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|Hexavalent chromium reduction by Cellulomonas sp. strain ES6: the influence of carbon source, iron minerals, and electron shuttling compounds.
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|The reduction of hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), to trivalent chromium, Cr(III), can be an important aspect of remediation processes at contaminated sites. Cellulomonas species are found at several Cr(VI) contaminated and uncontaminated locations at the Department of Energy site in Hanford, Washington. Members of this genus have demonstrated the ability to effectively reduce Cr(VI) to Cr(III) fermentatively and therefore play a potential role in Cr(VI) remediation at this site. Batch studies were conducted with Cellulomonas sp. strain ES6 to assess the influence of various carbon sources, iron minerals, and electron shuttling compounds on Cr(VI) reduction rates as these chemical species are likely to be present in, or added to, the environment during in situ bioremediation. Results indicated that the type of carbon source as well as the type of electron shuttle present influenced Cr(VI) reduction rates. Molasses stimulated Cr(VI) reduction more effectively than pure sucrose, presumably due to presence of more easily utilizable sugars, electron shuttling compounds or compounds with direct Cr(VI) reduction capabilities. Cr(VI) reduction rates increased with increasing concentration of anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonate (AQDS) regardless of the carbon source. The presence of iron minerals and their concentrations did not significantly influence Cr(VI) reduction rates. However, strain ES6 or AQDS could directly reduce surface-associated Fe(III) to Fe(II), which was capable of reducing Cr(VI) at a near instantaneous rate. These results suggest the rate limiting step in these systems was the transfer of electrons from strain ES6 to the intermediate or terminal electron acceptor whether that was Cr(VI), Fe(III), or AQDS.
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We report an unusual case of primary hypothalamic lymphoma with hypopituitarism presenting as Stiff-man syndrome (SMS). A 64-year-old man was hospitalized due to a 3-week history of general weakness, anorexia, vomiting, weight loss, and muscle pain and spasms precipitated by motion and tactile stimuli resulting in muscle stiffness and difficulty in mobility. Physical examination revealed normal sensorimotor function and reflexes, except for bitemporal visual field defect. Routine laboratory and gastrointestinal examinations provided no remarkable clues. Endocrine assessment revealed low levels of morning cortisol, thyroxine, and anterior pituitary hormones but an increase in prolactin level. The patient's muscle pain and stiffness improved dramatically within 2 days after hydrocortisone therapy and thyroxine replacement. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain confirmed an 18-mm enhancing hypothalamic tumor with optic chiasm involvement, which proved to be a B-cell lymphoma. The results of the extensive studies for systemic lymphoma were negative, suggesting a primary hypothalamic lymphoma. The tumor regressed completely and was invisible on MRI scan after adjuvant radiotherapy. The patient's condition was satisfactory and there was no recurrence of SMS during the 2-year follow-up period. This case demonstrated that primary hypothalamic lymphoma complicated with adrenal insufficiency may manifest as SMS. Early diagnosis and prompt intervention can lead to a favorable outcome and reduce morbidity.
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Enjoy a Sunday afternoon visiting several of the island's pubs and quenching your thirst with an assortment of flavored Commodore Perry beer and support Stein Hospice along the way. The Commodore Perry Pub Crawl will be from 2 to 7 p.m. Aug. 25. The crawl includes stops at the Boathouse, Round House, Frosty's, Mojito Bay and Put-in-Bay Brewing Company.
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Moonstone Villas is owned and operated by 4 partners and friends: Raelene (from Canada) and Anil, Ranjith, Ruwan (all Sri Lankan from Tangalle). They met after the tsunami in 2004 when Raelene came to Tangalle as a volunteer to build houses with Developing World Connections. Anil, Ranjith and Ruwan were helping with the rebuilding of their community and they have been doing this together as friends and with Developing World Connections ever since.
When Raelene decided to come to Tangalle, it seemed the time to create our partnership in Sri-Can Holdings (Private) Limited and combine our talents in developing Moonstone Villas.
You will meet partners Raelene and Anil during your stay at Moonstone Villas, as they each play a role in the managing of the day-to-day activities at Moonstone Villas. Anil, Ranjith, and Ruwan are from Tangalle, and can assist you in planning to see and do all the things that interest you, and can introduce you to many interesting things about Tangalle that are not in the tourist books.
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This is complete bullarky for the most prominent and powerful reason that obligating everyone to prevent your death is paramount to slavery, and while that seems a bit harsh, it ignores a host of reasons that include cultural, societal, religious, economic and intellectual differences, not to mention the simple concept of love and how that is anything but an evenly applied point of view in this world.
I don't love everyone in the world. I can't. I'm not capable. I might have some ethereal, half-assed affection for mankind, but I'll be damned if I meet a quarter of a tenth of a millionth of a fraction of its population. Being human no more engenders or obligates my love than should a search for a car leave every vehicle ever made as a possible purchase option. I don't need dump trucks, aircraft haulers or submersible car. I don't need Japanese micro-SUVs or Russian sedans. And to consider every vehicle implies I alone have the power, authority or even a role in committing my limited energies to.
I can't love everyone. Could I save the entire world from the ravages of disease, death and dismemberment, I'd offer that power to do just that. But I can't. Not only can I not do it, myself, but since I can't verify other people's motivations, I won't offer them my money to do it in my stead.
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What was common prior to the twentieth century? Rampant infant death, cancer, death, average life cycles of 40-45 years. What if we use those averages? Maybe African averages, where the average lifespan is early 20's?
Everyone dies. So will you. Because of that, you have very poor justification to take money from someone else to prevent your timely death. Why timely? Because there's nothing that slates how long you should live. Nothing. Not a law of averages, not humanism, not even the Bible. Nothing says a human must live ____ long.
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The typical arguments are that certain people by location, race or gender, have a higher propensity for death than those around them, and thus deserve or merit other people's money so that they, too, might live as long as everyone else.
In my own community, I'd provide full support to help people I know. With whom I commune every day. Whom I can have an impact in. And if I choose voluntarily to send money to little children in Africa I never meet, then it's my choice, and I can choose whom arbitrates that money, and can go see a direct impact my money has.
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Comfortable, stylish, and affordable. I've had my (first) pair for over a year now and it still looks great despite how much I've worn them. The sole still looks near brand new, at first glance you wouldn't even be able to tell they've been worn at all. The arch support is great, and the all around comfort of the shoe is just amazing. These bad boys are super durable, look stylish and clean with almost any outfit you pair them with (retro sneakers are simply timeless) and are affordable on almost any budget coming in around $60 on most websites. I accidentally got the wrong size on the first pair I bought and have them to a friend (who they fit perfect) and he pretty much says the same things I do about these shoes. They've become his favorite pair of kicks and he wears them any chance he has. All in all I can't recommend these shoes enough or say enough great things about them. I really hope these never fall out of production and Adidas continues to produce these with the quality standards they have thus far. Love you classic samba's. Never change. ... read more
As a football coach, I'm always looking for a comfortable boot. The Gloro's definitely surpassed expectations. Comfort, quality upper K-Leather (very soft top) with a nice feet + this is a premium boot. Love it! ... read more
They are probably the best boots you can buy now a days they're not all plasticky like other boots because they are proper leather I have had mine for over a year and they are still in perfect quality you have to give Adidas a pat on the back for this ... read more
Ordered two pairs of Gloro Boots both with personalisation. Boots delivered in rapid time. Quality is excellent. For me just as good as Copa Mundial Boot. Definitely recommend these boots. Very soft leather and super comfortable. If you're a Copa Mundial fan like me, these are every bit as good. Like slippers. ... read more
I got my Samba's for my 13th birthday back in like 2005 (i'm 23). Samba's are THE UTILITY SNEAKER! Everyday wear, pick-up games, lifting shoes whatever. Surprisingly one of my favorite shoes to commute via bicycle on because of the sole's ruggedness. These shoes have been with me through college, trips through the middle east, and i'm still wearing them today in the gym and around town. Dear Adidas, Thank you. P.S. If we could get some white colour on the gum sole, you'd make one happy boy. ... read more
I'm 5'6" 155 lbs. Size small fits perfectly. I was worried the legs were going to be too long but they're just right while zippered and even unzippered. They're warm enough to wear on cooler days and breathe enough to wear on warmer days. The material is perfect as it's easy to clean and keep clean. I haven't been able to find pants like these in several years and wasn't sure what to expect until they arrived. Only small downfall is the false pockets. I understand they are 'rain pants' but they do wear like regular pants. If you do remake these with pockets, I'll be the first customer. Bravo Adidas! Thank You for bringing these classics back! ... read more
Bought these boots a week ago and came in good time. Haven't tried them out yet on the pitch but look to be good, only thing I would say is that because they are leather they are likely to stretch after wearing them a few times so would get 1/2 size bigger next time. ... read more
Lovely quality boot for the price however if I was to buy this boot again I would definitely go 1/2 a size down because I like the snug fit feel, when you go for the size based on the adidas size table there is a slight but noticeable feeling that there is room for your foot to move around in the boot which I feel gives you less control when playing. Overall though I would definitely recommend this boot! ... read more
Having bought these online without trying them on based on the other reviews, I was very pleased with how comfortable the boots were. They are probably the most comfortable football boots I have worn in my 20 years of playing the game. The leather is very soft and helps with touch and close control. I would highly recommend these boots, they also look great when personalised. ... read more
Probably the most comfortable boots I've ever owned. Leather is very soft and fits around my foot perfectly. Fits similarly to the Copa Mundials but I feel like the base is much firmer and offers much more support ... read more
The shirt is great quality and looks fantastic, loving the Solar Red trim. The personalised printing is done well using the correct typeface. My son was very pleased with the result and couldn't wait to wear it to training. Overall we were both very happy and I would recommend the shirt and Adidas customer service for their help when I ordered the item. ... read more
Let's keep this simple - the fit was perfect for me (size 7) and the boots are very comfortable. Worn them a few times now and seem to be wearing ok. Performance-wise they are light and offer a good touch with good grip. Love them so far. ... read more
An incredibly comfy boot, but the width is far too narrow. I am using an 11, but a 10 .5 should be big enough if the boots were wider. I am still in 2 minds whether I should keep them. It is so good to be able to get a boot, that does not look like it has been attacked by a graffiti artist, but the narrowness of the boot, my consign the boots for the return label. ... read more
Best indoor football boots around apparently. My first thoughts are that they do appear to be a great purchase if you are looking for some football boots to play indoor football. You can feel the quality as soon as you put them on they are very comfortable and made from soft leather so they should fit like a glove and should loosen up a bit after a few more games of wearing them. At £80 they are not cheap but I suppose quality costs and managed to get 20% off them with a recent adidas promotion, so look out for future promotions to get them at an even better price! ... read more
Comfort, grip, touch, and power. I highly recommend you hit the Adidas Employee store and drop the $55. I just might pick up a second pair to last me forever. These grip better than nubby turfs shoes on turf fields with the black rubber in them. I did not slip once even on some of the more 'rubbery' spots of the pitch. The Boost sole is great for those harder Futsal surfaces. My feet and knees thank me for it. I actually would give these 4.5 stars instead of 5 due to the fact that the foot bed is too narrow and pinches on the sides of my feet. I assume once these break in a bit they will be fine. The toe box is perfect. The laces do tend to come untied, make sure you double knot them nice and tight. GET THESE NOW ... read more
Great: +light +great ball-feel across the top of the shoe +low profile +tacky bottom for ball control Not as great: -stock laces come undone too easy, even after double-knotting. Will probably swap them for AMO Customs -the Boost adds to the price and not to the performance...I was really hoping these would make for great, shock-absorbing street boots -this is a 'knock' against all the new Boost indoor shoes...too narrow. I tried the X15.1, the Messi 15.1 and the mi X 15.1 CT. Everything is so narrow now. -even though this was wide enough in the toe-box, my foot was still being "squeezed" from the sides. I don't know what's going on or if Adidas has different foot models they use now but their shoes are too tight. I supposed if I was wearing the new compression Prime Knit I would understand but these synthetic shoes are going to take forever to break in. My only suggestion is not to order online but to try them out in person. And don't buy too big just to negate the narrow feeling...you will hinder your touch in a longer boot. ... read more
What a fantastic jersey! As soon as i got it I felt like a kid on Christmas Day. Adidas have really brought out the big guns in terms of quality and feel of the material. I will be buying a shirt every season now! And the shipping was extremely fast. THANK YOU ADIDAS! ... read more
Very comfortable shoe with a reasonable weight so striking ball over distance is easy. The soft leather forefoot makes for a good first touch and helps with measuring weight when spraying passes from the centre of the field. Due to the wide fit and K-leather toe-box the shoe requires no break in time. ... read more
I've been looking for a pair of Black and White Gloro for a little while now and checked the usual sites for boots. Found my size on the Adidas site, the process was really smooth, I was kept right up to date on the delivery and everything that was promised was fulfilled. The boots are top drawer, I've had a knee op and needed to get some boots that were going to be suitable for the 3G/ artificial as well as turf. I had to be specific as I'd torn my meniscus after an ACL recon previously, blades get stuck in the turf and caused problems. The Gloros are perfect. For anyone whose had knee problems in the past it's a boot that works for artificial, the stud means the boots don't get stuck in the ground so don't encourage twisting of the knee. Really really pleased with the product, the process was spot on. Scored in my first game as well, so far so good!! On size, I've got wide feet, I bought a size ten, so they feel quite narrow at the moment, but I know from having copas in the past they do open up, so I'm hoping they give a little. ... read more
it's very hard to find decent fitting women's shorts that aren't showing your butt, so I have to get men's short which are usually too big and bulky. These are actually pretty nice. They are a touch long, and a little too wide, but that's to be expected as a woman buying men's shorts. they are very comfortable and work well out on the soccer fields. ... read more
Boots will require a bit of wearing in. I have wide feet(2E) and they molded to my feet after a few wears. Very light for a k leather boot. When choosing a size it is slightly smaller than normal. I normally wear US9 with a bit of room at the front. i bought US8.5 in the boot and its just right (might be tight for some) ... read more
Massively impressed with the grip from this outsole. Played on artificial grass, turf, and even hard ground natural grass. Whether wet or dry I cannot complain about the grip. Cut as hard as I ever do last night and still held up perfectly. With where I live and play I'm not sure i'll ever need a different sole. I can only hope and pray that Adidas keeps making boots with this sole. As for the boot - it's a leather upper and a bit snug for its size, but with leather that's EXACTLY what I want. It's moulding nicely to my foot. Good price point for an excellent shoe. I expect it to last me a good few years. ... read more
It was time to finally buy a new pair of boots & would of loved a new pair of pred's but with the new style of predator boot it was not to be! It had to be a pair of Gloro's! Only worn them once straight out of the box for 6 aside on 5G pitch. Very comfortable, good fit, the toe area is slightly bigger than my old pred's which is not a bad thing. I can easily wear 2 pairs of socks with these boots which is a bonus. I would definitely recommend the Gloro's to anyone looking for a new pair of boots, especially fans of pred's! ... read more
I purchased a new MUFC shirt and personalised the name and number for my sons 21st birthday. the shirt came in a box which was un expected, very well protected and perfect and better price than on the high street as the name and number were free. very pleased. ... read more
There name sums these boots up in one word ACE! There the best boots I've ever worn the leather gives these boots a traditional feel to the ball but with all the lightweight qualities of a modern boot! ... read more


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That's because examination of nominating petitions suggests McCotter's staff routinely copied signatures to meet the filing threshold for his re-election campaigns. The technique finally caught the eye of a secretary of state contract worker this year, and McCotter was disqualified from the 2012 ballot.
Attorney General Bill Schuette noted in bringing charges against four members of the McCotter staff that evidence suggested the same thing may have happened in 2008. The Michigan Information & Research Service, which covers the state capital in detail, checked copies of 2010 petitions this week and found only 496 signatures out of 2,000 that were not part of duplicated forms.
Examination of other years by the firm Practical Political Consulting, which copies petitions as it builds voter lists, shows the duplication strategy probably began in 2006 and grew with each succeeding election. (A congressional candidate needs 1,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot.)
The McCotter disgrace is just one part of a pattern of candidate malfeasance that has afflicted Michigan this year. It's certainly hard to take Republican complaints about voter fraud seriously when candidate fraud keeps grabbing the headlines.
The other example, of course, is the chicanery this spring when a state representative switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party at the last minute, while simultaneously scheming to get a sham Democrat on the ballot who would present no obstacle to his election in November -- with Republican Speaker of the House Jase Bolger acting as a fellow conniver and cheerleader. Although the Kent County prosecutor declined to file charges, Rep. Roy Schmidt and Bolger's machinations represent a low point in Michigan electoral ethics.
The state House voted unanimously Wednesday to require incumbents to file two weeks earlier than non-incumbents from here on out. That will make it virtually impossible to game the ballot the way Schmidt did, and the Senate should follow suit as quickly as possible.
Such measures are needed these days because damage to democracy is not coming from an occasional illegal voter (a 1 in 15 million happenstance, according to a recent report from a Carnegie-Knight investigative project). It's coming from politicians who pick their voters through gerrymandered districts, who can't be bothered to follow rules on something as relatively routine as nominating petitions, and who drum up fake candidates to shift the vote in their favor.
McCotter has already resigned and vanished from the public eye, leaving a lot of soured constituents behind in a district that was tailored for his re-election. There's no way to fix the harm done here, but his name should always carry an asterisk:
Thaddeus McCotter, Michigan congressman, 2003-2012*
* At least two terms probably served under false pretenses


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Oregon's headed to the Bg Dance! This March holds new meaning for We, the Oregon Faithful as Lightning Yellow and Thunder Green, will take to the hardwood this coming Thursday in a first round match-up with familiar foe, BYU. Amidst the tension surrounding the moments leading up to Selection Sunday, head coach Dana Altman took a step closer to landing one of the top guards in the class of 2015, Jaquan Lyle (5-Star/Huntington, WV/Rivals100).
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Teaching the history of wine to Millennials
Drove up to St. Helena yesterday on a preternaturally beautiful day to have lunch with Freemark Abbey's longtime winemaker, Ted Edwards, at a little restaurant I'd never eaten at before, Goose & Gander. I must say I'd go back for the charcuterie and beef tartare, both of which were excellent.
I don't typically drink before driving—and I had the usual long schlep back to Oakland—but since Ted was pouring his Viognier, I made an exception. What a nice wine. Ted told me his story, and the tale of the winery's Bosché Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, which goes back decades. I asked him if the Bosché is the oldest still-extant bottling of a vineyard-designated wine in Napa Valley.
We both thought for a moment, then almost simultaneously we blurted out "Martha's Vineyard," the quintessential Heitz Cabernet that dates back to (I think) 1966. After that, we couldn't come up with other candidates. Can you? That led us to a conversation about history, new consumers and messaging. How do you educate a younger consumer about an older brand, without sounding like you're a crusty old curmudgeon reliving his glory days to a youngster who doesn't really care?
This is the dilemma faced by dozens of Napa Valley producers whose roots date back to the 1960s and 1970s. You have to stay relevant. You can't coast on your laurels (although some try), because the demographic that's familiar with your laurels is close to 70. But convincing a Millennial that history is important also is tough. We all know, anecdotally, that younger people are remarkably ill-informed about history. This must be because they don't think it matters. It's also why large tracts of the media have been reduced to writing about "the new [fill-in-the-blank]," the hippest this-or-that, the top ten trendiest blah-blah, up-and-coming whatevers, and so on. Publishers understand (or think they do) that younger consumers only care about the here-and-now, so that's what they push. History tends to get thrown out, like that disposable baby with the bathwater. It's sad, to many of us who believe that history is an essential component of the wine-enjoying experience. But what you are gonna do?
Why did I write that "history is an essential component of the wine-enjoying experience"? Because wine is so much more than merely what you're experiencing in the mouth. As Matt Kramer points out in his latest column, there are "wines of pleasure" and "wines of experience," the latter "deliver[ing] that sort of dimensionality, which, after all, is the distinguishing feature of all truly great wines…". I would suggest that one of those "dimensions" is the intellectual one of understanding the vineyard's and winery's history. We tend to create a difference between "intellectual" and "sensory" pleasures that's not really true. Any baseball fan knows that a huge part of the interest in watching a great ball game transcends what's happening on the field to encompass statistics, strategy, the great plays and players of the past, the rivalry between the two games, and the sweet nostalgia of youthful memories of sand lots and bleacher seats. The appreciation of baseball is multi-dimensional.
As educators, we owe it to the next generation of wine lovers to pass on the history, traditions and tales of this wine business we love so well. This is the essence of the fabled "story-telling" that wineries are so engaged with lately. Winemakers understand that the appreciation of wine is so much more than just the organoleptic or analytical part. And thank goodness for that. In the 1980s budding wine aficionados thought they had to master an entire set of tasting skills in order to appreciate wine—as if they were preparing for an Enology class in sensory analysis at U.C. Davis. I always thought that was nonsense, as if you had to be able to deconstruct and then reconstruct a car in order to love driving it.
Fortunately, we've matured as a wine-drinking nation to the point where we understand that wine appreciation is, as Matt suggests, multi-dimensional. Still, I do wonder, and worry, about that non-appreciation of history among so many younger people. We just have to make the learning of history more tantalizing, by telling our stories better, don't we?
A tale of two bars: dives and tasting rooms
1. Is the dive bar doomed?
I have two images in my head of the classic American dive bar. One is from the movies, where so many scenes of intrigue, drama and violence have occurred in them. I think of the Silver Bullet, the bar in Thelma and Louise, for example, with its country & western band, pool table and cowboy drifters chugging beer from the bottle. (You'd never order wine in such a place!)
The other image I have is from my own past. There used to be a place in San Francisco, South of Market, in Clementina Alley, which in the Eighties was not the yuppified haven it is now. It was called, for a variety of reasons, the Headquarters. On any given night you'd have drag queens and businessmen, Pacific Heights doyennes and dudes in leather chaps, hippies and hustlers and young straight couples out slumming, all playing pool or darts, or dancing on the postage stamp-sized dance floor to Blondie's Rapture. I once brought Marilyn, who found it amusing, but, on emerging from the rest room, remarked that she should have brought her hip boots. That was the Diviest. Dive. Bar. Ever.
The dive bar played a role in America's mythic development. The old saloons of the Wild West were dive bars, and so were the shadowy joints of film noir, if we go by Wikipedia's definition: "Dive bars:disreputable, sinister, or even a detriment to the community." Or, in Playboy's view, "A church for down-and-outers and those who romanticize them, a rare place where high and low rub elbows—bums and poets, thieves and slumming celebrities. It's a place that wears its history proudly."
Yet last Friday's San Francisco Chronicle headlined on its front page, "In boom time for booze joints, is it dive bar's last call?" (The online version is headlined "Is it last call for dive bars in San Francisco?") It seems that with rising rents and shifting demographics, dive bars are an endangered species, especially in neighborhoods like The Mission, SOMA and even to some extent the Tenderloin, that used to be their strongholds. I frankly doubt that the dive bar will go the way of the dodo bird, but the situation in San Francisco does bring to the fore a certain gentrification process that seems to be hitting many of our cities. Old-fashioned dives are turning into fancy little cocktail bars; bartenders are being replaced by tattooed "mixologists" for whom an appearance in The Tasting Panel is their Red Carpet; whiskey rocks has morphed into elaborate concoctions of flavored spirits, sweet liqueurs, bitters, candied fruits and sugar. Dashiell Hammett is turning in his grave. For that matter, so is Herb Caen.
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2. My gig at K-J's tasting room bar
When I gave a little talk to the Kendall-Jackson tasting room staff a while back, and I told them I'd never worked a tasting room, they very kindly invited me to work in theirs! I thought it was a splendid idea, so we made a date, and on Saturday I drove up and did a six-hour stint.
I was as nervous as an opening night understudy as I "went on" but the truth is, there was nothing to be scared of. I quickly learned that all you have to do is be yourself. And since I'm a pretty sociable guy, I had lots of great conversations, always including but not necessarily exclusively about wine.
The visitors are from all over the place, America as well as abroad, but the main thing they had in common was that they're happy to be in wine country, at a winery they like, on a beautiful summer day. When you're with happy people it rubs off. I met a Dad from Atlanta who was taking his daughter on a tour of California after she graduated college. I met a surgeon from U.C. San Francisco Medical Center and his wife and baby. I met a pair of chiropractors who told me about nervous system health. There were several folks from my home town of Oakland—even from my neighborhood. I met a family of Cuban-Americans from Miami who love wine and cigars. There was a woman from Canada and a young couple from Silicon Valley. And on and on. People have such amazing stories. Wine-wise, they all have different tastes, of course. Some only like sweeter wines, like Muscat Canelli. Some don't like Pinot Noir, some shy away from Cabernet Sauvignon. G-S-M is new to almost all of them. Most are eager to learn, and of course one does one's best to share information with them in a respectful manner. It being a Saturday, in this last gasp of summer, the tasting room was very crowded..
One thing I noticed is that sometimes people are shy about asking questions about wine. You don't want to lecture them in a high-handed way; you want to respect their privacy and personal space. So it's a balancing act: you infer when it's appropriate to talk about the wine and, if so, to what degree. With most of the people, I found that even the reticent ones opened up once the conversation got flowing, and then their wine questions and observations came out. As I've always instinctively known, but have to constantly remind myself, there are no dumb questions about wine.
Fake wine? Nothing new
Everybody's shocked, shocked about what Rudi Kurwanian did, but faking wine is nothing new. Below is an extract from Cato the Elder (234 BC-149 BC), a Roman statesman, on how to fake Coan wine—a wine that should have been made from grapes grown on the island of Kos, but that, as Cato points out, can be fabricated using cheap Italian grapes. The addition of all the salt water was because Coan wine apparently was salty, perhaps like Manzanilla sherry.
"If you wish to make Coan wine (Cato says), take water from the deep sea on a calm and windless day, seventy days before the vintage, from a place where no fresh water can reach. When you have drawn it from the sea, pour it into a vat. Do not fill the vat, but leave an empty space of five amphorae [about 30 gallons]. Cover up the vat, but leave a space for the sea water to breathe. After thirty days, rack it off cleanly into another vat, leaving its sediment. After another twenty days, rack it again and leave it till the vintage.
"Leave the grapes from which you intend to make your Coan wine on the vines, and let them be thoroughly cooked and ripened. When it has rained and dried up again, pick them and expose them to the sun for two or three days out of doors if there is no rain, or if there is rain set them out on hurdles under cover, and pick off any moldy berries. Then pour ten amphorae of your sea water into a fifty-amphorae cask. Then remove the berries from the stalks and press them down into the cask with your hand until it is full, so that they may soak up the sea water. When you have filled the cask, close it, leaving a small space for the air to pass. After three days, take the grapes out of the cask, press them and store the wine in good, clean, dry casks.
"That it may have a good bouquet, do as follows: Take a pitched potsherd and put on it a glowing live coal, perfume it with various scents to be found at the perfumery, put it in a cask and cover it up, so that the fragrance may not escape before you put it in the wine. Do this the day before you rack your wine into the cask. Transfer your wine from the press to the cask as quickly as possible and leave it for fifteen days with a cover, leaving an air space, and then seal it up. Forty days later you will bottle it in amphorae, adding to each amphora a forty-eighth part of must boiled down to one half. Do not fill the amphora above the point where the handles start. Put your amphorae out in the sun in a place where there is no grass, cover them so that no moisture can get in, and do not leave them in the sun more than four days. Then remove them to the cellar."
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So you see, counterfeiting wine is just about as old as wine itself.
By the way, speaking of the Ancients, when they described their wine, in their treatises and poems, they didn't use the kind of language we do today, which is of comparatively recent derivation. (I mean the analogies to fruits and flowers, and talk of acidity and tannins and oak.) Our winespeak would have puzzled them, perhaps even appalled them, as hopelessly mean and barbarian. They saw wine as a gift of the gods, and when they wrote of it, they tried to grasp—sometimes with success—its essential mystery as well as its divine properties. They did not attempt to describe what wine tasted like (as we do) so much as what drinking it felt like (as we do not). Here, for example, is Bacchylides, a Greek poet who lived around the time of Socrates and Alexander the Great, on a certain wine:
"Sweet compulsion flowing from the wine warms the heart, and hope of Love returned, all mingled with the gifts of Dionysus darts through the brain, sending the thoughts of men to heights supreme. Straightway it overthrows the battlements of cities, and every man dreams that he is heir to a throne. With gold, yea, and ivory, his house is gleaming, and wheat-laden ships bring him from Egypt over the flashing sea, wealth beyond count. Thus does the drinker's heart leap with fancies."
Are we better off with "notes of blackberries and cherries"? Not really. But we're stuck with it, for the time being.
Thinking of Tchelistcheff on the 20th anniversary of his death
Can it really have been 20 years since André Tchelistcheff died?
I met and interviewed the man they call The Maestro a couple times, in my guise as a reporter, although I can't claim to have known him well. His heavily Russian-inflected English could be hard to understand, especially on the phone, but he was unfailingly polite, in an Old World, almost Victorian way; more importantly, he was the foremost mentor to several generations of winemakers. It's amazing how often his name comes up in conversation even today.
To me, as an historian, André's greatest achievement was bringing a European sensibility of winemaking to the industry, at a time—the 1930s through the 1970s—when that's what was most needed. When he came, famously, to Beaulieu, in 1938, America still had its rear wheels stuck in the muck of Prohibition. What few Americans there were who actually drank wine had little besides ersatz "Sauternes," "Port," "Sherry," "Vermouth" and unidentifiable bottles with proprietary names, like Don Juan and Mission Bell, to choose from.
One of the best ways to appreciate a historical person's contributions is through the eyes of his contemporaries. Here, we're fortunate that Tchelistcheff's advent on the scene occurred at the same time as an explosion of wine books. (The two phenomena are not unrelated!) In 1948 the Chicago journalist Julian Street, in the second edition of his book "Wines," praised Beaulieu's George [sic] de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon—Tchelistcheff's crowning glory—as "stepping up into another class," while he called the Pinot Noir "among the best of its type." Pinot Noir was (I think it's fair to say) Tchelistcheff's own personal favorite variety, probably due to its challenge. He told the lawyer and amateur wine lover, Robert Benson (who quoted him in the latter's 1977 book, "Great Winemakers of California"), that he, Tchelistcheff, had produced only three "high standard" Pinot Noirs in 35 years: the 1946, 1947 and 1968, successes he deemed "accidental" although, of course, they were no accidents; but Tchelistcheff appears at that time not to have realized exactly what he had done right.
Eleven years after Street's little book, Alec Waugh (Evelyn's older brother) authored "In Praise of Wine," a book so dismissive of California wine that he relegated coverage of it to two pages in the appendix. Even so, Waugh managed to mention a handful of wineries he did "greatly enjoy," and Beaulieu was one of them. By 1973, when the founder of the Wine Institute, Leon Adams, wrote his influential "The Wines of America," he was able to state definitively that BV Private Reserve had become "the single most-praised and most-sought after American wine."
Why did experts like it so much? We can only begin to guess what Private Reserve tasted like young. Michael Broadbent sipped a 1941 Private Reserve (from a celebrated vintage) in 1972; the then 31-year old wine was "extremely rich…with [an] extended finish," and despite this rather abbreviated review, Broadbent awarded it 4 stars. But a few years later, he added a coveted fifth star to the 1946 Private Reserve, which Tchelistcheff himself had poured for him at a tasting; "the '46," Broadbent wrote, clearly in ecstasy, "was a great wine by any standards, perhaps Tchelistcheff's supreme masterpiece."
It was this accomplishment—the ability to make wine so good that even a confirmed Europhile like Broadbent would swoon in its presence—that was André's great contribution to California wine.
By the 1990s, well into his own Nineties, André's best days were behind him. He died in 1994, his intellect and humor intact. As Rod Smith reminds us (in "Private Reserve," published by Beaulieu in its centenary year, 2000): "Just before [Tchelistcheff] died, he exclaimed, 'We still don't know what kind of rootstock is right for Carneros!'"
It was that unflagging drive to know, to perfect, to achieve that marked André Tchelistcheff. He was among the first to understand that Napa Valley's temperature gradient between Carneros, in the south, and Calistoga, in the north, mandated the planting of different grape varieties—an axiom so fundamental to our knowledge of Napa Valley today that it's hard to fathom that it was not always known. His work with Pinot Noir has never yet been fully acknowledged. His background as a technologist showed in his never-ending experiments with different kinds of fermentation techniques, including the malolactic. Robert Mondavi, who loved him, has written (in "Harvests of Joy") how he "often turned to André for advice" after launching Robert Mondavi Winery, and paid The Maestro the supreme compliment of calling him "one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American wine making." André also put his stamp on stylistic matters. His remark (to Benson) that "oak in the bottle is nothing else but seasoning" and accompanying criticism that "Some people overdo it [oak]" surely were prescient and have been echoed by latter-day aficiendos of balance.
André himself wrote what could perhaps be his epitaph, although he meant it as praise, not for himself, but for Benson's book: in its Preface, he called the book "full of depth, full of reflections of winemakers struggling to open the gates to tomorrow." Those words easily describe André Tchelistcheff's own triumphant struggle: if we now stand in tomorrow, it is because we have walked through the gates André opened for us what seems like just yesterday.
These days, a man's place is definitely in the kitchen
But it wasn't always. If you came of age before the era of Emeril Lagasse, Bobby Flay and Mario Batali, you might be surprised to learn that, until comparatively recently, men were considered genetically and temperamentally unfit to cook.
That was certainly true when I was a little boy. Mom's place was in the kitchen. Dad's place was in front of the T.V., there to remain until Mom announced, "Dinner's ready." The only time dads were allowed to cook was in the backyard, over the barbecue.
I was reminded of all this when I bought a book in one of our great used bookstores in Oakland. "Cooks, Gluttons and Gourmets" was written by Betty Watson and published in 1962–well before the modern era of cooking began. Fifty one years ago, "cuisine" in America meant French food, snootily served in restaurants with heavy red leather banquettes. Italian meant lasagna, Chinese meant chop suey, Jewish meant corned beef, and that was that. It was the age of iceberg lettuce and frozen T.V. dinners. And nobody had ever heard of Julia Child.
In the 1960s that began to change, albeit quite slowly at first. "It was the popularity of outdoor barbecues that led most American husbands to take an interest in cookery," Watson writes. "While the kitchen had come to be regarded as woman's sphere from frontier days onward, cooking out of doors was different. It reminded grown men of Boy Scout days when they roasted hot dogs over campfires. [!!!] Building up a good fire in the charcoal grill was thoroughly masculine. So was the cooking of a steak."
We've come a long way, babycakes! Building a good fire always makes me feel more masculine.
Yet Watson, in her research for the book, was "astonish[ed]…to learn…that cooking in ancient Greece was regarded as an art and cooks were men of stature." For emphasis, she adds, "Men, yes–note that." Citing Athenaeus, a second century Greek writer, she refers to his masterwork, Deipnosophistae, in which he "mentions by name twenty authors of cookery books and not one by a woman."
(Incidentally, here's one of Athenaneus's recipes, for Gastris, a sweet nut cake:
Ingredients: 100g each of poppy seeds, ground walnuts, ground hazelnuts and ground almonds; 100g of dried and stoned dates and dried figs; 150g sesame seeds; 75g clear honey; 1/2 tsp ground black pepper; Olive Oil .
Chop the dates and figs then place in a pan with 30ml of the honey, 4 tbsp water and a little olive oil. Bring to a gentle simmer, cover and cook for about 10 minutes, or until the fruits are soft. Take off the heat and allow to cool, then turn into a mortar and pound in the ground poppy seeds, walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds and black pepper until your have a smooth, thick, dough-like paste. Turn into a pan and cook until the dough is thick and of a consistency that can be rolled out. Roll out the fruit and nut paste and cut into squares. Heat the remaining honey in a pan, dip the fruit and nut paste in this then coat in the sesame seeds.)
Men were the chefs to royalty for most of history, and even royalty took a turn in the kitchen. Peter the Great "would often go into the kitchens to knead bread dough with his own hands or pour cheese into molds," Watson writes. Thomas Jefferson was as interested in food and cooking as he was in wine. Watson tells us he introduced spaghetti into the Americas, was "the first to serve French fries with beefsteak" (and we can imagine that at one time French fries were considered special), "the first to use vanilla as a flavoring," and "learned to make ice cream while in France, writing down the recipe in his own hand…He imported olive trees" and grew "many rare vegetables such as broccoli and asparagus." Once in the White House, he "personally supervised the planning of state dinners." Can you imagine a modern U.S. President being a foodie? He'd be mercilessly mocked, especially by Fox News.
When did men drop out of the kitchen? It seems to have been a by-product of the Industrial Age and of the rise of American capitalism. The man was expected to leave the home early in the morning, work all day, and come home, late and hungry. The little woman was expected to remain barefoot and in the kitchen, and have dinner ready for her man. (See almost any episode of "Mad Men" with Betty Draper in it.) This model remained the dominant one throughout the first half, even the first two-thirds of the twentieth century.
By the 1980s, it definitely had changed. Why? Historians of American culture will have the last word on that. Certainly the re-entry of the man into the kitchen paralleled the rise of the boutique winery movement in California. I can't prove it, but I suspect the two were related.
Wine writer? Historian? Blogger? All the above–and more
When Merry Edwards asked me to introduce her at her induction Feb. 18 for the Vintners Hall of Fame, my first question was "Why me?" I was obviously honored, but really had no idea why Merry selected yours truly.
Her reply: "Because you're an historian."
Well, my reaction was, "I'm a wine critic." I didn't say that, but the thought instantly rose in my head. Somehow, Merry calling me "an historian" seemed to cast my role as a wine critic into a secondary light. And I take being a wine critic very seriously: rating and reviewing wine is the essence of what I do for a living.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized how silly that thought was. After all, Merry knows me, not just as someone who reviews her wines, but as the author of A Wine Journey along the Russian River and New Classic Winemakers of California, in which she has her own chapter. So to Merry, I'm as much an historian as I am a critic.
And then it occurred to me: Why do we pigeonhole ourselves into categories anyway? Critic–historian–writer–journalist–blogger–these are all part and parcel of what I do. They're just words for the totality of my love for, and interest in, wine and writing.
Actually, in terms of which came first, Merry's right: I was an historian of wine well before I was a wine critic. I mean, in the sense that I'd made reading about the history of wine a consuming interest in my life by the late 1970s, ten years before I was ever paid to write about wine. I'm glad that, by the time I took wine writing on as a career, I'd built up a very extensive knowledge of wine history through the reading of books. That gave me a basis later on for making qualitative judgments about wine. I was able to understand that wine is (among other things) a hierarchy. There is nothing fundamentally democratic about wine, other than the fact that anyone can drink it. (Thank goodness.) Wine always has been about elitism: if you were wealthy you could afford to drink better wine than a poor man, because it costs money to produce a quality wine. It did when the Caesars had their favorites (which presumably few others could buy), and it still does. In fact, the history of Western civilization can largely be told through the spread of wine from its ancestral homeland somewhere in the Caucasus up the river valleys of Europe and, thence, to the New World.
It frightens me to think that there probably are wine "critics" out there right now–blogging away–who don't possess a single good book on wine. Worse yet: it frightens me that there are wine writers whose chief resource is Google. I can't imagine anything more contrary to the spirit of wine to have someone send you a sample of, say, a Muscadet, and then Google it in order to know what you're drinking. This isn't because there's anything fundamentally wrong with a quick Internet search. I use Google all the time. But I use my library more. Why is a real library "better" (in every sense I can think of) than Google? Because I have inhaled my wine books until their information informs my DNA like genetic code. The patient acquisition of detailed knowledge, lovingly and painstakingly assembled over many years, can't possibly be compared to a quick Google search. That is an insult to all great wine writers, living or dead.
And so I gratefully acceded to Merry's request. To put her contributions in wine into historical perspective (and let us hope Merry's career extends as far forward into the future as it does into the past), one must know the history, not only of California wine, but of world wine in general. One must understand, also, how Merry sees her own place in history (which is the purpose of the pre-interview). The history of wine involves elements from almost every aspect of human study, from anthropology to chemistry to religion to gender studies. It's so much more than "Here's what I think."