17 May 2012

Courtney’s Wines: Bründlmayer

This was an Austrain red and it was AMAZING with the spicy dishes. I really didn’t want to do anything pinot noir because its spendy and kinda cliche but this was apparently a pinot/zweigeld (sp) hybrid grape. I actually wasn’t too into the fruity nose on this guy, it reminded me vaguely of cheap wine, and wouldn’t really dig it but for the sake the mission (remember: Mexican and Indian). But I dug in and took one for the team. Of course.

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16 May 2012

Courtney’s Wines: Scholium Project

This seems like a standard Napa chardonnay BUT it is actually a very exclusive wine made from only local elements (yeast, grapes etc). It does NOT do well with spicy food. Long after the perfect balance of flavor and spice has faded from the palette, one sip of this brings on PAIN!

It IS amazing with non spicy foods though.

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16 May 2012

Courtney’s Wines: Courtney’s Wines

Ok everyone I’m going to be designing a wine and doing a limited run (prolly less than 100 cases).
I’ve been collecting wines of the world for years now and so I guess its about time. That and I was asked to. I’m going to have the actual blending/tasting/mixing on the afternoon of the Brooklyn show so I’ll be trying wines along the way and sending you my tasting notes and photos of bottles.

My main goal is to CREATE A BLEND MAINLY FOR THE VERY TRICKY INDIAN AND MEXICAN CUISINES. Both Mexico and India make very good wines but I haven’t found a perfect wine for these bold and spicy foods that werks quite the way I hope for. My journey starts in about twenty minutes at lunch in San Francisco. I’ll letcha know.

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8 May 2012

Courtney’s Books: Pure

This book: “Pure” by Andrew Miller is one of the best books I’ve ever read.
It’s astounding. It is perfect. This is undoubtedy one of the greatest books ever written.

I’ve read Les Miserables twice in my life and Tale of Two Cities probably three if not four times to the point where they have become mushed together with movie versions I think. This book is one of them. It is one of the best books ever.

Several times during my amazing week with this book I thought “I really hope Neil Stephenson reads this”. I mean it’s probably very rare that that guy gets to have his mind blown by another contemporary writer. I imagine his head will fugging explode. Mine did and I’m not even close to as good a writer as he is. How did this Andrew Miller guy do this? It’s just so cleanly told. I smell obvious devices a mile away and not one thing did I see coming. Not once did i catch him “writing”. Not once was I cheesed or underwhelmed or disappointed. Nobody was writing this book. It simply had always been. I was simply reading a story about a very interesting thing. Personally this beast also imparted a shit ton of really deep and profound thoughts about self and self-meets-world that I found incredibly relevent and applicable to my life right now. And he’s so damn conservative. So tidy. Cryin out loud how did this guy do this?

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