I solved a wine mystery recently, one that had been bothering me for years. Around the time that The Lady and I bought our home in the Bay Area, I was
allowed able to buy a decent wine fridge, my
Danby 75/100 bottle. Just as I was headed out the door from
Wine Hardware with my affordable new wine storage, I spotted an interesting book on their shelves entitled,
Cold Surveillance. It was interesting not that it was a set of wine memoir columns (right up my alley), but that it was written by a
Wine Country private eye...¿que? I turned back to the counter and added the book to day's purchases!
We're going to be making many new changes and additions here at WineLog.net this year. One of these is a new series of interviews for our blog called "5 Questions With..." The inaugural interview is with the brilliant young documentarian, Rudolf (Rudy) McClain (Twitter), who recently released a real-world, global response to the backlash seen against Merlot following the release of the quirky, blockbuster 2004 film Sideways, based on the novel by Rex Pickett. Merlove is a documentary about a world's love of a grape in the wake of a fictitious (and ironic) slandering, a discovery of a love wine and an understanding of the nuances of terroir.
