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who do you think will fail out of these 3? place the bets
oh and what are you re thoughts on these games ,i personally think it is good that x-com related games come out ,good variety in a short time
who do you think will fail out of these 3? place the bets
oh and what are you re thoughts on these games ,i personally think it is good that x-com related games come out ,good variety in a short time
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Likely none. Maybe the FPS, though Firaxis' game may generate enough hype about the IP that it can ride on the coattails.
to be honest i think they will all do well - to be honest i think its great 3 games are coming out so close to each other - its like waiting for a bus and 3 turn up at the same time.
Xcom enemy unknown will be the smash hit in my own opinion and i reckon will be a contender for game of the year.
I think xenonauts will do well but undoubtablly xcom enemy unknown will steal a lot of its thunder but a lot of the hardcore xcoms fans will support it.
as for the fps xcom - firstly should xcom be a fps - well not really but i am open to new things - however i have looked deeply in to the title and there are some intresting ideas there - i think the developers knew there were some things that were not right and have rightly delayed it to address those issues.Will i buy yet? - yes but i will wait till i read a review of the game before i do - xcom enemy unknown i have already preordered - xenonauts - again i will wait for the review.
I would probably go for the FPS X-COM as the most likely to fail.. although I would enjoy a good X-COM FPS/TPS with a good squad command, fleshed out cover system and squad abilities and set in the same timeline as the tactical X-COM: Enemy Unknown Fot this TPS they could copy solutions from the ME3 in terms of combat.. It's "casual" friendly
Not sure about XCOM:EU stealing anyone's thunder. News of it has caused a surge in Xenonaut pre-orders from my understanding. Not sure if that's because some folks actually like a lot of the old mechanics, or people just have X-COM fever, but regardless, I'm glad to see the indie doing well.
i had my doubts but out of all the 3 i now think firaxis x-com will do the best out of the 3 ,well good news we get 3 x-com with 3 dif playstyles
I have not heard of xenonauts or xcom:fps until I came here. Of all 3, xcom:eu probably will get more publicity. Xcom:fps is the least interesting, there's tons of fps out there. Xcom:eu is unique, its using 3d to its full advantage with gorgeous looking levels and characters. It also has an updated gameplay which interests me. If only its designed for 10 soldier cap, it would be perfect!
I'm expecting Xenonauts to sell the least. It doesn't have a huge marketing budget or PR team. It's got soul, and good word of mouth. But it's not going to sell like hotcakes the same way XCOM EU likely will. Fortunately it doesn't need to, since its budget is so much smaller.
XCOM EU will probably sell oodles due to the Firaxan pedigree and the intelligently done PR push.
The FPS, despite how much the existing fanbase dislikes it, will probably sell simply because the FPS market is much bigger than the strategy game market. This is a two edged sword in that while the market is much larger, it's also competing against Call of Duty and other billion dollar franchises though, so I expect it to fall below what the 2k executives are hoping for.
The way the games are shaping up, when I want to scratch that X-COM itch, I'll look to Xenonauts. When I want something fun but not too serious or cerebral, X-COM:EU will probably fit the bill (though I still hope mods can chunk it out). Probably won't even bother with the FPS, unless they give you some really innovative strategic and tactical elements that I haven't seen in an FPS before.
As far as sales, X-COM:EU will likely do the best, followed by the FPS. Xenonauts won't compare to either, because of it's budget, and because no aspect of it was designed for mass appeal.
UFO extraterrestrials 2 would be releasing around fall this year too if im not mistaken. Their official website says they pushed back release to fall this year. Jake and the devs of both xenonauts and extraterrestrials probably had they're annual trekkie meeting earlier this year and decided to release at about the same time.
Despite the abhorrent move to use the xcom name for nothing but free PR, the FPS after its latest revamp actually looks like it will be an interesting game.
With the right marketing, heart and luck I think it could be a good series if it manages to show us the developers are creative in gameplay if not in marketing.
The other two will do fine. EU is the direct spiritual sequel created BECAUSE of the outcry against the FPS, and Xenonauts has always been made as a modernized x-com update.
One is a "blockbuster" with higher budget and pedigree, the other is a sprite based affair and both are changing the way things were done in the first x-com. They will do fine.
I think the FPS is the most likely to "fail." Note that this is only going off of the released info and they have been quiet on the FPS for awhile so it could be getting an update to bring it more in-line with being a true XCOM game. But as of right now the FPS has nothing to do with the XCOM IP excluding a few token references and it is in the FPS market. This means that it is in a very competative market and the currently released information has greatly angered (to put it nicely) a lot of XCOM fans. The angering of fans is going to generate bad PR via word-of-mouth and online reviews of the current data, which means that fans of XCOM are far less likely to buy the game and those that might have been interested in the game are less likely to buy the game given the fans (of XCOM) comments about it. After all given the economy why should someone spend their money on something they don't know anything about when those that know about that IP are saying it is a bad direction and that they won't buy it?
Nah. We've already seen a few high profile FPS flop. Bulletstorm anyone? Which was a shame, because that was a fun game. Crude but funny dialogue. Prey wasn't a huge success, Haze was pretty much a flop. Not to mention the sea of crushed dreams of failed no name games.
FPS =/= success.
I don't think any of them need to "fail," necessarily. Myself, I'm not terribly concerned with the business aspect of any of this (not to mention I'm too ill-informed about the business side of the videogame industry to do more than wildly speculate.) I can speak about my own feelings on the three games, however.
Of course, I'm very interested to see how Xenonauts turns out. At the very least, I think it's important to support the indie developers when they're putting out something that relates to my interests as a gamer. I don't necessarily see them as "competing" with any of the XCom games, however.
Just because, personally, there's few enough good turn-based strategy games that I rarely have to choose between which ones I'm going to be playing.
Enemy Unknown really has me excited, though. As much as I like the idea of Xenonauts, I think it's going to be nice to see a AAA developer tackle this IP. The way I look at it, Xenonauts has the "faithful update" pretty well covered. So I see it as a good thing that Firaxis is putting their own stamp on the tweaks and changes they're making with this outing.
Frankly, I have more respect that Firaxis is sticking to their guns and making the game they want to make, and feel passionate about, instead of making something just to try and make "us" happy (to the degree that it'd even be possible to please every one of the old-timer X-Com fanbase anyway.) They're putting their own mark on the game, and re-imagining it in their own image - and I think that's a good thing.
The XCom FPS is something that I'm actually rather interested in, now. I think it's really quite unfortunate the order in which they announced the two games. When I first heard about the FPS game, what I kept thinking is that what really made the idea of a company using the name of an IP to make a game that isn't relevant to my wants as a fan of the series (and even specifically running counter to those tastes,) was that there wasn't any sign of a more traditional take on the series.
I think the idea of an FPS building on some concept of X-Com would have been a lot easier to swallow had we known about the turn-based game ahead of time. I can't think of a good strategy game metaphor - the closest I can think of is that (presumably) a lot of Halo fans probably weren't interested in the Halo Wars game, but that it probably wasn't all that big of a hullabaloo because they were probably pretty comfortably aware that there was still another Halo FPS on the way.
If Bungie had announced that they were done making FPS Halo games, and that Halo Wars was the only Halo ever coming out in the future - that's kind of how I originally felt about the announcement of the XCom FPS. I didn't see how this had anything to do with me, as a fan of a turn-based strategy series beyond both of them having aliens in them.
Now, however, I can view the two games as companions to each other. I'm not even too worried about how "tactical" the game is going to be now, or to what degree they're tying any of the gameplay elements from the original series into an FPS. Because I'm going to get that from the Enemy Unknown game anyway, I don't need that "fix" from this game, so much.
I actually think it could be a good opportunity to build up some actual lore, backstory, and history into the series. I'm viewing all of this as a re-imagining, of course. The old games weren't exactly known for a terribly compelling backstory or narrative (beyond, of course, what was emergent from the gameplay,) so if we can add to that this time around (without losing anything in the mix,) then I see that as a good thing. And a more narrative-driven FPS is probably a good way to go about that.
Here are my own thoughts, based on speculation and trends I've noticed in gaming, and facts that I won't even pretend are related to these three games.
If any of the games flop, it will be the XCom FPS. I think the game itself will be decent, but it fails to fill any sort of niche. It's too different to attract the fans of the original, and it's too much of the same to attract new fans of its own. It will be like X-Com Interceptor, or that top-down action shooter Fallout game that was released before FO3. I think the devs will make a little bit of money, but it won't generate enough interest for a sequel or continued dev support(DLC and the like).
XCom: EU will do well. Not "omg blockbuster runaway hit" great, but well enough that it will be considered a good game by fans and critics, and sell a good amount of copies. I can see it being like Deus Ex: HR, a well executed concept updated for modern gamers with one or two flaws that prevent it from surpassing the original. Whether that's actually true, or people are just viewing the original with nostalgia goggles will be a point of debate on forums like these.
Xenonauts will technically be the most successful of the three. I say "technically successful" because it's being made by a small indie dev team, and they'll need to sell significantly fewer copies for less money to turn a profit. If they put it on Steam and keep adding content, basically turning it into classic X-Com with more(weapons, aliens, missions, you name it), the devs will do very well for themselves while pleasing a smaller core group of fans.
My hope is that all three games are mind-blowingly awesome, but I've been disappointed too many times to believe that will happen.
UFO:ET will do well I'm pretty sure. Remember this is the sequel. The wouldn't have done another one if the first one had tanked. XCOM:EU will do very well, we all know that. Xenonauts is likely to do well not least because of it's loyal developing fan base. I know I'm definitely going to buy and play all three. The FPS can wither and die as far as I'm concerned. You wouldn't catch me playing this if they gave it away for free.
oh yeah the xenonauts project will be a succes it seems i ve been on theyr page and oh man they got a lot of old fans suport amaizing makes my heart happy
Yup. Was confident the final product would be good (been on preorder for a couple years), but with the KS cash, it should be pretty righteous. X-COM in 1080p *happy dance*
Excellent call. I fire up the alpha builds every few months to check progress, though I try not to play too much, just so when I do finally get the final build, it'll be nice and fresh. Been a lot of progress over the last year. Really loving the crashed alien ships (so much better than the "barn o doom" they were using as a placeholder before )
Well that's impressive. Maybe they can add female soldiers now :P.
XCOM-FPS.......please, you have to be joking.
Xenonauts........One big sack of bugs.
Sort of narrows down the field don't it?
it s alpha ,not even beta lol what do you expect ,lol
honestly for and indie studio it has done excelent ,not saying firaxis won t be good ,but somehow xenonauts remind more of x-com ,idk why but it just does
I like the looks of UFO2Extraterrestrials: Shadows over Earth. The first one was all right, I would think that they have learned a lot from that.
Hence the :P. Last I heard, supposedly the Xenonauts guys themselves were blaming a lack of time and money whenever anyone asked why there were no female troops. Accuracy in a game that's already set in an alternate history aside, I'd rather they spend money on enhancing the actual gameplay anyway.
it seems TBS isn t really dead afterall ,so much variety,a fight for the prize of being the succesor of the BEAST that was x-com ,let the show begin
I did like the first one, in fact I played it to death. I lot didn't like it, but what do they know? And now I think B-man is involved in the making of the second. Got hopes for this one.
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the x-com fan database is huuuuuuuuge i don t understand how devs could not see this the past years all the different titles coming out this year or a little bit later on just point out that x-com is and forver will be a really loved game for that huge fan pool from all around the world ,and i really find this amaizing ,that so much fans from around the world rise up again for one (if not the most)praised game ,simply awsome LONG LIVE X-COM
Don't hold it against the devs too much. If the gaming industry were ran by the folks that make games, we'd likely have a lot of quality running about. It's ran by people who don't give 2 poos about games and are only concerned about return on investment. Hooray for crowd funding
yeah you re right but if this goes on the industry is getting primitve actually ,,no inovation ,no experimating unlike 90 s games and early 2000 revolutionary games ,games that stay stuck in you re mind ,now we have mostly popamole retardr games it s sad very very sad ,this isn t evolution...it s involution


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The clamor of a sleigh and the clomping of footsteps broke the silence of a brilliant moonlit night on the banks of the Penobscot River in Hampden in late December of 1814. Awakened by the noise, federal customs agent Charles Tebbets peered through his front window to see seven or eight men gathering outside his locked front door. One had a sword by his side and a pistol in his hand. There was a loud knock. "What's wanted?" Tebbets asked through the closed door.
The man with the pistol replied he'd been robbed of some goods and he'd come to get them back. Tebbets insisted the goods were not in his house.
"You're a lying rascal!" the stranger shouted, and he fired his gun into the air to underscore his point. Then he ordered his men to stave the door in.
Alarmed and badly outnumbered, Tebbets began to negotiate. He allowed two of the men inside. The strangers ransacked the house from cellar to attic, with Tebbets lighting the way and soothing the scared women and children of his family. The armed men did not find what they sought — a trunk of smuggled British goods seized by federal officials — and they left the badly shaken Tebbets family to return to their beds.
The War of 1812 looms large in Maine's history because it led to statehood in 1820. Less well known is the fact that encounters like the one at the Tebbits' household were common throughout the District of Maine, where smugglers and spies abounded. Some supported the American cause, while others undermined their own government by acquiescing or even colluding with the enemy. Many were simply opportunists looking to make a quick profit. Theirs is a complex story of survival, ideals clung to and sometimes abandoned, greed, selflessness, patriotism, and treason, all fueled by the same relentless combination of stresses from which a new state was eventually formed.
America's "Second War of Independence" arose out of a complex combination of tensions that had been mounting for years. At war with France, the British Royal Navy had been interfering with American international trade, as well as harassing American merchant ships and impressing their sailors into its service against their will. At the same time, the United States was aggressively trying to expand into Indian tribal lands in northwest Canada, and the British supported the tribes whose lands were invaded. On June 18, 1812, under the rallying cry of "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights!", the United States declared war against Britain.
Most of the war was fought near or on the Great Lakes or out at sea. While only a secondary theater of the war, Maine was nonetheless profoundly affected. Communities that today, on the war's bicentenary, are quiet and picturesque were then scenes of stress, discord, and treason. Residents of Kittery and Portland, for example, lived in constant fear of an attack by the Royal Navy. Eastport, Machias, Castine, Belfast, and Bangor were actually seized by enemy troops.
Without doubt, the British menace was real, but as the Tebbets family knew too well, the war also divided locals against each other and against their government. Indeed, Eastport's citizens hated the American commander of the local fort so much they had him thrown into jail. And at the other end of the district, a debate about the war erupted into fistfights at a town meeting in Fryeburg. Waldoboro's Germans largely opted out of the conflict, while officials in Portland debated whether the city's nascent Irish populace should be considered enemy aliens or potential army recruits. The native tribes, meanwhile, receded deeper into the forests for fear of becoming victims of hysteria and racism.
Many communities remained cruelly divided long after the war ended. While some had done their patriotic chore and supported the war fully, others thought the war unjust and had bitterly opposed it. Especially in eastern Maine, there remained the question of how to respond to the locals who had openly and treasonously collaborated or traded with the enemy. The continued British occupation of Eastport from 1814 until 1818 only served to further embarrass and antagonize Mainers.
Smuggling was a widespread phenomenon in Maine even before the war broke out. High federal tariffs made trafficking lucrative, and Maine's long and porous border with Canada made it easy. Even the ostensibly respectable William King of Bath — who later became Maine's first governor — was a smuggler, and his illicit trading methods no doubt added to his wealth, and thus his political influence. Ordinary fisherfolk were smugglers, too, as were many small farmers who drove cattle through the woods to Canada, knowing they would be paid in British gold.
While Eastport was one of the most notorious smuggling spots in the nation, customs officials found abandoned smuggled goods on beaches near Saco. Schooners ghosted alongside Widow Emerson's wharf in York at midnight; and Portland retailers sometimes had difficulty explaining to the authorities how English goods arrived in their shops.
Violence was inevitable. Customs officials were threatened and sometimes beaten. A smuggler even killed a guard on remote Isle au Haut. Some officials found it easier to assist the smugglers than to confront them. York's customs collector was jailed for colluding with smugglers, but escaped from the town's ancient jail and fled to Nova Scotia.
With the advent of war, smugglers not only became busier, but by law their activities moved out of the realm of petty crime and into that of treason, since they supplied the enemy with sustenance and comfort and undermined the American war effort. Among them was Tyler Porter Shaw of Lincolnville, a sea captain who was supposed to deliver military stores to Maine but instead sold the cargo directly to the British navy. Caught by federal officials, he was rescued by his sword-wielding cousins as he was being transported to trial. He fled to New Brunswick and lived out his days there.
But most of this illegal trade was far more mundane. Surely the farmers in newly created Somerset County who drove their cattle through the woods to Quebec realized this beef was destined for the British army, but high prices and payment in gold soothed any qualms they may have had.
In Eastport, the fogs of Passamaquoddy Bay hid a two-way illegal trade encouraged by British officials in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. American and British smugglers collected in this remote border town, delivering Virginia flour and other foodstuffs to British agents. The smugglers were paid top dollar for these provisions, which were mostly destined to feed British soldiers and sailors in the Maritimes. If not paid in British gold, the barter often involved goods like cloth and hardware produced in England's new industrialized cities, such as Sheffield, Birmingham, and Liverpool. Manhattan swells joined Down East fishermen in this clandestine business, often arming themselves in the unlikely event that the largely corrupt local officials decided to interfere.
The Madison administration in distant Washington was well aware of this business, and by late 1812 sent a regiment of troops to suppress it. Led by Colonel George Ulmer, a hard-drinking timber merchant from Lincolnville, these troops had a difficult time chasing the smugglers, who outfoxed them with their local knowledge and bribed them with whiskey or cash to turn a blind eye. On occasion they even kidnapped those soldiers who could not be bought.
Outraged by this conduct, Ulmer used increasingly draconian methods to curtail the traffic, in effect imposing martial law in eastern Washington County. The smugglers conspired to get Ulmer out of the way. Hampered by a tenuous supply system, the colonel had run up large bills with local merchants to feed his troops garrisoned at Fort Sullivan. When he proved unable to pay, the merchants, many of them involved in smuggling, had the sheriff throw the colonel in jail for debt. For almost two months the Machias jail served as Ulmer's headquarters. Troop morale eroded, and little was done to stop the smugglers. By the time Ulmer returned, his own officers had turned on him and charged him with gross mismanagement and frequent drunkenness. Army superiors relieved Ulmer of command.
What Eastport was to smuggling, Castine was to espionage. The British had been infiltrating spies into Maine since at least 1808, when they sent a young army lieutenant disguised as a Swiss civilian to Castine to determine if the United States was building a fleet to attack Nova Scotia. The lieutenant found nothing, but rumors of spies persisted in Castine and elsewhere. Federal officials even arrested one fisherman who had just returned to Boothbay from New Brunswick. He spent months in Wiscasset's clammy stone jail until a letter from Washington ordered his release.
The American government also used spies. Deeply concerned about the lively smuggling trade that had quickly developed in Castine and along the Penobscot River during the British occupation, the Treasury Department sent Amos Proctor, who had zealously prosecuted smugglers in northern New Hampshire and Vermont, to investigate. He discovered that British goods worth millions of dollars were pouring into Castine and being smuggled into the U.S. Federal officials from Maine to Massachusetts were alerted, and they impounded many of the goods as they were transported by sleigh westward from the Penobscot River to Portland, Boston, and New York.
Since being tight-lipped was a prerequisite skill for any successful smuggler, much of this story remains a mystery. We will probably never know the full extent of the traffic or who the most successful smugglers were. Those who had been involved in illicit trade with the British were not inclined to talk much about it, and gradually the memory faded, preserved only in dusty but fascinating court records, such as Charles Tebbets' deposition about smugglers invading his home.
Wake-up calls similar to that loud knock on the door that moonlit night in Hampden were heard throughout Maine and the nation at large. Smugglers were not so much opposing the war as they were providing for their families' welfare during a time of extreme tension and disorder. Other husbands and fathers did the same when they signed on as privateers in hopes of sharing prizes captured on the high seas.
The government Charles Tebbets represented found it almost impossible to maintain its national honor and will in the face of the people's crushing economic circumstances and the politicians' relentless criticism. Mainers seemed to view their situation and their destiny as quite different from that of their leaders in Boston. Just a year and a month after the British lowered their flag and left Eastport in 1818, Mainers — lead by the erstwhile smuggler, William King — voted to form a new state, which was accepted into the Union on March 15, 1820.
Joshua M. Smith heads the Department of Humanities at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York.
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Below are three novels I read this week and my thoughts:
London Eye by Tim Lebbon
The most glaring observation almost anyone will make about London Eye is how short it is. Just over two hundred pages hardbound, it looks like a book cut in half. It reads that way too.
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Another of Kansas City's premier high school players is coming to Northwest Missouri State.
Justin Pitts, a 5-9 point guard from Blue Springs South, signed with Northwest late last week, according to a source within the program.
Pitts is Northwest's third signee for next year and the second that was a finalist for the DiRenna Award, given out to the top boys basketball player in the Kansas City metro area every year. Shawnee Mission East (Kan.) product Zach Schneider, who signed with Northwest two weeks ago, was also up for the award.
Pitts averaged 16.4 points per game, 4.6 steals, 3.6 rebounds and three assists during his senior year for a Jaguar team that went 24-3 and lost in sectionals to eventual Class 5 state champion Rockhurst.
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A first team all-state selection in Class 5, Pitts finished his Jaguar career as the school's single-game (12), single-season (125) and career leader (260) in steals.
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Judy Schad is among a small handful of cheesemakers in the United States that was at the forefront of the farmstead cheese revolution, and she has vastly contributed to helping shape the future of the movement.
Judy has been making cheese since 1976, when she and her husband moved with their three young children from the suburbs to a hill farm in southern Indiana. They sought a sustainable lifestyle, a milk cow, and lots of gardens. When they ran the title on their new farm they discovered that it had belonged to Judy's husband's great, great grandfather in the 1870s. Over the years, the suburbs have followed them and they are now the last working dairy in the county.
Judy wanted to build a working model that others could follow, but since there were no guidelines for commercial goat dairying, they based their model, through trial and error, on an older, more traditional dairy, centered on herd health, longevity, productivity and on animals who are born, live, and die on the same farm. Judy's goats comprise of Alpine, Saanen and Nubian breeds.
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Can it be nearly two years since I wrote about the plans for the Col Solare winery? Time flies and the winery, a home for the twelve-year-old brand, a collaboration between Washington state's Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and Tuscany's Marchesi Antinori has finally been opened. The winery sits on a 40-acre site in Columbia Valley's s Red Mountain area. The 18,000-case facility will produce the well-regarded Col Solare wine, a silky blend of Cabernet, Merlot and Syrah that retails for $70. The winery has a bell tower and a Tuscan-inspired tasting room. The winery is designed to look, from the air, like the sun with paths cutting through the vineyard like sun's rays. The vineyard has been planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec and Syrah and Col Solare is building a two-mile water pipeline to bring the vineyard water. If you are interested in checking out the new winery they are releasing the 2004 vintage in July.


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We've all heard it said—many of us have probably said it ourselves—that we're living in a Golden Age for fine wine. But is it true?
I'd say that, yes, it is true—up to a point. It is a Golden Age for fine wine. But not for every producer, and it's not everywhere, either. And that, in turn, is why not everyone gets in on the golden deal merely by showing up with a credit card. You've got to know where to look.
For example, this is not really a golden era for Napa Valley. Oh sure, it's golden in the financial sense. Don't cry for Napa's Evitas. They're doing just fine, thank you.
But Napa's golden moment is now past. It occurred back in the 1980s. That was when you saw and felt and tasted an electrifying excitement. New wineries seemingly emerged every day. New concepts in winemaking were explored, exalted and then sometimes discarded, all in the name of a continuing revolution—and revelation.
Could you say the same about Napa Valley today? I don't think so. It's eased into a comfortable middle age, a little thick around the middle and disinclined, understandably so, to risk its hard-earned gains. So if you're looking for the fabled Golden Age, Napa is not where you should be searching. It's more of a Sure Thing, like a utility stock.
The same may be said about Bordeaux. The highly profitable (and highly predictable) classed-growths are no more adventurous than a Disneyland Jungle Ride. The rest of Bordeaux, for its part, is either comatose or paralyzed, take your pick. Bordeaux is not going to steal the old Pontiac slogan "We Build Excitement" any time soon. For most of Bordeaux, it's now more of a Tin Age. So don't look for any glitter there either.
All righty then, where is the vaunted Golden Age action? And what makes it so?
A Golden Age is a kind of magic moment when a region or a district comes alive with a newfound sense of possibility. It's a "brass ring" moment, when everybody on the merry-go-round—owners, winemakers and wine lovers—gleefully tries to grab the brass ring of both promise and achievement. Far from playing it safe, these same participants are seriously playful. They take chances. And when those risks succeed, we see a new vision of wine goodness that we had never previously witnessed. That's a Golden Age. (We're seeing just this sort of excitement and adventurousness with coffee and craft beers, for example.)
Various stages of this very exciting process in wine are playing out in numerous places worldwide. For example, it's fully in place today in Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Collectively, the red Burgundies (Pinot Noirs) being made today are as fine and authentic and brimming with beautifully crafted goodness as ever in living memory.
Improbably, given the difficulty of securing land and good wine sources in this famously sub-divided area, we're seeing a renaissance of small new producers. A good number of these are foreigners. They are Burgundy-besotted Americans and Canadians, especially, who believe in Burgundy's ancient vision of terroir-driven wine beauty. They are arm in arm with a growing cadre of deeply committed Burgundian winemakers, many of them young and passionate.
A Golden Age is now fully in force in the Côte d'Or. You should be buying the village-level and less-expensive premiers crus from these ever-more exacting and rigorous producers.
Where else? While on the subject of Pinot Noir, I'd also look at what's happening in three more zones now glowing golden: Oregon's Willamette Valley, New Zealand's Central Otago and Australia's cool-climate Mornington Peninsula.
All three satisfy the Golden Age prerequisites: an abundance of adventurous producers, a willingness to pursue ever-more rigorous grapegrowing and winemaking practices and, not least, a new level of accomplishment that proves they're on the right track.
All three locales are today creating the finest wines they've yet offered, Pinot Noirs that are not merely pat-on-the-head good, but closer to Satchel Paige's famous admonition, "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." All three are gaining mighty fast.
The same may be said of yet other areas for yet other sorts of wines.
Canada's Ontario district is acquiring critical mass, i.e., enough producers, vineyards, vintages and winemaking experience to be on the verge of another order of success.
The Beaujolais region is (finally) rousing itself from the narcotic stupor of once-easy money from Beaujolais nouveau and is returning to crafting substantial, dimensional "real" Beaujolais. It's not a Golden Age yet for them, but it's coming.
And there's yet more. Look closely at Portugal in general and the table wines of the Douro zone in particular. Here again, it's not yet a Golden Age for them. But it soon will be. Ditto for various not-quite-heralded parts of Spain, including regions such as Galicia (look especially at the Ribeira Sacra and Bierzo districts) and the likes of the Campo de Borja, Navarra and Toro zones.
Not least, there's France's vast Loire Valley. A Golden Age is very nearly upon this region, if not necessarily everywhere at once—it's a huge, varied area, after all.
But can anyone doubt the sense of renewal and commitment from an ever-larger number of young producers popping up in many of the Loire's dozens of districts? Personally, I look assiduously at the Loire Valley for my own cellar, as the quality-to-price ratio is as good as anywhere in the world.
So, yes, it is a Golden Age for fine wine. Can you doubt that it's so? Surely there are yet more nominees. For example, is it now a Golden Age for Argentina? Or for Piedmont's Barolo and Barbaresco districts? Or for grower Champagne? How about Hungary? What about Zinfandel? The list is … yours.
Andrew S Bernardo — Ottawa, Canada — January 22, 2013 12:07pm ET
Matt, I would argue that Rioja is reaching it's "golden age". Sure, quality wine has been coming out of Rioja for over a century, but I think that the increased diversity in winemaking philosophies is the key to helping it get there. On the one hand, we have the traditionalists, still ageing their wines for a decade or more before bottling. You have the modernists, who are aiming to produce wines for the "21st century". You also have those who are trying to blend both the modern and the traditional, from field blends containing indigenous varietals to even a couple young winemakers attempting to make sparkling and dessert wines, I think we are less than a decade from the regions true golden age. After all, diversity is the main source of excitement...at least for me.
David Holstrom — Portland Oregon — January 22, 2013 2:37pm ET
I have no idea what a wine "Golden Age" is.
Is it when the wine is very well made or is it when wine writers tire of what they are currently doing and turn their attention to the next shiny bright object?
It strikes me as facile and glib to dismiss entire regions of the wine world in a sentence or two. And it is just as inaccurate to heap (often unwarranted)praise on others simply because they are in a currently fashionable area.
My experience is that there are producers that make exciting wines in nearly every wine region - even those that have been dismissed and written off by wine writers and gatekeepers".
I taste just as much mediocre, unexciting wine from Oregon, Navarra and the Côte d'Or as I do from Napa and Bordeaux. But when you start talking about individual producers it is a different story.
Hoyt Hill — Nashville, TN USA — January 22, 2013 4:04pm ET
If the vine disease Esca turns out to be as devastating as some people believe it is going to be in Burgundy and the Rhone (I would say that it is a Golden Age for the Rhone with 2007, 2009 and 2010s all being extraordinary), it may become a Golden age for other regions where Pinot Noir flourishes sooner rather than later!
Have you watched the amazing new video "A Year in Burgundy"?
If not, you should!
Troy Peterson — Burbank, CA — January 22, 2013 4:59pm ET
I don't care if Beaujolais is in a Platinum era, there's just something about those wines (is it the carbonic maceration?) that has never agreed with me. I've tasted some of the highest-rated ones, some with a few years of age (never drank a nouveau), and still was left nonplussed. If WS reported that the entire region was salted with nuclear waste I wouldn't shed a tear.
I think you left out one region: Paso Robles. Some of the most exciting experiments in varietals, aging and vessels (concrete esp) are happening right here in California. I feel fortunate and am ever grateful that I live just a few hours from this glorious vintners' paradise, the real inflection point on my wine map almost 13 years ago.
Dennis D Bishop — Southeast Michigan, USA — January 22, 2013 7:18pm ET
Today's golden age is "THE CONSUMER". Never before have so many cared so much about what they drink. This will be the driving force to drive quality up and up, and (should I say) create a market for GOLDEN WINES.
Ed Frankoski — Huntington, NY — January 22, 2013 9:36pm ET
You asked where the action is? Well, the Golden Age of Wine is on my dinner table and in my cellar. Facilitated by my computer, I read scores of tasting reveiws and instantly purchase inexpensive fine wines with just a "click." They come to me from around the world in a matter of days. I have the ability to experience outstanding bottlings from highly rated vintages and then review my tasting notes comparing "les grognards de vin" with some of those new upstarts you mentioned. So many newer entries have that "edge" you have mentioned. Yes, the Golden Age of Wine rests with cost conscious consumers who are coming up the learning curve at an ever amazing rate. My personal mantra is: Over 90, Under $20. It's yielding very tasty rewards. Cheers!
David Rapoport — CA — January 23, 2013 9:30am ET
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Peter Vangsness — East Longmeadow, MA — January 23, 2013 10:03am ET
What Ed said!!
We have met the Golden Age, and it is US! WS has played an important role in my purchasing and enjoyment of many wines, and saved me from some real mistakes!
Eric Hall — Healdsburg, CA — January 23, 2013 10:34am ET
I think you need to visit Healdsburg (again) soon..
There are so many new wineries popping up making all kinds of interesting things.
And it's accelerating.
Admittedly we have three (or four if you count Sonoma Coast) AVA's converging here, but it's the little guys who you meet all over town, each one with something fun & new going on.
Roadhouse Winery
Flavio Henrique Silva — São Carlos, SP, Brazil — January 23, 2013 3:47pm ET
Excellent article, Matt!
In my opinion, people should also heed the Chilean Sauvignon blanc and Syrah. They are getting better and better.
Joe Dekeyser — Waukesha, WI USA — January 24, 2013 10:44am ET
Nicely turned. There is a huge danger in being successful, you might start to become careful - don't make mistakes, play it safe and that may be why so many of the wines that excite us are coming from places we hadn't heard of or had forgotten about or had written off completely.
How about the Rhone varietals from the Central Coast and the same being sourced from Amador, Lake, El Dorado counties at "high" altitude. I think that I am seeing fresh takes on old ideas and I am loving the results.
Noah Sevillia — Santa Cruz, California — January 24, 2013 3:45pm ET
What Matt describes as a "Golden Age" sounds more like a "Spring" to me. It's all semantics I suppose but I would argue that Napa is in the midst of a Golden Age and the other regions Matt pointed out are in a Spring.
The question is whether the Spring will surge into a Golden Age. Craft beer is in the midst of a Spring in America. When considerably more people trade their macro beer for the craft beer will that market see a Golden Age.
jeff lorton — Carlton, Oregon — January 24, 2013 6:33pm ET
Fun article Matt, and thought provoking by as evidenced by the many comments. Of the three glowing zones that you mentioned, I have the great luck to live right in the center of the action in one; the Willamette Valley.
Here in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA we truly are experiencing the start of a Golden Age. Not only are our signature single vineyard Pinot Noirs flourishing both locally and abroad but a gastronomic revolution is also taking place.
Regional charcuteries, cheese makers and artisan bakeries are popping up almost as fast as the new wine labels. So are truly great restaurants and lodgings.
In my home, Carlton, a charming berg of barely more than two thousand souls, one can dine on authentic provincial French cuisine, munch fresh pain au chocolat and baguette daily, sample savory spiced fruit preserves, spread the chèvre and savor a nationally celebrated bacon. The towns artisan brewery and cider makers help us wash it all down.
Other nearby towns like Mcminnville, Newberg and Dayton are also enjoying the golden life that our passionate winemakers incubate.
It is not wonder that the "Orgundian" lifestyle is attracting more and more people from across the country. Each weekend, in our small tasting room I meet people who either have or are moving to the Valley. Each seems to have a plan for pursuing some kind of wine or food related passion.
If this is what it means to live during a golden age. Hurrah!
Joe Balerdi — MIami Florida — January 25, 2013 8:15am ET
Jumilla, Jumilla. You can beat the price for such enjoyable wine. The consumer is winning as we are now able to purchase wines from all over the world at very reasonable prices.
James Nokes — Chicago, IL — January 25, 2013 3:29pm ET
Paso Robles for sure fits this bill. Young, creative, passionate risk takers that eschew tradition and create wine In a way that fits their personality.
Jonathan Weinrieb — Washington, DC — January 29, 2013 4:08pm ET
Given its present QPR and string of unreal vintages, how this article does not mention the Rhone is incomprehensible.
Daniel Bleier — Austin, TX, USA — January 31, 2013 2:23pm ET
What about Washington State wine? From WS's own data, this region produces the best quality to price ratio (having the lowest average price point for 90+ rated wine). I have shifted major buying attention to Washington in the last few years, enjoying the thrill of new producers (for me at least)making world class wine.
Wynona Tilton — Corvallis, OR — February 6, 2013 2:45pm ET
Having lived in Oregon for 35 years, my husband and I have closely watched the growth of the wine industry in the state. We are smack dab in the middle of the Willamette Valley, which is perfect for traveling to any of the best wine producers in the state. There are indeed some wines that are not quite up to par, but in general, there are many fine wines here and in Washington (love my Quilceda Creek wine) that can easily compete with any wine region.
Places to stay- the Allison Inn and Spa is definitely the best.
Eric, we are headed to Healdsburg next month- any suggestions on which ones NOT to miss? Thanks!
Joel — Toronto Canada — July 28, 2013 3:08pm ET
Nice piece, Matt. Growing up and living in Ontario it is warming to hear positive things about Ontario wine and producers. Terroir for many is truly a focus but the challenges are many. I have spoken with many producers and it (I am sure this is common anywhere) is a balance between yields, quality and simply being able to make a profit. It is make or break back-breaking work in many spots. Not being in it 'for the money' is a tough prospect but try a well crafted PEC Chardonnay or Niagara area Pinot Noir and it is an eye lightening experience. As many here have passionately pointed out I feel we live in a time where the golden age is simply access to amazing wine all over the planet. The Internet has truly created a community we should all tip out hats to.
Don Rauba — Schaumburg, IL — July 30, 2013 11:12pm ET
Oh dear, another "why aren't you people as smart as me" blog by Mr. Kramer trying desperately to tell us what to drink. How tedious. (Am I renewing soon?)
"Napa is not where YOU SHOULD (my emphasis) be searching" is perhaps only marginally useful to people who don't like Napa wine (and that's a broad net to cast over exclusions). Are you sure you're not talking exclusively of bargains, here Mr. Kramer? "YOU SHOULD (my emphasis) be buying the village-level and less-expensive (Côte d'Or) premiers crus..." Hmmm... yes, budget again. What if that style doesn't resonate with our own palates? YOU SHOULD make your point without dictating to people what their tastes ought to be, Mr. Kramer, because no one likes to be the target of condescension.
On the other hand, I wholeheartedly agree with David Holstrom's main points. It seems to me that by a preponderance of evidence that what Mr. Kramer considers "golden age" is "bargains". That's fine, but why not mention it? Is it somehow shameful to you?
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Seabourn's biggest ships ever, these two newbies use their extra space to great advantage, most notably with wonderful public spaces (especially the dining spots), a superhigh passenger/space ratio, and balconies off virtually every suite.
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Seabourn Odyssey sails the Panama Canal from Ft. Lauderdale (winter).
Seabourn Quest sails the Caribbean from Fort Lauderdale (winter).
Seabourn Sojourn sails New England/Canada from New York & Quebec City (fall).
Until 2009, Seabourn hadn't had a new vessel in 17 years (since the launch of Seabourn Legend in 1992) and no one thought it ever would have one again -- mostly because it was presumed that Carnival Corporation, the line's owner, would consider it more economical to put money into bigger ships. To everyone's pleasant surprise, we were wrong. And to everyone's even pleasanter surprise, the ships turned out to be fantastic: spacious, luxurious, with just the right mix of new features and old favorites that longtime Seabourn guests have come to expect.
Because Sojourn debuted in summer 2010, just as this guide was going to press (and since Quest isn't due to launch until summer 2011), all details in this review refer to Odyssey -- but no worries: The ships are essentially identical.
The ship's 225 suites are all outside, and 199 of them have private balconies. All are done in a softly muted color palette with fashionable furniture that doesn't clutter up the room or distract by being over-the-top plush. About 85% of all rooms fit into the Seabourn Suite (295-300 sq. ft.) and Verandah Suite (295-300 sq. ft., plus a 65-sq.-ft. balcony) categories. All of these staterooms have separate bedroom and living room areas, queen-size or twin beds, walk-in closets, flatscreen TVs with music and movie channels, a fully stocked (and complimentary) bar and refrigerator, a writing desk (with personalized stationery being a nice, if sort of frilly, touch), a separate tub and shower in the bathroom, robes, slippers, hair dryers, and more. Both the walk-in closets and the drawers are plenty spacious and the push-to-open-and-close mechanism for the drawers is excellent.
At the higher end, accommodations run from the Penthouse Suites (436 sq. ft. and larger, plus 98-sq.-ft. balconies) all the way up to the Wintergarden Suites (914 sq. ft., plus two balconies totaling 183 sq. ft.) and the forward placed Signature Suites (907 sq. ft., plus 353-sq.-ft. balcony). Passengers who book the Wintergarden or Signature Suites but still need more leg room can book the suites next door as well, and the two can be connected to make one enormous space. All of these suites come with added amenities when compared to the standard suites, including (based on category) separate dining areas, an extra TV, a butler pantry, whirlpool tubs, a guest bath, an extra closet, an extra bedroom, a glass-enclosed solarium with a tub and day bed, and even an extra bar. The Wintergarden Suites, placed as they are midships, have a curved balcony that allows 180 degree viewing forward and aft.
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Odyssey and Sojourn are much more than proportionately larger vessels compared to Seabourn's earlier ships. The company has done a sensational job of using the extra tonnage while also increasing the passenger-space ratio, and it has done this while remaining faithful to many of the design and decor features that made the three smaller ships so popular and so highly rated. The Club is one popular room that has gotten bigger. There's still the back bar area, sort of set apart from the rest of the room and the stage by glass barriers, while the rest of the room has the stage, the dance floor, and lots of seating. The aft area outside the Club has a pool, whirlpool, and a smattering of seating. It's one of the ship's many great daytime escapes. Seabourn Square is a new addition that's a big hit with passengers. Essentially serving the purpose of a concierge area (such as you'd see at a small luxury hotel), it has four central desks where staffers take care of all administration needs, including those traditionally covered by the purser's desk (of which there's none on board). Grouped around are various sitting areas for the library, the Internet area (with its eight computers), and a neat little European-style cafe serving snacks and beverages.
The main entertainment lounge is the place for the small production shows staged by four talented performers. This is the only room on board that's not quite up to snuff, or at least to the fine snuff that's otherwise the standard here. Pillars hinder sight lines and the assorted seating types are less than really comfy. Another evening (and day) area is the Observation Bar way up on Deck 10, which has a 270-degree view over the bow. It's a wonderfully quiet room during the day and a fun conversation/dancing/meeting place in the evening, when a piano player is on hand for live pre/post-dinner music. Other public rooms such as the casino, card room, and shops are no larger than they need to be.
Pool Fitness & Spa Facilities
This is an area where Seabourn has really put Odyssey and Sojourn's extra space to great use. The pool area on Deck 8 is very spacious (much more so than on the line's smaller ships) and is a wonderful location for relaxing and enjoying the outside world. The nicely sized pool is surrounded by two large whirlpools. Above the pool area, on Deck 9, is additional space full of deck chairs. One surprising note: While the chairs were comfortable, there were no cushions. Way up at the top of the ship and forwardly placed is the Sun Terrace, probably the quietest place to relax and enjoy the view and the rays. Perhaps the most overlooked pool area is the aft section of the ship behind the Club, which has a small pool plus two whirlpools, lounge chairs, and tables. It's quiet and the views over the ship's wake are mesmerizing.
Seabourn is justifiably proud of its two-deck spa and gym area, called simply the Spa at Seabourn. Run by Steiner Leisure (as are most other ship spas), it's a series of rooms ranging from gym to spa, salon to private villas, spa pool to "kinesis wall" (a new kind of modular strength-training system that requires some explanation from one of the gym's trainers). Overall, it's 11,400 square feet and designed with an indoor/outdoor look and feel. The gym is much larger than aboard the line's smaller ships, with 19 pieces of training equipment as well as eight high-tech treadmills. Those who want a retreat within a retreat can rent out either of two spa villas for specialized treatments of up to 4 hours (or longer based on special arrangements). Each villa can accommodate up to four guests for private massages including stone therapy, facials, bathing rituals, and more. The regular spa and salon are no slouches either when it comes to offering exotic treatments, including the Seabourn 24 Karat Gold Facial, the Elemis Tri-Enzyme Resurfacing Facial, SkinCeuticals Gel Peel Treatment, Bamboo Massage, Thai Herbal Poultice Massage, Fire and Ice Manicures, and Pedicures and many, many more, all of them in the not-so-cheap category.
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Hip Hop and Classic Rock/Eminem
Destany is a sophomore on the Lady Cats' volleyball and track teams.
Playing baseball with my little brother, swimming and running.
Main Street Baptist Church Youth Group.
National Honor Society. I have too many sports going on to do more.
The Henry County Wildcats' boys and girls track teams competed in the North Central Kentucky Conference track meet on April 23 at Walton-Verona. The boys team finished second and the girls' team finished third in the meet.