Denman Moody is a wealth of wine knowledge. Along with his delightful wife Marijo, he has traveled the world studying wine. We asked Moody, an avid story teller and author of a new book The Advanced Oenophile, if he could share one of our favorite Denman stories.
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Reality: The Myth. On Super Bowls and Santorini
While I am serving snacks during half-time of the Super Bowl, I am forced to watch a 53-year old Madonna lip-syncing her greatest hits. Then comes the pom-poms and the cheerleader skirt. Are you SERIOUS, I say aloud? This is what has become of my generation?
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ABC Club members tend to be easy to spot. Along with repeating the mantra elucidated above, they know all of the important rules required to be cool kids in the wine world: It is important that red wine goes in the big glass and white in the small, otherwise it is ruined.
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The Urban Sonoma Experience
The Association of African American Vintners’ wine tasting took place in a beautiful courtyard with vine laden trellises and a waterfall wall — an added bonus to the beautiful weather that was great for walking around outside sipping on red and white wines (anywhere else but Houston).The Texas Wineauxs could not wait to experience the first taste of wines seldom heard of outside of the state of California. The exception being Mac McDonald’s Vision Cellars whose Pinot Noir won Top Red Wine at the 2011 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo International Wine Competition.
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Celebrate Sauvignon Blanc Day!
Hanging in the Balance with The Lady Chablis
It’s funny how the mind can go from point A to point B to point C in what appears to be perfectly logical succession. How an interview about democracy, corporate power and media leads to murder, a movie and wine.
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