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After Town Manager Jerry Gruber was assailed for not involving residents in his own appointment of Mike Guerra as Chief of Police, Guerra convened a committee of Atherton residents consisting of furniture store owner Marc Flegel and police loyalist Doug Devivo to advise him on the search. Feathers were ruffled when local police legends John Ruggiero and Chief Dick Moore were not consulted in this process.
Although Guerra is expected to report that he will continue to perform both the chief and lieutenant jobs to "save money", as recently as two months ago, both he and Gruber strenuosity argued with the city council that the position is absolutely required. Rumor is that the position is not being filled because the internal candidate Guerra had earmarked for promotion is too close to the current police report alteration scandal for comfort. He wants things to cool down before promoting him.
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LIVE! From #WBC2014, it's the Wine Bloggers Conference
It starts today. Although I'm not one of those FWCs (famous wine critics) anymore, the WBC people nonetheless invited me down to do a series of panels on wine writing, apparently because I'm still a wine writer! There are actually two related panels: One on the art of wine writing itself, and in the second, each of us panelists has been assigned to read 13 essays pre-submitted by WBC attendees, in order to critique them. I haven't read my quota yet—will tomorrow (today, as you read this). Don't know what to expect; heard from another panelist the submissions are pretty dreadful; hoping for the best.
I'm also moderating a panel sponsored by my employer, Jackson Family Wines, on "How the pros taste." On that one, my co-panelists are Joe Roberts AKA 1WineDude and Patrick Comiskey, senior correspondent for Wine & Spirits Magazine. I've known Patrick for many years, mainly because he's always at the same San Francisco tastings I am. I met Joe through this blogging gig, and I always thought, from the very beginning, that he was talented and weird enough to make it (yes, you have to be weird to be a successful wine writer). We're going to explain to the audience how we taste. The particular wine I'm using is the Cambria 2012 Clone 4 Pinot Noir, an interesting wine that, in my opinion, shows off the qualities of Santa Maria Valley very nicely, and also illustrates the earthy, mushroomy quality of that clone, also called the Pommard clone, which so many people find "Burgundian."
Well, you did ask. We'll also be doing a blind tasting of a mystery wine.
My own feelings toward blind tasting are well known to readers of this blog over the years. At the magazine, I tasted single blind: I knew the general scope of the lineup (e.g. Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon) but not the individual wines. I believe in single-blind tasting. I want some context to the wines. It helps me frame, in my mind, what to expect. Also, because I'm tasting in flights of similar wines, single-blind tasting is a great way to compare and contrast the wines, which is how the scores are arrived at.
But there are many ways to taste. I don't believe in wine writing for its own sake. I believe in getting paid to write about wine, because getting paid makes you a better writer. But each job is different, and mandates a different approach to tasting as well as writing. MWs like to taste double-blind; they don't know where they're going to end up working, so they have to have a wide knowledge of all the wines in the world, and double-blind tasting is a good way to get that. Many of them will end up working the floor of a fine dining establishment that may offer everything from Mount Etna to South Africa to Greece to Napa Valley, so the MW has to have her pulse on everything.
Other wine careerists will gravitate to different jobs. My own brought me to be a specialist in the wines of California. I've tasted 100,000-plus California wines over the last quarter-century and not that many wines from elsewhere. I try to get to international trade tastings as often as possible, but every employed wine person has to recognize his or her limitations. I wish I were stronger on international wines, but it is what it is. Parker probably wishes he was stronger on the wines of Italy; Laube probably wishes he was stronger on the Loire. You can't be all things to all people because there's only 24 hours in the day. Such is life.
So like I said, I believe in getting paid to write about wine, and not every job entails a worldwide knowledge of wine. My first panel at the Bloggers Conference, after all, is about wine writing, not tasting. Not all of these bloggers are going to end up working the floor of a restaurant. MWs may be able to double-blind identify a Ribera del Duero, but they may suck when it comes to writing, and writing, to me, is the essence of wine communication, especially if you're reaching out to a wide audience, and especially if you're trying to do the kind of writing I'm trying to do, which is great writing, memorable writing, writing that people like to read, not just now but for generations. That was my driving ambition with A Wine Journey along the Russian River. Sorry to sound self-serving, but I want that book to be read 100 years from now, not just make Eric Asimov's next Christmas list and then disappear forever. So that's what I mean when I say how you taste depends on your job. My job is to be a great wine writer (and a credible California taster), not the guy in the room who gets the gold medal for Best Identifier.
Still, I acknowledge that the times are different from when I started. Today, anyone and everyone in the wine biz seems to need some kind of diploma so they can put some letters after their last name. There's a clamor for a certain kind of academic expertise that's a product of our current career-driven environment. My friend Ron Washam, the Hosemaster of Wine, is famous (infamous?) for signing himself H.M.W., a conscious act of parody (but not sarcasm: Ron, as do I, recognizes the tremendous amount of work that goes into acquiring an M.S. or an M.W.). But he likes to poke fun at what he perceives as the snobbery that sometimes goes along with those titles. And I pretty much agree with The Hosemaster.
If I have one lesson to teach to the #WBC2014 participants, whether they're in the writing breakout or the tasting breakout, it's this: Be yourself. Learn your chops, yes; memorize the rainfall patterns in Beaujolais in 2009, if you want to, and be able to explain how all that acidity got into Pommard, if you have to: but ultimately, that won't differentiate you from the pack—and the pack is growing bigger every day.
Here's what you have to do to make a living these days: develop your own sense of style. The 21st century likes individuality. Develop your own way to describe wine. Be confident: you don't have to slavishly adhere to anyone's rules. You'd be amazed at the group-think mentality of the M.W. and M.S. communities., which gets boring even to them, believe me because I know what I'm talking about. Don't be afraid to march to the beat of a different drummer. Extremely technical wine knowledge used to be the province of wine brokers only; it still is, but this time it's brokers with many different sub-specialties. On the other hand are the poets, interpreters, chroniclers, historians, enthusiasts, balladeers, amateurs (in the Latin sense), dancers and diarists of wine; they know something above and beyond wine's technical details . Who do we read, twenty, forty, sixty years after they wrote? The poets and romancers, not the lab technicians. I hope today's bloggers never lose sight of that essential truth.
On "blindfolded monkeys" and blind tasting
I love graphs like this.
It illustrates, in stark honesty, the multi-year stock performance of the S&P 500 compared with a randomly-selected portfolio that could have been picked "by a blindfolded monkey."
Those, at least, are the words of the person who wrote the article, "A Random Way to Get Rich," which appears in a summer, 2014 supplement on "Money" from the Wall Street Journal.
The article's point—which investment advisors will not like—is that "If your money manager hasn't managed to beat some random stocks…you might want to start asking some questions." I don't suppose it will come as a shock to anyone that managed stock portfolio accounts will, often as not, perform more poorly than a portfolio chosen by, well, a blindfolded monkey. Every time I see those ads on T.V. for companies that will "help you retire with confidence," a wave of despair washes over me, for I don't trust these companies any more than I trust, well, a blindfolded monkey. After all, their promises of "security" were completely undone by the Recession. But there is a point to be made here, and that concerns professional wine tasting.
You have heard me say time and time again that the only wine review you should place your trust in is one that was conducted blind (albeit, not by monkeys). This is because of the nature of human psychology. If a financial analyst (I love that term, which conjures up images of brilliant, altruistic M.B.A.s working for no reason other than your financial security) imagines that he or she is being strictly objective in the choice of particular stocks, that M.B.A. ought to take a remedial course in freshman Psych 101. The stock market is, by definition and experience, a place of unpredictability. It is so random, so utterly un-analyzable by any human device yet conceived, that the 1905 description of Brownian motion, by Albert Einstein—for which he won the Nobel Prize, and which went on to become a conceptual base of quantum mechanics—could well apply to market fluctuations.
Randomness, too, characterizes the tasting and reviewing of wine. While wine reviewing may appear to be, or approach being, an exact science, of course it is anything but; and by this, I do not mean to undercut the role of the wine critic, which was a job that paid my bills for many years, and which I thoroughly enjoyed. No, I mean only to suggest that, if you consistently taste wines blind, wrapped in their little brown paper bags, you will find results quite different from those published by the majority of famous magazines and newsletters.
Correction: let me rephrase that. You might or might not find results that might or might not be quite different. In fact, in one parallel universe, if you taste enough wines, blind, for a long enough period of time, at least one of the results will look exactly like any given edition of The Wine Advocate. But an infinitude of other possible results will be different, sometimes only slightly so, sometimes significantly. That is the Heisenbergian truth of random results: they are random precisely because they are unpredictable, an aspect of reality that is hard-wired into the fabric of the universe.
Some conservatives lament theories of the random nature of outcomes. They say that experience proves otherwise—a car, driven at high speed, will not pass through a brick wall, but will smash into it with deadly results, despite the slight relativistic possibility that it will in fact emerge unscathed on the other side. So, these anti-relativists argue, it is ridiculous to think that anything other than our well-understood cause-and-effect universe could be "real," except, possibly, in some fantastic mathematical sense.
This is true as far as it goes in our macro world of cars and brick walls. It is patently untrue when it comes to the anything-goes micro world of sub-atomic particles. And while the human mind seems neither to be part of the macro world nor of the micro world, it does in fact have more in common with the latter; for it is a "black box" into which others cannot peer, and of which the owner himself may be unaware, in terms of its particulars. Tasting wine openly, with full appreciation of its origin, is in fact contamination of the black box's insides: you cannot do it without discombobulating the entire process. Thus, you cannot call open tasting "real," since it represents a serious interference with the reality of what a wine actually tastes like. In the famous thought experiment called Schrodinger's cat, one is confronted with a paradox: "This poses [says Wikipedia] the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other." Open tasting illustrates this paradox: It is utterly impossible for the outsider to know, or even to begin to comprehend, what the thought process was of the reviewer, whose mentation may (or may not) have been influenced by any one, or combination of, multiple factors. Therefore, one cannot say that the reviewer's conclusion is "real," except within limits, and even then subject to faith and belief. One can accept the conclusion—it may influence one's own conclusions and behavior—but one cannot assume that the conclusion itself has validity, at least in the scientific sense of being replicable.
Should therefore we entrust our wine reviewing to "a blindfolded monkey" or indeed a team of blindfolded monkeys? No; that would be a logical fallacy. But the realization that a random portfolio of stocks outperforms the S&P 500, which is the basis of so many mutual fund portfolios, should alert us to the fact that winetasting results from open tastings may also not be the best source of information; and this in turn should put the results of any such tasting into perspective. This is a revolutionary statement: if everyone subscribed to it—tastemakers, gatekeepers, consumers, producers, the media—the wine world as we know it would turn completely upside down. Nobody likes disruption, though, which is why the status quo is unlikely to change anytime soon, despite the burgeoning presence of Millennials who, it is said, are going to upset every apple cart there is. They should, in the case of formal wine reviewing; but they are unlikely to, because (speaking of apple carts), the fruit never falls far from the tree; each Millennial is more like his or her mother or father than one may care to admit. Still, go back and take another look at the chart. If instead of AAPL, CAT, XOM and NFLX you substituted Lafite, Romanée-Conti, Yquem and Screaming Eagle, would that cause you to reconsider your reliance on professional critics, now that you understand how perfectly random these things are?
My early career as an amateur wine buff
I remember it as if it all happened yesterday instead of 35 years ago. I was newly arrived in San Francisco, had no money and needed a place to live. So I answered an ad on the S.F.S.U. housing board for a house sitter. It was for a dilapidated old four-room cottage in the southwestern neighborhood known as Top of the Hill Daly City, although in this case, it was at the bottom of the hill. The owner for some reason had the electricity shut off throughout the place, except for my bedroom. There was no heat. Because it was such a hardship case, the owner charged me only $15 a month–although he should have paid me for tolerating such a crummy place. It was wintertime, which can be very cold in San Francisco, and that, added to the location near the ocean, made it really damp and uncomfortable. My only source of heat—and cooking—was a hotplate. But I didn't care. I was young, strong and adventurous, and, hey, I was living in San Francisco and having the time of my life!
I'd started getting into wine, mainly by buying those little handbooks that were so popular back then: Olken, Singer & Roby's "The Connoisseurs' Handbook of California Wines" and Bob Thompson's "The Pocket Encyclopedia of California Wines."
Since I couldn't afford to buy much I also depended on local critics' reviews in the various newspapers. Here's a photo from my little notebook of that time where I kept track of their reviews:
W. is Wilfred Wong, RH is Richard Paul Hinkle, H.S. is Harvey Steiman, J.M. is Jerry Mead, W.B. was something called the Wine Buying Guide, B.G. is the Bay Guardian, ADB is Anthony Dias Blue and the Best Buys were from the San Francisco Chronicle.
After a couple years I could finally afford to start buying some nice bottles, so I began to keep my Tasting Diaries. Here's a page for a 1978 Lytton Springs Zin I reviewed in late 1984.
By now, I had developed a tasting template: date, occasion ("Thanksgiving at Maxine's"), and the standard color-nose-taste three-pronged approach. As you can see, I was already beginning to appreciate that some wines need age ("Disappointing; too young") and also had come up with a rudimentary rating system of stars (to be replaced by the 100-point system when I started doing that).
This Montelena 1979 Chard, which I tasted in 1983, is interesting for three reasons: I was blown away by the price ($12, so expensive at the time. Today it's $50), I included a food pairing, and,, via the "NOTE" section, I began to introduce more subjective commentary into my reviews. I was much fascinated back then by the French word goût (as in goût de terroir); it shows up a lot in those early reviews.
I wish I still had the first note I ever wrote. It was in 1979 in that awful, cold, barren house at Top of the Hill Daly City. It was for an Almaden Cabernet Sauvignon with a Monterey County appellation. I recall with crystal clarity sitting in the freezing cold at the little table off the kitchen and making my notes. I cannot remember a word of what I wrote, but I know that I concentrated on it very carefully. I think I liked it; at that time I was not aware of the issue of "Monterey veggies."
It's hard to know with any precision why a person gets hooked onto something virtually overnight (I don't mean drugs, I mean hobbies). In 1979 I knew no one at all who cared a thing about wine. My family and friends were oblivious to it, although they were increasingly having to put up with my blather about the latest bottle I'd enjoyed. Looking back, it blows my mind that I was so feverishly making all these notes (my Tasting Diaries eventually filled five hard-cover volumes, amounting to thousands of wines). Why was I doing all that work? For whom? For nobody; for myself. There was no payoff. I never expected anyone to care about what I thought about wine.
Why a famous critic's 100 point wine may disappoint you
Patricia Talorico's column in Delaware Online, describing her disappointment at a tasting of 100-point wines, is worth reading, if for no other reason than to make the point that a famous critic's taste may not correspond to yours.
And there are some good reasons for that, which I'll get to in a moment.
As a journalist, Patricia went to a tasting in Wilmington that consisted of ten wines, each of which had received a perfect 100-point score from either Robert Parker, Wine Spectator, James Suckling or Wine Enthusiast. So excited was she in advance (I would be, too, and so would you) that she called it "a fantasy event not to miss."
After all, on the roster were such celebrated bottles as 2010 Leoville-Barton, 2010 Dominus, 2001 Rieussec and 2006 Casanova di Neri Tenuta Nuova Brunello di Montalcino. Who wouldn't be up for that?
But, alas, as Patricia reports, she was "Not…blown away by a majority of [the] highly rated wines." For example, "I was less impressed" by a 2000 Krug Brut than were some of the other tasters. Then there was a 2009 Giovanni Chiappini Guado de Gemoli that, Patricia wrote, "got little more than a ho-hum" despite its 100 point score from Wine Enthusiast. She quoted others present as being highly critical of the Tenuta Nuova that Suckling gave 100 points to. "Over-ripe," said one. "Not a perfect vintage," sniffed another.
On the other hand, there was that 2010 Dominus, which everyone seemed to fall in love with. Still, that didn't stop Patricia from offering readers this advice: "Wine lovers, save your money" when it comes to some of these high-priced rarities.
I couldn't agree more. The thing the public has to keep in mind—actually, several things—when it comes to evaluating these high scores from famous critics is that the wines sometimes aren't tasted blind. Sometimes, they're tasted on the premises of the winery, alongside the winemaker or owner. (Wine Enthusiast has a firm policy against this, as I know well.) This has profound psychological effects, not the least of which is what we call "tasting room bias." A wine will usually taste better under conditions of propinquity and proximity to its source of production, than it will at a distance. Put another way, if you're an invited guest at [fill-in-the-blank] great winery, sipping the wine in the glamorous reception room with the world-famous winemaker, it's far more likely you'll be dazzled than if you tasted the same wine poured from a bottle in a paper bag, in a blind flight of its peers.
Another thing to keep in mind is that, when these famous wine critics are tasting the wine openly, they're aware of such factors as the quality of the vintage (which they've probably also pronounced upon) and their own previous reviews of the same wine from prior vintages. There is a tendency (understandable) on the part of critics to want to be consistent in their reviews. Consistency is a large part of their credibility, after all, especially among the proprietors of great wineries who invite them to taste the latest vintage. I'm not saying that a scrupulous critic will deliberately stretch the truth for the sake of consistency. But it may be that his or her sensory impressions are skewed, at a subconscious level.
This is a very large part of the reason why the same wines keep on getting the same high scores over and over again from the same famous critics. It's also why less famous (which is to say, less well-connected) wine writers, such as Patricia, often find themselves underwhelmed at tastings like the Judgment of Wilmington. She had no skin in the game, no reputational stakes on the table, no consistency to safeguard. All she had was her palate. As, indeed, do we all.
Why do people buy wine?
There's a million reasons, of course, but one that's interested me for years is why they're willing to pay a premium for some wines and not for others. And in some cases, a huge premium.
The plain and simple fact is that a $1,000 wine isn't ten times better than a $100 wine or 20 times better than a $50 wine. In fact, you could make a strong argument (which I guess I'm making now) that, once you get above a certain price, there's less and less difference between wines. That $500 bottle of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon isn't necessarily better than a $50 Napa Cab.
We have to define what "better" means, though, before we can proceed. By "better" I mean the wine's hedonistic or organoleptic or purely sensory qualities: the flavors, the way it feels in the mouth, the finish. In a great winemaking region such as Napa Valley, where the overall quality is as high as anywhere on earth, the consumer can rightfully expect a certain standard of excellence once the wine gets to, say, $40. This is why you can make a blind tasting and often a more modestly priced Cab will win.
Which returns us to the question: If the $500 Cab and the $50 Cab are so alike in objective quality, then why would anyone in their right mind buy the former?
Well, you have divined the answer, haven't you, dear reader? It's because, when it comes to paying these astronomical prices, there's nothing objective whatever going on in the buyer's mind. It's all subjectivity.
How does this subjectivity work? We get a hint of the mechanism by reading this description of a tasting set up by a crafty Frenchman, Frédéric Brochet, who fooled a bunch of so-called connossieurs. "[He] decanted the same ordinary bordeaux into a bottle with a budget label and one with that of a grand cru. When the connoisseurs tasted the 'grand cru' they rhapsodised its excellence while decrying the 'table' version as flat."
If you're a regular reader of this blog, and of wine news in general, you've no doubt heard enough of these kinds of experiments to know that they demonstrate the point I'm trying to make: Your experience of the wine all depends on what you think you're drinking.
My goal today, though, isn't to reiterate this point, but to try and rehabilitate the reputations of people who routinely get fooled in these tastings, and to show that they're not total idiots, and you shouldn't condemn them as such. Instead, their very failure to perceive reality illustrates one of the best reasons to drink fine wine: because it satisfies, not just the senses, but the intellect.
When I taste Lafite Rothschild, for example, and I know what it is (nobody tastes Lafite blind), I have to admit my soul lights up. I get excited. I pay very careful attention, because this is, after all, Lafite. I know the back-story: First Growth of Bordeaux. Ancient history. One of the greatest red wines in the world. Thomas friggin' Jefferson loved it. My reaction similarly would be the same as, say, being given the Koh-i-Noor diamond, as opposed to costume jewelry. If you gave me the Koh-i-Noor (you'd have to wrestle it away from Queen Elizabeth first), you just know I'd stare at it and bring it up to the light and look through it and ogle it and go ooh and ahh and remember that moment forever. Now, on my own, I'm sure I couldn't tell the difference between the Koh-i-Noor and a cubic zirconium from QVC, but that's precisely the point: in our little thought experiment, I do know the difference. And that makes all the difference.
This subjectivity explains why wines of equal or almost equal quality may vary so widely in price. The pleasure of drinking Lafite consists of far more than merely what the wine tastes like. This is something that's hard for outsiders to understand, but which is easy for a wine geek. To think that you're in a limited circle of people privileged to taste something as exclusive and expensive as Lafite boosts your love and appreciation of the wine. This may sound snobbish to some people, but it's perfectly understandable. It's occurring in the brain, the seat of thinking and understanding; and pleasuring that part of the cerebral cortex is as important as pleasuring the senses, maybe even more so.
So I'm arguing for some understanding for these poor schlemiels who get caught in these wine tasting entrapments. It could happen to you, it could happen to me, and in fact, it has. What it says about wine isn't that it cheapens the experience or levels the playing field, but that it elevates wine tasting to a fine art whose appreciation requires knowledge and understanding. As the physicist/mathematician, Freeman Dyson, observed, "Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding." What we think is, for each of us, reality; it's our collective thinking that elevates Lafite to Grand Cru-ness.
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I didn't taste everything, but here are my abbreviated notes. [All retail prices are my own estimations, based on wholesale price.] As you can see, you can take the wine critic out of the game—but you can't take the game out of the wine critic!
Chateau d'Armailhac 2010 [$120]: Great Pauillac structure on this 5th growth; firm, dur. Glorious stuffing, all black currants. Very complex and mouth-filing, a very good wine. Drink 2022 and beyond. Score: 95.
Chateau d'Armailhac 2000 ($175). A little lacking in depth, but with plenty of charm. Very pure and refined. Drinking beautifully now with, say, a fine grilled entrecote. Score: 91.
Chateau Clerc Milon 2010 ($200). Great depth, a real beauty, but so tannic. Heaps of blackberries and cherries. Fabulous acidity. Will make a great bottle after, say, 2022. Score: 93.
Chateau Clerc Milon 2006 ($170). Not a big wine, in fact a little thin. But it's delicate and refined. Drink up. Score: 88 points.
Chateau Palmer 2006 Alter Ego de Palmer ($175). Fleshy, meaty, with blackberry and black currant flavors as well as a bacon fat, truffly richness. But very tannic. Seems best opened in the next few years. Score: 88.
Chateau Palmer 2004 ($320). A dramatic wine, in the midst of an evolution and not showing well right now. Neither hard nor soft, but the tannins are strong and there's plenty of elegance. With lots of fruit, it should develop after 2020. Score: 90.
Chateau Palmer 1999 ($475). A gorgeous wine and a great success for the vintage. Surely approaching its peak now. So supple and rich in sweet cherry pie filling, with wonderful acidity and tannins. Silky and absolutely delicious, a standout in this tasting. Score: 96.
La Parde de Haut-Bailly 2008 ($39). Solid, masculine, still with hard tannins. The vintage was not great but the wine has good fruit and will drink well in, say, 5-6 more years. Score: 88.
La Parde de Haut-Bailly 2010 ($50). Solid, a litte gutsy. Very dry and tannic, some rusticity. Not an ager, but a clean, well-made wine. Score: 88.
Chateau Haut-Bailly 2010 ($180). A huge wine, with dusty tannins and good acidity. Lots of fruit, with a pleasant, Graves minerality. Needs many years. Drink 2022 and beyond. Score: 94.
Chateau Haut-Bailly 2003 ($110). The wine is showing considerable evolution, with the fruit revealing secondary notes. Still some tannins to shed. A good wine that should open further by 2018. Score: 90.
Chateau de Sales 2010 ($37). A lovely wine, round and feminine. Oodles of black currants and cassis, so sweet and tender. Significant tannins, but it's soft enough to drink now and through 2022. A great value in a Pomerol. Score: 92.
Chateau Certan de May 2008 ($115). A hard wine, with big, tough tannins, but some lovely fruit. Tons of black currants and minerals. Needs time. Give it another ten years to come around. Score: 93.
Chateau Certan de May 2010 ($190). Far greater depth and complexity than the 2008, in fact twice the wine. Such opulence and craftsmanship. Very fine, balanced and elegant, but young. Wait until 2025, for starters. Score: 95.
Chateau Hosanna 2010 ($275). For me, a bizarre wine. Too oaky. Incredibly strong, spicy, black currants, chocolate nibs, anise. California style, fat, opulent. It is said this wine needs a great amount of time to come around, but I would not take the gamble, especially at this price. Score: 87.
Chateau Hosanna 2004 ($NA). Same style as the 2010, a big, oaky, New World-y wine. Beginning to show its stuff, but still nowhere near ready. I scored it 91 points based on potential.
Chateau Lafleur-Gazin 2007 ($45). A rustic wine, hard around the edges, but good fruit. Ready to drink now-2015. Score: 86.
Chateau Magdelaine 2008 ($105). Soft, fleshy, what you want a Saint-Emilion to be. Mainly Merlot, with lots of red cherries and red currants and a lovely mouthfeel. Needs time. Drink after 2020. Score: 93.
Chateau Puy-Blanquet 2011 ($27). A nice wine, with some lovely fruit, but for me, too sharp in acidity. I said this to Christian and he remarked, "Well, the vintage…".
Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild 2007 ($300). This junior Mouton is delicious in black currants and cassis, although it lacks the power of the Grand Seigneur. Drink 2019 and beyond. Score: 91.
Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2005 ($950). Possibly it was just me, but this wine wasn't showing well despite the vintage's reputation. Primary fruits starting to evolve, but it's a bit raw. But you have to give it the benefit of the doubt, especially considering the stellar reviews the wine has received from top critics. Undoubtedly it is going through an awkward phase. I did not rate this wine and would like to taste it again from another bottle.
Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2010 ($1500). An awesome wine, huge, magnificent, clearly a Great Growth. Masses of black currants, perfect oak, gorgeous acids and tannins. Will improve for decades. This was so stunning I swallowed rather than spit. Potentially a perfect wine. Score: 99.


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- Outline the departmentalization options available to corporations from an organizational structure perspective Differentiate between centralized and decentralized decision-making, and the resulting structural implications Important characteristics of an organization's structure include span of control, departmentalization, centralization, and decentralization.
- Departmentalization is the basis by which an organization groups tasks together.
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- Recent trends that aim to combat these disadvantages include the use of teams that cross traditional departmental lines and the promotion of cross-functional communication.
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- Geographic departmentalization: Geographic departmentalization involves grouping activities based on geography, such as an Asia/Pacific or Latin American division.
- Geographic departmentalization is particularly important if tastes and brand responses differ across regions, as it allows for flexibility in product offerings and marketing strategies (an approach known as localization).
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ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of smoking on the relationship between interleukin-1 (IL-1β) and oxidation in patients with periodontitis and response to nonsurgical periodontal therapy. Data were obtained from 30 patients with generalized chronic periodontitis (15 smokers and 15 nonsmokers) and from 10 periodontally healthy controls. IL-1β level, total oxidant status (TOS) and total antioxidant status (TAS) were recorded in gingival crevicular fluid. Probing depth, clinical attachment level, gingival and plaque indices and bleeding on probing were also measured. The gingival crevicular fluid and clinical parameters were recorded at baseline and 6 wk after periodontal treatment. The study showed statistically significant improvement of clinical parameters in both smokers and nonsmokers after periodontal treatment. Moreover, the baseline IL-1β levels were significantly higher in smokers compared with nonsmokers (p < 0.05). After periodontal treatment, the IL-1β levels were significantly reduced in both smokers and nonsmokers (p < 0.05). There were no significant differences in TOS and TAS between periodontitis patients and healthy controls at baseline and 6 wk after periodontal treatment. The level of IL-1β in gingival crevicular fluid was positively correlated with TOS in both smokers and nonsmokers. Periodontal treatment improved the clinical parameters in both smokers and nonsmokers. The results confirm that periodontal therapy has an effect on IL-1β levels in gingival crevicular fluid, but not on TOS and TAS.Journal of Periodontal Research 02/2012; 47(5):572-7. DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0765.2012.01468.x · 2.22 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The role of various microorganisms including Chlamydophila (formerly Chlamydia) pneumoniae, have been frequently investigated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. In our study, the relationship between C.pneumoniae seropositivity and risk factors for atherosclerosis have been evaluated. A total of 90 atherosclerotic patients (71 of them were male; age range: 45-87 years; mean age: 65.3 ± 8.7 years) and 90 control subjects without coronary diseases (41 of them were male; age range: 42-84 years; mean age: 61.6 ± 9.6 years) were included in the study. Both groups were also evaluated for the presence of risk factors such as age, gender, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, familial history and the high levels of ferritin, cholesterol (total, HDL and LDL) and HS (high sensitive)-CRP. The presence of C.pneumoniae IgG, IgM and IgA antibodies were investigated by micro-immunofluorescence (MIF) and ELISA methods using commercial kits (Euroimmun, Germany). The total antibody seropositivity rate was found 100% (90/90) in patient group by both MIF and ELISA methods, while this rate in control group was 94% (85/90) by MIF and 92% (83/90) by ELISA. When MIF test results were taken into consideration (since it is accepted as the reference method for C.pneumoniae serology), IgG, IgM and IgA positivity rates in patient and control groups were found as 100% (90/90) and 89% (80/90); 70% (63/90) and 59% (53/90); 3% (3/90) and 2% (2/90), respectively. Statistically significant difference between patient and control groups was detected only for IgG positivity (p< 0.05) and for total antibody positivities (100% and 94%, respectively) (p< 0.05). The evaluation of the risk factors revealed that age, hypertension, dyslipidemia and HS-CRP levels exhibited statistically significant differences between patient and control groups (p< 0.05 for each parameter tested). Statistically significant relation was detected only between high HS-CRP levels and C.pneumoniae seropositivity (p< 0.05). It was concluded that in areas with high C.pneumoniae infection prevalence, early diagnosis and specific treatment of C.pneumoniae infections, may prevent establishment of chronic infection and eliminate a risk factor for the development of atherosclerosis.Mikrobiyoloji bülteni 01/2012; 46(1):156-8. · 0.44 Impact Factor
Article: The seroprevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in humans from two different climatic regions of Turkey and its co-seroprevalence rate with Borrelia burgdorferi[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Aim: To investigate the seroprevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in people living in 2 different climatic regions and to evaluate the co-seroprevalence rate of A. phagocytophilum with Borrelia burgdorferi. Sinop and Tokat provinces, both in the middle Black Sea region of Turkey, have distinct climatic features. Materials and methods: In 2006-2007, serum samples were collected from people living in rural areas of Tokat and Sivas, and anti-A. phagocytophilum IgG antibodies were explored by the IFA method. Positive samples were further investigated for the possible presence of B. burgdorferi IgG antibodies. Results: A. phagocytophilum seropositivity was found in 29 (10.62%) out of 273 serum samples in Sinop and 21 (5.77%) out of 364 serum samples in Tokat (P = 0.035). Co-seroprevalence for A. phagocytophilum and B. burgdorferi was found to be 3.30% in Sinop and 0.55% in Tokat (P = 0.012). Conclusion: The current study suggests that A. phagocytophilum infections can be seen in humans from different climatic regions of Turkey. Both the seroprevalence of A. phagocytophilum and the possibility of mixed infections of A. phagocytophilum and B. burgdorferi are higher in places with more suitable habitats for Ixodes ricinus ticks.Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences 10/2011; 41(5):903-908. DOI:10.3906/sag-1009-1148 · 0.84 Impact Factor
Article: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in ticks collected from humans, livestock, and picnic sites in the hyperendemic region of Turkey.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: During June and July 2007, about 3125 adult ticks were collected from humans, animals, and vegetation in a hyperendemic region (Sivas and Tokat) of Turkey. A total of 2193 ticks were pooled in 225 pools and screened for the Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) presence by antigen-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Infection rates were calculated as the maximum likelihood estimation with 95% confidence intervals (CI). The dominant tick species was found to be Hyalomma marginatum with the following infestation rates in human, cattle and sheep, respectively: 47.43%, 66.07%, and 30.12%. Maximum likelihood estimation values of CCHFV in H. marginatum ticks collected from human, cattle, and sheep were 0.91% (CI 0.05-4.42), 2.10% (CI 1.12-3.64), and 3.11% (CI 1.18-6.87), respectively. CCHFV antigens were also demonstrated in Hyalomma excavatum, Haemaphysalis parva, and Boophilus annulatus ticks collected from cattle and Rhipicephalus bursa ticks from sheep. Our results suggest that the studied area might maintain its endemic properties in the near future unless effective tick control measures are implemented.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) 07/2011; 11(10):1411-6. DOI:10.1089/vbz.2011.0651 · 2.53 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to examine the effect of phase I periodontal treatment on the levels of interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-1ra, and IL-10 in gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) in patients with generalized aggressive periodontitis (G-AgP). Data were obtained from 15 patients with aggressive periodontitis and 15 healthy controls. GCF was collected from at least four pre-selected sites (one shallow, at least two moderate, or at least one deep pockets) in patients with G-AgP. In the healthy group, GCF samples were collected from one site. The cytokine levels were determined by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Probing depth, clinical attachment level (CAL), gingival and plaque indices, and bleeding on probing were measured. The GCF sampling and clinical measurements were recorded at baseline and 6 weeks later after periodontal treatment. IL-1beta levels were significantly higher at the moderate and deep pocket sites compared with the shallow sites (p<0.05). After periodontal therapy, IL-1beta levels were significantly reduced in the moderate and deep pocket sites (p<0.05). IL-1ra levels at baseline of the moderate and deep pocket sites were significantly lower than the control sites (p<0.05). IL-10 levels were similar in all pockets and did not change after periodontal therapy. The periodontal treatment improves the clinical parameters in G-AgP, and this improvement is evident in deep pocket sites for pocket depth and CAL values. These results confirm that IL-1beta is effective for evaluating the periodontal inflammation and can thus be used as a laboratory tool for assessing the activity of periodontal disease.Journal Of Clinical Periodontology 06/2008; 35(6):507-13. DOI:10.1111/j.1600-051X.2008.01213.x · 3.61 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Study was started in November 2005 and education practices and other activities have been realized between the dates of December 2005 and 5 January 2006. A wide group has been chosen from the students who are at the level of primary and secondary education to adults as a target mass to create awareness. Correspondences related to the subject have been done with Cumhuriyet University rector ship, Sivas governs ship, Sivas manager of education, Sivas mufti and essential otorizations got. Pictorial leaflets which introduce disease and explain infection and ways of protection are prepared and sent all province and county school by means of Manager of Education. Besides, lots of leaflet is distributed to tradesmen and public. Large sized posters are published about disease to make people aware of it. It is provided that these posters are distributed to all schools and mosques. Lectures are organized to introduce the disease and emphasize the ways of protection in five fixed center by two sessions. It is provided that 89 primary and secondary school students' attendance regularly with their teachers. Besides the working of society awareness, preparing executing and treating of control programs about cystic echinococcosis are other important and necessary stages.Turkiye parazitolojii dergisi / Turkiye Parazitoloji Dernegi = Acta parasitologica Turcica / Turkish Society for Parasitology 02/2007; 31(4):313-7.
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ABSTRACT: The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of meloxicam after initial periodontal treatment on interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) and IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) in gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) and clinical parameters in the chronic periodontitis patients. Data were obtained from 30 patients with chronic periodontitis. Fifteen chronic periodontitis patients received 7.5 mg meloxicam, and 15 patients received placebo tablets in a 1x1 regimen for 1 month. All subjects were nonsmokers and had not received any periodontal therapy. The plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI), probing depth (PD), and clinical attachment level (CAL) were recorded. The GCF was collected using a paper strip: eluted and enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assays (ELISAs) were performed to determine the cytokine levels. The clinical data and GCF samples were obtained after periodontal therapy and 1 month after periodontal therapy. The PI, GI, PD, and GCF IL-1ra decreased significantly (p<0.05) in meloxicam group at first month when comparing the initial levels. While decrease of the PI was statistically significant in control group (p<0.05), statistically significant changes were not determined in the other clinical parameters and GCF cytokine levels (p>0.05). There were no significant differences between two groups in any of the investigated parameters. Our observations did not reveal any influence of meloxicam on levels of IL-1beta and IL-1ra in chronic periodontitis. Additional clinical studies are advisable to determine whether COX-2 selective drugs alter periodontal disease outcome with greater safety.Clinical Oral Investigations 12/2006; 10(4):305-10. DOI:10.1007/s00784-006-0062-3 · 2.29 Impact Factor
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Hours after the Goa Police registered an FIR and accused him of raping a colleague, Tehelka magazine founder Tarun Tejpal Friday alleged that the victim was lying.
His lawyers, he said, know he is being framed and are aware of "political forces driving much of it".
"It is a totally mendacious account of what happened, in its details, in its tonalities, in its very suggestion of non-consensus," Tejpal, who stepped down as editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Wednesday for six months over the alleged incident, said referring to the allegations by his colleague.
"In cold light of day, much of it will sound unsavoury, but now the inquiry will reveal it all," he told The Indian Express in response to questions emailed to him.
Tejpal also said that the allegation by the journalist that he told her the best way to keep her job was by not resisting his advances, was a "half-truth". "This is one of the half-truths she's voiced. Nothing of this, as she states, was said or intended," he said.
"My lawyers know I am being framed, and are also aware of the political forces driving much of it now," he added.
The woman journalist has accused Tejpal of sexually assaulting her on two occasions during a media event organised by the publication in Goa earlier this month.
After she complained in an email to Tehelka's managing editor Shoma Chaudhury, Tejpal announced he was recusing himself from his job for six months to atone for what he claimed was an "unfortunate incident" caused by "a bad lapse of judgment" and "an awful misreading of the situation". He also claimed he had unconditionally apologised to the colleague for his misconduct.
Asked if recusing himself from work for six months was punishment enough in view of the grave allegations, he said: "I had no reason to do that. I did so because Shoma Chaudhury felt I needed to make a clear gesture of atonement to appease the journalist's sense of being aggrieved. At this point Shoma did not want to take into account my version of the events. She felt we needed to honour the journalist's sense of being aggrieved. She felt we needed to honour the journalist's complaint, right or wrong, with some gestures."
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Boston's hotels are widely varied to accommodate travelers on all different types of budgets. Luxury hotels like the Revere Hotel (named for Boston's most famous midnight rider) and the Hotel Commonwealth offer premier locations and 5-star amenities, while recognizable chains like Best Western and Embassy Suites start at lower price points. Small bed and breakfasts are also a nice option to look into. One to consider is the cozy, four-room Encore B&B, which is located in the South End neighborhood and within walking distance of Copley Square and Back Bay.
If you're looking for a low-key hotel in Boston, try A Friendly Inn at Harvard Square. Here, experience the picturesque New England town of Cambridge while still having access to the T (Boston's metro) that'll take you into downtown Boston. If you're planning on sightseeing, The Constitution Inn is a great option. Located in downtown Boston, it's situated right at the start of the Freedom Trail—a 2.5 mile-long route with 16 historical museums, churches, cemeteries, and meeting houses. With 143 rooms, a fitness center, pool, and convenient location, the Constitution Inn is one of the best hotels in Boston.
Housed in a 1903 Beaux Arts building with authentic brass cage elevators and antique brass fixtures, this hotel brings old-world and modern design together beautifully.
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Built in 1900, and topping out at a whopping 11 stories, Boston's "original boutique hotel" was once the city's tallest building. Its stature doesn't earn it much attention these days, but its award-winning green living and eco-sustainability practices do.
This harbor hotel stands out for its prime waterfront location along Long Wharf pier. Next-door neighbors include Boston Harbor Cruises, New England Aquarium and Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park; across the street are the perpetually popular Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market.
Smack-dab in the Seaport District, this hotel is mere seconds away from the Institute of Contemporary Art, historic Boston Fish Pier, and adjacent World Trade Center, where major trade shows and events like Boston Comic Con and the Boston Globe Travel Show are held.
This boutique property has its own Maritime Museum, as well as a 24-hour observation deck for getting fresh sea air (at 3:00 a.m., if you so choose). Every summer, the hotel hosts the Flash Forward Festival, a four-day photography showcase for emerging artists.
This hotel's modern and glossy facade fits in well with the artsy, up-and-coming feel of the Fort Point Channel district. Contemporary art exhibitions are regularly held in the lobby—most recently, it hosted "POP!
Elegantly situated at Rowes Wharf, this hotel has guest rooms and suites that all offer panoramic views over the harbor or city skyline (or sometimes both, depending on which balcony you're looking from).
This stylish Boston boutique located just a short stroll from Fenway Park offers family packages with guaranteed connecting rooms, and tickets to your choice of Children's Museum, Boston Duck tour, or New England Aquarium.
Can you think of better family bonding than a day paddling the scenic and serene Charles River channel?
The Fairmont Copeley Plaza in Boston's historic Back Bay neighborhood makes kids feel at home. Upon arrival, black labs (the hotel's canine ambassadors) will warmly greet pet lovers in the lobby with slobbery kisses and wagging tails (kids can take them on an afternoon walk).
Located directly across from the Boston Common, this luxury Boston hotel treats its pint-sized guests like royalty. With the Superstar Kids Package, kids and teens get an age-appropriate swag bag, trendy sunglasses, and a family breakfast at The Bristol Lounge.
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You want nothing but the best for your baby. Before his arrival, you spent all your free time researching car seats and assembling pint-sized pieces of furniture. And now that he's finally here (congratulations!), it's time to make some important decisions about the baby products you'll be using every day for the next few years.
From food and snacks to lotions and bubble bath - how do you know which brands and products are the best?
Here are some things to look out for when you're shopping for healthy baby products: