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Fellow wine lovers, winos and wine rookies, foodies, restaurant hounds, amateur cooks and more - I'm back!
Unfortunately my Wine Barbarian blog has been very neglected due to a series of reasons but.....I hope to make amends and more importantly, make this a useful blog for wine drinkers, restaurant goers and food fiends in BC and everywhere else.
You will find wine reviews and recommendations, restaurant reviews and travel reports - all of which happened here before but very infrequently.
I've turned over a new leaf - and it's a grape leaf!
Please check out my first new post in quite a while - about one of my absolute favourite wines available in BC and other locations - a Wine Spectator 93 point Top 100 Wine of 2010 - at $29.
Click here to find out more.
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10 comments:
Keep the suggestions coming. Bought the second to last bottle at Collingwood BCL store this aft.
Sick to death of Farnese.
-E.
Bill, lighten up about the temporary replacement for Jack Layton. She has a long background as a progressive leader, and like it or not most NDP MPs are from Quebec. And his recommendation for temp leader leaves those you mention in a good position to run for the leadership should it be necessary. Good on Jack, and Bill, bury your head in some Long Beach sand. Thank you.
Figures. Hate everything in government except the NDP, and perpetually think about that while looking at a bottle of grog on the dining room table..
Read Saskia Sassen's description of the exploitation of migrant workers in France to harvest grapes.
Why get upset over migrant workers used to build the Canada Line when you enjoy the fruits of labour exploitation in a glass of vino?
A large part of the experience of wine is the satisfaction of exploiting labour - isn't it wine drinkers?
There's no question workers in not just the vineyards of the world but many other workplaces are exploited.
But I have in the past worked the US Farmworkers Union in successfully unionizing Washington State farmworkers at Chateau Ste. Michelle and Columbia Crest wineries after a boycott campaign that the BC Federation of Labour supported.
And the drink of working people in much of the world is wine - not beer - we can enjoy wine while still fighting for workers' rights in every occupation.
Wine is the drink of working people for sure as Bill says. When Canada first opened Air Force stations in France, wine was common as the tap water was unsafe. Years later we saw French Air Force guys taking their break, sitting on a aircraft wing, having their wine and bread. Nobody was getting plastered. Mind you, the German guys were drinking beer.Anything in moderation
I will go to the wine barbarian AFTER you promise to edit out the PAB scum. If you desire their comments then please save them to a separate word document for posterity - there is no need to subject the rest of us to their bile.
I don't edit out "PAB scum" from posts here - I only ban libelous or obscene comments or those that are blatantly unfair and intentionally misleading - all else is fair game, including attacks on yours truly.
"I will go to the wine barbarian AFTER you promise to edit out the PAB scum. If you desire their comments then please save them to a separate word document for posterity - there is no need to subject the rest of us to their bile."
What happens when the NDP returns to power and has an equivalent PAB?
and yes they will have something of that sort. Plus government advertising.
Be around when it happens.
Bill has great taste in the wine he drinks and the clients he chooses to work with. The Wine Barbarian brings the fresh, witty and dynamic approach to wine that he does to Politics.
Cheers!
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