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Song For My Father
It’s a Horace Silver cut: Song For My Father. Such a brilliant paean from a brilliant pianist, and it’s so funky, and soulful, and beautiful. And that’s my Dad. Meaning, the cat is not so much in the...
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The Ritual Of Wine: A Question For You
On a personal level, I am a ritualist. I ritualize everything. For me, a ritual is the path to awareness. Enacting a ritual is an act of mindfulness. It is a way to stop oneself, and make oneself...
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Dizzy Gillespie, Monte Bello, Wine Spectator, Oh My!
~ I’m closing in on 1000 posts on this blog, and to date, there are still so few that reference reviews or point scores that the category rarely even appears in my Tag Cloud. (Which is, I realize, a...
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Wine “Country?”
I read a great deal about the wine industry. Kind of comes with the territory. Today, I was reading about music; specifically, the music people play at wine events, and/or in wine tasting rooms. What...
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Things I’m Thankful For …
What a wonderful thing to have the opportunity to be thankful for, the opportunity to write another Things I’m Thankful For post! I began this tradition in 2009, when 4488: A Ridge Blog was not yet...
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We’re Baaaaack! The Return of the Ridge Vineyards Wine Bloggers Tasting...
It’s a New Year, my friends, which means it’s time for a new Wine Bloggers Tasting Series! That’s right bloggers, this is to serve notice that the 2014 Edition of our Ridge Vineyards Wine Bloggers...
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Natural Jazz, Natural Wine
I do not wish to wade into “natural” waters per se, but I will say that I understand why the term both is and isn’t important; when it comes to wine, or anything else. There is, of course, the...
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A Winemaker’s Conception
In studying The Jazz, one will often come across discussions of a musician’s “conception.” What does this mean? Many a critical theorist has deployed the term, and Eric Nisenson, for example, in his...
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Wine Either is, or Isn’t, Just A “__________”
What word do you suppose fills in the blank? Drink? I was thinking “Product.” Wine either is, or isn’t, just a product. If it is, then it’s just price break to quality, and a rating. That’s all you...
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Wine. What Is Hip?
News flash, cash the man in black is brac and bric, with a quick and the girl from Ipanema has a dream-a that we all get along like the notes in a song that we want to teach the world... Read More ›
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