Coverage of My Coverage: the Climate Change Conference
Manuel Camblor, a man of excellent taste (obviously) has cited my coverage of the Climate Change conferece.
Manuel's (found at http://blogs.larioja.com/otrabotella/posts),is all in Spanish (his February 26th entry) so I had no idea what he wrote, until I had my friend Liz, translate.
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I have the good fortune to have friends with freedom and access [to attend the Barcelona conference on Wine and Climate Change]. Alice Feiring, whose name you have read here on repeated occasions, was in Barcelona a week ago for the conference. Alice shares my intolerance for the petulant manner in which the great wine industry constantly tries to bullshit everyone, pushing oenological techno nonsense. Being as she is, the indefatigable champion of Terroir, wine agriculture without tricks, true wine, her reports are for me, almost like being there. Tremendously well-informed, astute and caustic, Alice doesn't allow many to escape. A few days ago I wrote with great indignation based on reports from Decanter.com and Catavino that even though they are good they don't give me an infinitesimal fraction of the perspective that Alice provides.
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This all made me think once again about the difference between my blogging and my other life as a writer-for-hire.
This blog is the inner workings of my access, sometimes peppered with Alice-isms that no real paper or magazine would tolerate. Which is why I started this thing in the first place.
Thanks for the kind words, Manuel.
It IS sad, Alice, that no magazine could or would tolerate a free expression of opinion, but we are glad to have you here, where expression is still (for the moment) accepted.
Hi Hank, You know, I don't find it so sad. Do I really want much opinion in newspapers? Other than essay or editorial, not really. News should try to be as objective as possible. (though iId love to see an objective take on M. Rolland's bedside manner with the audience) I'd like the news as cut to the bone as possible. Hope that at the same time it's not too much of a paradox, that while Eric Asimov pointed his readers to the Decanter coverage, those who really want to know the real story, make their way to my site. I trust they will. Thanks loads for writing. It means a lot to me.
Thank YOU, Alice. I've just found your blog, through an enjoyable reading of Glupt! (http://luizhorta.wordpress.com/), and it was love at the first description. All I have about wine is passion and no knowledge, so when I read you are a person "who loves the differences in each vintage, who abhors homogenization, who wants wines that make you smile, think, laugh,and feel sexy", I knew I had found someone to look up to!
Thanks yet again.
strong hug from Southern Brazil
Heloisa
Hey Alice,
Just doin' my bloggerly duty... And everything I said, I meant. Your posts were very like being there. Any guys in velvet at the Climate Change Conference? Just the other day, right before the Tre Bicchieri thing, which I didn't go to because I'm never invited to such affairs, I was wearing a Duffer of Saint George chalkstripe velvet jacket.
Anyway, just thought I'd comment on the improvemente your friend's translation made of what I originally wrote in my coverage of your coverage. Your friend puts it at "Alice doesn't allow many to escape." What I wrote went more along the lines of "Not a lot gets past Alice". Somehow, there's a bit of a "Resistance is futile" edge to your friend's construction which I like very much...:-)
Oh, and I just got the latest issue of Food & Wine. Apparently it has a review of your book. I was much amused when, the other day, I got soemthing from Amazon.com offering Neal Rosenthal's book alonside yours. "Buy Them Together and Save". Funny, no? I just had to pre-order.
Blogs are cool. I dig blogs. These days they comprise the lion's share of my wine-related reading. And my celebrity-related reading. And my fashion-related reading. I keep waiting for a "Perez Hilton Wine Report..."
M.
Ah, merdre! I meant "Wine & Spirits", not "Food & Wine". It's the blasted "&". Always gets me. It's like people with mohawks. No matter what color, length, color or firmness they may be, the individuals wearing them, regardless of sex, meld into "mohawk" in my mind. I wonder if the same "&" phenomenon would apply to "Sound & Vision", "Town & Country" or "Field & Stream", if I started perusing them regularly.
You really don't have a TV? Wow!
M.
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