's strong economy and jobs.
On a warm summer morning, I stood on the old runway and tried to decipher the number or letter denoted by broken paint chips under a jungle of weeds. It's the only tangible evidence of the Madison airport where hundreds of pilots learned to fly. The 42-acre site was saved from development four years ago by The Trust For Public Land and the Town of Madison.
The Trust for Public Land, the only national conservation organization dedicated to creating parks and protecting land for people, today announced the launch of #OurLand , an outreach campaign designed to spur a movement to inspire people to share why nature matters to them.
The overgrown Coogan Farm dates to the 17th century and is a keystone parcel between Mystic Aquarium, Mystic Seaport and the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center property once eyed for development, but some locals had a different idea.
The Trust for Public Land has announced the final land acquisition for The 606 park and trail system on Chicago's northwest side, adding a new access park adjacent to the western trailhead. The non-profit, which serves as project manager on behalf of the Chicago Park District, coordinating fundraising, community engagement, land acquisition and park development, has entered into $2.975 million agreement to acquire the Magid Glove factory at 1800 N. Ridgeway Avenue.
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Johnny Manziel will officially announce that he his entering the NFL Draft sometime before the NCAA deadline of January 15th. CBSSports.com is reporting that Manziel has selected his agency to represent him. By hiring an agent Manziel will no longer be able to participate in NCAA Football at Texas A&M.
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UPDATE: Fraud? Back at ya Sink, Scott says in new adby Dara Kam | October 5th, 2010
UPDATE: Alex Sink's campaign spokeswoman Kyra Jennings calls Scott's ad a lie.
"This is just one more deceptive ad from Rick Scott. The facts are that this is a company Alex Sink flat-out did not run and even the lawyer from the suit mentioned in Scott's ad said today that Alex Sink was not involved in any way. But obviously Rick Scott has a very hard time telling the truth and can't be trusted," Jennings said in an e-mail.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott released a new attack ad today slamming Democrat opponent Alex Sink for $6.75 million in fines her former bank was forced to pay the federal government for selling risky investments, mostly to seniors.
NationsBank and its securities division was also forced to repay $30 million to customers duped into buying the investments. Sink was head of NationsBank's Florida operations.
Scott's ad comes after Sink, the state's chief financial officer, and Democrats have run ads for weeks raising questions about Scott's role in $1.7 billion fines levied by the federal government against his hospital chain for fraud.
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Log movie theatre a feature attraction
Owners went digital at great cost rather than close their showpiece
WASAGAMING -- The exterior isn't much.
The Park Theatre is a log building, but the exterior is coated with a thick, chocolate-brown stain, more like a paint. It provides protection from the elements but mutes the magnificence of what's inside.
What's inside is all massive, gleaming, clear-varnished log work. It's like stepping into the old Minaki Lodge. Every slice made by drawknives to remove the rough fir bark seems more like a brush stroke. It's as spacious as an indoor pool, with its high-vaulted cathedral ceiling. Scandinavian log rollers were brought in to perform the exquisite hand-hewn log work. The theatre was built in 1936-37.
"We have people come in and say they don't even need to see a show. They just want to sit and look at the beautiful building," said Bev Gowler, who has owned the theatre along with husband Jim since 1976.
Many rural theatres face an uncertain future, with movie studios getting out of film and going completely digital by 2013. (Some industry people say this is not entirely accurate -- you might still be able to get film, but it will be cost-prohibitive.) Many small theatres can't justify the $60,000-$80,000 cost of converting to digital equipment.
Will Riding Mountain National Park's famous log theatre follow many rural theatres and close by year's end?
The Gowlers gave their answer June 22 when they premièred their brand-new $80,000 Barco digital projector with Dolby Surround Sound. Go big or go home. The Park Theatre opened its summer season with the double bill, Madagascar 3 and The Hunger Games.
"Congratulations!" one woman said to Jim in the lobby, eyeing him up as if he'd grown a foot since she last saw him.
Excitement was in the air at the première. One little girl ran in ahead of her parents and started to clap, not at the digital projector or stately log edifice, but at the giant popcorn popper. That popper, Jim explained, cost $10,000 but has paid for itself many times over.
Closing wasn't an option, said Bev. "There was no decision. It was either go digital or close."
The cost won't be paid off in the couple's lifetime, but they hope their family keeps the theatre going. The couple also owns the Spinning Wheel Gift Shop in the north annex. Son Trevor owns the TR McKoys (short for The Real McKoys) restaurant in the south annex.
"In order to pay for the building, we needed income from both sides," Bev said.
Another son, Scott, manages Aspen Ridge Cabins and its 27 rental units.
"It takes a family," Bev said. "They've all been brought up in this theatre."
Everyone pitches in at some time. Granddaughter Lauren has been running the projector since she was 13. She's 17 now, ran the new digital projector on opening night and will run it most nights this summer. She also helps out at the concession stand.
Jim is originally from Boissevain. As a kid, he spent every summer at Clear Lake, staying with his grandparents. When he turned 18, his parents bought a cottage at Killarney Lake, but it was too late. His heart was in Riding Mountain park. That's how he and Bev came to buy the Spinning Wheel Gift Shop. His primary income is from his sales company, Gowler Agencies.
The Park Theatre runs two shows a night and averages about 300 patrons a night. Some nights, the theatre is full. A lot depends on the weather.
Another thing about the Park Theatre is its size. It's cavernous. You wouldn't believe it from its storefront. It has 490 seats, the largest log theatre in North America. The upholstery was replaced in the 1950s with thick, sofa-like cushions. The original lights are styled as old-fashioned kerosene lanterns fixed to the walls with cast-iron mountings.
Considering its age, you might think there are constant repairs, but not so. "We stain the outside about every two years. Inside, we barely touch it at all," Jim said.
And the show always goes on, even in a power outage, the Gowlers said.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 9, 2012 A5
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The tricky matter of predicting ageability
On New Year's Eve I opened a bottle I'd had in my little wine storage unit for some years years: Anthill 2005 Demuth Vineyard Pinot Noir, from the Anderson Valley.
I studied the wine, in a Riedel glass, as I walked Gus, on a mild, early winter night in Oakland. It was all right–dry, tart and with some good cherry and cranberry fruit. But it was evident that there were problems, chief among which was a pruny or raisiny finish, along with accompanying heat.
The wine, in short, had not aged well.
I went to Wine Enthusiast's database and looked up my original review, from July, 2007. I gave the wine 90 points and described it this way: "There are suggestions of wintergreen mint and tart rhubarb, but the cherries save the day, giving enough richness to make the wine interesting. Despite the high acidity and dryness, I don't think it's an ager, but it's a beautifully complex, food-friendly Pinot."
It's always gratifying to see that I made a good call (although I can already hear some sourpusses whining that I'm promoting myself). I'll be the first to concede that I don't always get things right, especially in the matter of predicting ageabiity. So how do I come up with ageability estimates?
First of all, you can age any wine you want. All that means is putting the bottle someplace for as many years as you want. (Obviously, that place should have proper storage conditions: still, cool and dark, and a little moist.) Most wines, probably 99.9% of them, will not benefit at all from aging; they're meant to drink as soon as you purchase them.
What of that other .01%? They will age–but what does this mean? We've all tasted older Burgundies, Bordeaux, Barolos, Champagnes and the like, and so we know what they can do. In my experience, aging California wine is considerably "iffier." To take, as examples, the best Cabernets, in the ideal situation they lose their fresh, primary fruit, starting at about eight years, and then begin to dry out, showing "secondary" fruit character and bottle "bouquet." As the tannins precipitate out, the wine becomes clearer, more translucent, silkier in body (which is perhaps the best thing about aging it).
But aged wine is an acquired taste. I try to keep that in mind when I review a wine. If it's superbly balanced, rich and tannic (we're mainly talking reds here), it's much more likely to age well than a wine that has the slightest imperfection, because that imperfection will only grow increasingly obvious with bottle age. In the case of the Anthill 2005 Demuth, if I recall correctly, my impression that "it's not an ager" was due to certain imperfections, mainly a touch of raisining in the finish. It does take an experienced palate to discern those slight irregularities that prohibit the wine from aging well. I'm not saying I have a great palate, but it's an adequate one, and you do learn a few things when you've tasted as many wines as I have for so long.
I'd love to have the time and opportunity to taste more old California wine, to see how my predictions panned out. Since we're on the subject of 2005 red wines, here are some from that vintage that I tasted when they were first released, and to which I gave a "Cellar Selection" designation, meaning that I recommended the wine be aged. I haven't had any of these wines since, and, since they're now a little more than eight years old, all should be at that exciting, interesting transition point of losing primary fruit and picking up secondary notes. If any of the proprietors wishes to afford me the pleasure of sending me a bottle, I promise to share the results here in the blog–for better or worse.
Trefethen 2005 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
Colgin 2005 IX Estate
Rubicon 2005
Flora Springs 2005 Rennie Reserve
Goldschmidt 2005 Game Ranch Single Vineyard Selection Cabernet Sauvignon
Nickel & Nickel 2005 John C. Sullenger Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Far Niente 2005 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Kendall-Jackson 2005 Highlands Estate Napa Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
Hanzell 2005 Chardonnay
Chardonnay? Yes, every once in a while a California Chardonnay is worth aging. Which brings up an interesting point. How do I know Hanzell Chardonnay is ageable? Because I've had old ones, up to 20 years in age, and they can be remarkable. Does that knowledge influence my appraisal of the wine? Absolutely. Why would it not? On the other hand, I've also given Cellar Selection designations to Chardonnays that I've never had the opportunity to taste when they'd been properly aged: Joseph Phelps 2011 Freestone Chardonnay, for example. While I've only had that wine as a new release, I'd bet my bottom dollar it's good for at least eight years–and I wouldn't mind trying it in 2023, when it will be 12 years old. And then, there's Hartford Court 2005 Stone Côte Vineyard Chardonay. That wine is now eight years old; I sure would like to see if my Cellar Selection call was right on, or an unmitigated disaster.
Childhood fantasy as the basis of wine writing
I heard Roger Rosenblatt, the writer, on NPR yesterday, being interviewed about his new memoir, The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood.
(I haven't read it, but plan to.) In the interview, Rosenblatt described how he used to pretend to be a detective when growing up in Manhattan's Grammercy Park neighborhood, and how that sense of imagining later helped inform his writing.
When I was a boy, growing up in the borough of The Bronx, just north of Manhattan, I too used to play in the park, across the street from our apartment building, and would pretend to be an archeologist. I'd find scraps of discarded materials–the top of a cola bottle, a rusty nail, a crumpled piece of cardboard–and pretend that they were treasures I'd unearthed on an archeological scavenge or dig. I would make up, spontaneously and in the greatest detail, complete histories of those artifacts: who had owned them, how old they were, what they were used for. It was all silly, harmless pretending, but, looking back now, I can see that I was developing the intellectual tools (curiosity, improvisation, the elaborate construction of a narrative) that were later to prove so useful in my own career as a writer.
You might think that wine writing has nothing to do with imagination, but you'd be wrong. At first glance, talking about wine seems to have nothing to do with anything but facts: where was it grown? What is the alcohol? What kinds of oak was it aged in? What are the specific flavors? But of course, such a recitation of facts would give nothing of value to consumers, who want to know: What do you think about the wine?
This is where imagination comes in. When I used to pick up a rusty piece of metal in the park, that was all it was: a rusty piece of metal. Garbage, most people would say. And in fact, if you simply looked at it as a rusty piece of metal, that's all it was. It took imagination to see it as something left over from the Stone Age, a scraping tool to carve out a lump of stone formed into the shape of a fertility goddess. Yet that's how my mind worked.
It's pretty much the same with a glass of wine. At the most fundamental level, it is what it is. Even the greatest wine doesn't blow your mind if you don't know what it is. Wine is just fermented grape juice, sometimes elaborated with winemaker bells and whistles such as malolactic fermentation, lees aging and barrel fermentation and/or aging. There's not much more going on, whether it's Two Buck Chuck or Petrus. What you find in it depends in large part on what you bring to the experience: your expectations and imagination.
When I was a young druggie [yes, let's get that out], Dr. Timothy Leary used to say that the acid experience depended on the combination of set and setting. "Set" was the underlying psychology you brought. "Setting" was your immediate environment. "Set" was unchanging: you are what you are. "Setting" varied enormously and could be the determining factor in whether you had a good trip or a bad one.
What all this has to do with imagination is that the judgment of a particular wine has to do with subjective factors. I believe that there is no "external reality" to a wine. The ultimate judgment is dependent on the setting: what do you know about it? How are you experiencing it–at the winery, tasted openly with the winemaker? Blind, in a paper bag among a flight? When you taste blind, you are in the same boat as an archeologist who comes across an artifact in a dig. What is it? You know very little, but your mind desperately tries to put the pieces together. And so you come to a conclusion: it's early period Egypt, or pre-Columbian Native American, or a Neanderthal tool. You make inferences based on your knowledge, and your excitement level rises or falls with your conclusions. If you have no knowledge, you can make no inferences. You simply like the wine or you don't, which is useless from the point of view of helping others understand it. If you understand a great deal about wine, you can develop a historical narrative that others will find useful and compelling. But to do so requires imagination. The wine writer's seeds are found in his or her childhood fantasies.
That pesky quality-price ratio: QPR reconsidered
I suppose I can see the logic (if that's the right word) of charging many hundreds of dollars for a wine of known provenance (Lafite, for instance). But when a new brand, right out of the gate, releases itself at triple-digit prices, some sense of justice in me is aroused to the point of disgust.
I wrote "releases itself" but that is, of course, an intransitive verb structure, the kind we writers recoil from, because nothing in this world occurs intransitively. So let me rephrase it: When a new brand is released by its owners at triple-digit prices, something in me is disgusted.
I could choose from among any number of Napa Valley wines to illustrate my point, but since I have to live, and get along, with these people, it's probably a better idea for me to turn abroad. To Australia, in this case, where the new Thousand Candles winery has released a Pinot Noir and a Shiraz, both at the price of $110 U.S.
The winemaker, William Downie, told Bloomberg News' Elin McCoy about "the surprising backstory" (McCoy's words) concerning the wines' "true expression of the site" (we've heard that before). "I believe a great wine tells one story: Who am I?" Downie said. (Never mind that Thousand Candles' owner is anonymous, and Downie didn't disclose his/her identity; what kind of "story-telling" is that?)
Downie did admit to McCoy that "We have been accused of hubris," referring to the controversy that gripped the Australian wine scene when the wines' prices were revealed. Indeed, Qantas Airlines' online web site said "No inaugural wine release was more controversial than that of Thousand Candles…". (I should add that I have not tasted the wines, nor has anyone at Wine Enthusiast, yet.) Such reviews of them as I've found online have been mainly positive. Most emphasize the wines' uniqueness, and that may well be true.
There are certainly arguments supportive of releasing some new brands at high prices. One is the pedigree of their creators; indeed, this is generally the most-used rationale. Such-and-such a famous viticulturalist and winemaker is involved; such-and-such great terroir: these usually are the prime justifications. In the case of Thousand Candles, there seems also to be a desire, on the part of the winemaker at any rate, to reassure the world that Australia, despite its well-publicized woes, is capable of producing top tier wines. Now this gets us into the through-the-looking glass world of perceptions: If a wine costs that much money, surely it must be good!
We know, from studies and through anecdotal evidence, that the tendency of the consumer to believe that price and quality are related is practically hard-wired into the brain. I don't quite understand what the evolutionary value of such reasoning is; perhaps someone can explain it to me. But it's a powerful driver; even if you intellectually understand that price and quality aren't that tightly connected, a high price has an emotional impact on most people that's makes it hard for them to reasonably dismiss it. Look at art: if it's a scribbled daub on the bulletin board at a local school, it's considered minor. Put it in a fancy frame, in a museum, and suddenly connoisseurs are willing to pay millions for it.
There's something else going on with these super-expensive wines that also touches in on human psychology. It's the feeling that, even if you taste the wine and don't particularly care for it, there must be something in you that's missing in action, not something in the wine. If you tasted a Two Buck Chuck and thought it was a thin disappointment, you wouldn't give it a second thought: It's just a cheap wine that doesn't deserve to have you lavish time and energy trying to understand it.
But a $110 wine is somehow different. Consider this review of Thousand Candles, from the Wine Will Eat Itself blog. The writer, Jeremy Pringle, is trying very hard (it seems to me) to be fair and objective in his assessment, for which I give him credit. He doesn't robotically fall into line worshiping the wine, just because it's expensive. Instead, he revisits it, thinks about it (a lot), considers the opinions of its critics, doubts himself, and retastes–these all are admirable qualities for a wine critic to possess. In the end, he writes, while the wine may not immediately dazzle ("Those who criticize this wine based on some sense of objective value for money are probably spot on"), he concludes that "it is a cerebral wine…best shared with others and within the context of a discussion if not a debate."
I understand where he's going…kind of. But why would you give a wine so much power over you, if your first impression of it is "Meh"? I'll tell you why. Because it's expensive, because it has a "surprising backstory," because the chattering classes are all mumbling about it, and because you, as a wine writer, don't want people to think you're not "up" on the latest important developments. So you give that wine extra consideration–extra time in the glass–extra thought. You want to find great stuff in there, so you look, and look, and look, and talk and talk about it, and suddenly, Voila! There it finally is: great stuff.
Well, this of course is precisely the reason to taste blind. But I am not ignorant of the fact that there's a huge other side to this debate, and that is, as Pringle writes, "There are occasions when context matters a great deal." Evidently, tasting Thousand Candles requires context. Does tasting Lafite require context? Does Harlan Estate require context? Does an Arrowood Cabernet require context? Does Two Buck Chuck require context? Where is the line? How does the critic determine which wines require context, and which can be summarily dismissed?
Good questions; no good answers.
Saying goodbye to the Golden Age of Wine Writing
I was talking yesterday with my old friend, Andy, who lives in Northampton, an area of Western Massachusetts I have close ties with. Andy told me that John Wolfson, the son of another friend of ours, is Editor of Boston Magazine, which makes me proud of the kid. At the same time, Andy's wife, Jan, has gotten a contract to write a book about art, but it's going to be a digital book. This led to a conversation about the future of print journalism versus digital publishing. I told Andy that the roadblock so far to the success of digital publishing has been the reluctance of advertisers to pay anything close to the rates they pay for ads in print publications. Since advertising is the lifeblood of publications, that means that publishers can't pay their writers as much for digital contributions as for print articles. I don't know what the overall average is nationwide, but I'd guess that print pays at least five times, maybe ten times as much as digital.
I also pointed out to Andy that this situation not only bodes ill for people who wish to make their living doing journalism, but also for the American people. If a reporter can't make a living reporting, then who's going to report on the shenanigans of the local City Council (or, in Andy's New England case, Board of Selectmen)? The heart and soul of American democracy is tied to an independent press, investigating and reporting without fear. This vital issue is at stake in the new reality.
Finally, I told Andy how grateful I am that I got into this wine writing gig during what I think of as The Golden Age of Wine Writing, which I estimate to have occurred over the last 30 years or so. Before that, nobody made much of a living writing about wine in the U.S., for the simple reason that not enough people cared about wine to buy and read a wine magazine. There were a few wine writers at big newspapers–Frank Prial at the N.Y. Times, Nate Chroman at the L.A. Times–but that was pretty much it.
However, with the growing up of the Baby Boomers and their (our) amazing, historic embrace of wine and wine culture, all that changed. Wine magazines started popping up all over the place, and while wine writing has never been a way to get rich (with a few exceptions: Jancis Robinson, Hugh Johnson), it was at least a way to practice an honorable career, one moreover that afforded the writer quite a bit in the way of perks.
All that is changing. Nobody knows what publishing is going to look like in five years, much less 25. But I think we all have the feeling that something revolutionary, and possibly destructive, has occurred. Was publishing, in the traditional way we think about it, simply a phenomenon of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution that is now fading away, in the Age of Digital Information? Nothing lasts forever. People need and want information, but do they care where it comes from, or what the motive of the information provider is?
As for wine writing, there are a lot of really talented young writers out there who would just love it if they could make a decent living at it. My fear is that they won't be able to. But maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe future generations won't need wine writers anymore than we need soothsayers. After all, with Wikipedia and Google, all the information in the world is right there with the click of a button. Right?
The "debate" over the usefulness of tasting notes is the biggest non-issue in the wine industry
My Tasting Director at Wine Enthusiast, Lauren Buzzeo, who has a hard job but carries it off with aplomb, sent us reviewers a link to this article yesterday. It's a defense of tasting notes by a Washington State guy who runs the wine department in a grocery store.
He begins by postulating that "Most of the stuff I have read lately suggests that tasting notes are a complete waste of time, and most people do not even pay attention to them." He then proceeds, logically and patiently, to demolish this theory. Then, based on his own experiences with his customers, he concludes that "Tasting notes have an important place in the wine world. They give the consumer some insight into what they are to expect out of a wine."
I've written endlessly about this topic on steveheimoff.com. As the Washington State writer noted, the issue of whether or not tasting notes are irrelevant "seems to be the hottest debate on most of the wine blogs or wine related blogs and websites these days." As I've repeatedly pointed out, the fact is, quite obviously, that consumers do like to read tasting notes. As the writer stated, his customers love them–and by extension, that means that customers around the country feel a need and desire for expert tasting notes, for why would Washington State wine consumers be any different from those elsewhere?
But that's not the point I want to make…again. Instead, I want to answer this question the Washington State guy posed: "Why are so many wine writers taking a negative stance towards tasting notes?" He himself posited a few possible reasons: (1) these critics don't actually sell wine, so they don't get the kind of positive feedback about tasting notes that he does; (2) the critics simply aren't very good at writing tasting notes, so they prefer to just sit back and make fun of them instead of trying to do it themselves.
Both of these are completely true, but I'd like to offer a third reason for the continual bashing of reviews by certain writers: Jealousy. They can't stand the idea that some wine writers actually make a living at writing wine reviews. If you look at who the review-bashers are, they're mostly bloggers, and you know what that means: They'd love for somebody to pay them to be professional wine writers, but no one will, so their only outlet is their blog. I sometimes think the fierce attack we published critics come under is also motivated by the hope by these bloggers that somehow their criticisms will tarnish us so much that we'll eventually fall, and guess who would take our places? The bloggers!
So I'd like to propose an end to this silly non-debate about whether or not tasting notes are useless or irrelevant. It is the biggest non-issue in the wine industry today. The only reason it gets any play at all is because the Internet is free and immediate, so anyone can make any idiotic claim they want, and launch it around the world with the push of a button. I will end simply by quoting the Washington State guy: "I write [tasting notes] for the consumer. I could care less what another columnist thinks about my notes and I certainly don't agree with their criticism of the notes themselves."
Being kind to mediocre wine
What should a critic do when he's confronted with a wine he himself would never consider drinking, yet isn't so awful as to be undrinkable?
I come across this problem all the time. I'll pour myself a tasting sip from the bottle, which is in a brown paper bag. The color seems all right. I smell: an immediate reaction of negativity. It can be boiled vegetables, like mushy asparagus, or it can be the nostril-pinching mold of botrytis (rather more common these days, as the 2011s come out). It can be exceptional amounts of oak, or some oak-like smell, heavily toasted and caramelized. It can be many things, but my first reaction to the "nose" is Uggh.
Then I taste, and the wine is no better in the mouth. It's thin and simple. Yesterday I reviewed a round of Chardonnays that were so watery, your palate had to frisk them up and down to find any trace of fruit. Or certain red wines can transfer the vegetativeness or mold of the aroma into the mouth. Such wines, too, elicit an "Ugh!" factor in me: I conceivably might drink them, but only were I stranded on a desert island and they were the only wines available.
So how do I deal with them, in terms of a score and a text review?
Well, for starters, there's a big difference between an undrinkable wine and one I personally loathe. Granted, the line between them can be blurry: it's not the same as the difference between two adjacent squares on the checkerboard, with a strict delineation between red and black. It's more like the edge of a shadow: fuzzy, inchoate. It's hard to tell exactly where the line of the shadow is, because, due to the scattering of atoms, there is no line, just an interference pattern that is "Heisenbergian" in indeterminacy.
That makes the choice between a score of 22 (absolutely undrinkable, under Wine Enthusiast's rules) and 80 or 81 (barely drinkable) a difficult one. On Tuesday the wine may be 22; on Wednesday, 80. So we have to admit there's a certain arbitrariness here. But the important thing to keep in mind is that my own personal preference or reaction to a wine ought to be irrelevant to my review of it.
This really can't be emphasized enough. In general you can say that any wine I review that scores between 80-84 points is not one I would wish to drink; yet such wines are drinkable, often eminently so, and, if priced right, can be bargains that receive the highly coveted "Best Buy" special designation the magazine lists in the wine's formal review in the Buying Guide. (Producers love it when their wines get "Best Buys" as they can use this in their marketing.)
I will often think, when writing a review of an 82-point wine that costs, say, $9, that millions of consumers will like it and consider themselves lucky to have gotten something so good at so affordable a price. This leads to the question of the critic putting himself in the shoes of the people he imagines himself to be writing for. In my case, this is an "average" consumer, one looking for value, as well as one who wants to enjoy his wine and have fun with it, preferably with companionable food. Since I have friends and family members to whom this description applies, I'll often visualize them in my mind as I review, in a sort of version of "What Would Johnny Think?"
However, as a wine critic, I'm aware that people of a higher order of wine appreciation, more akin to my own, also read Wine Enthusiast and will be curious about my reviews of rare and expensive wines. And so I wish to do a good job of reviewing those wines as well. And I think I do. This illustrates the balancing act that Wine Enthusiast tries to accomplish: to be the magazine (and website) of the "masses" as well as the source of high-class information about the world's greatest wines.
Most magazines and wine review newsletters do not do this. Some cater exclusively to the upper end. Others, who do not have access to the upper end, exclusively review what I call "supermarket wines" (and I'm sure you know what I mean). Few straddle the entire spectrum, at least in terms of the sheer numbers Wine Enthusiast does.
I'm very proud of the fact that, despite my preference for reviewing the greatest wines in California, I also have the opportunity of reviewing the commoners. Is it my favorite thing to do, to taste through 15 California-appellated Chardonnays that all cost less than $15? I'd be lying if I said it was. But I take that tasting to be as great a challenge as going through 15 high-level coastal Pinot Noirs or Napa Cabernet Sauvignons. Yes, I'd probably take two or three or even four times as long to taste through the latter as the former (because they're vastly more complex wines that require more time to understand). But if I can give a Best Buy to an inexpensive wine–even one I'd never drink myself–it makes it a happy camper.


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