tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877981989432789312024-03-13T12:29:33.034-04:00Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks AssociationA society for the has-beens and runners-up in the merry chase of wine writing. The B Team meets the C Team...Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-17974629161091386632014-04-01T00:28:00.001-04:002014-04-01T00:28:28.617-04:00A WINE WRITER'S DIARY a B-Team report for April 1<DIV dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma'; COLOR: #000000"> <DIV style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'> <DIV dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma'; COLOR: #000000"> <DIV style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'> <DIV dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma'; COLOR: #000000"> <DIV style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'> <DIV dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma'; COLOR: #000000"> <DIV style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'> <DIV dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma'; COLOR: #000000"> <DIV style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'>SUNDAY<BR><BR>Woke up this morning with a shattering headache, one I had not experienced <BR>since<BR>my college days…What was it? Why was it? Seemed like a hangover to me, <BR>although<BR>I seldom overindulge these days with alcohol. And then it hit me…A group of <BR>us<BR>were watching the DVD of "Sideways" and we all went for a bunch of garbage<BR>bowls. It was a massive chugalug of the spittoons after a raucous evening of<BR>taste and spit. I seem to recall that I took no notes of the aromas and <BR>textures<BR>of the spittoon, but a card in my pocket said that I had won both the speed <BR>and<BR>the quantity contest. Thank god we didn't sample any merlots last time or <BR>I'd be<BR>SOL!!!<BR><BR>The afternoon was spent prioritizing my wine and food activities for the <BR>week.<BR>As a B-team wine writer, I don't get to do all the things that the A-team <BR>does<BR>(these are the writers for the dailies and the consumer magazines).<BR>Let me see: this week there are a couple of trade shows (including one from<BR>a B-team wine region, in desperate need of any kind of exposure), a lunch <BR>with a<BR>producer; a lunch with a trade commission wine guy; a dinner theatre which <BR>needs<BR>some publicity (we usually call it "ptomaine theatre"), plus the<BR>consultations/advisements on wine lists, wine clubs, etc. etc. Alas, my <BR>radio<BR>spot was cancelled last week when somebody asked which wine went with pussy, <BR>and<BR>– without missing a beat -- I gave him a choice of sparkling apricot or <BR>sweet<BR>riesling. The station was not amused; the next wine writer will get a five<BR>second delay…It is a jungle out there.<BR><BR><BR><BR>MONDAY –<BR><BR>Up at 5 AM to begin writing on the inside of my eyelids...I've got a few <BR>story<BR>ideas that are best processed in bed. By 7 AM I have it all laid out, and I <BR>can<BR>begin the day. I have a rowing machine, which I use when the inclement <BR>weather<BR>looks too forbidding for my 10K run. Usually when I row I watch a DVD of a<BR>silent or a foreign film: no noise, no interruptions, and plenty of reading.<BR>Sometimes, for an English language film, I'll turn on the subtitles, still<BR>keeping the sound off. This works wonders for many BritComs where I can't <BR>quite<BR>catch the accent in time to process it – before the next joke occurs. Today <BR>I<BR>feast on the food scene in "Tom Jones"...Makes me hungry just writing about <BR>it.<BR>I get a phone call from the ICE (Italy) reminding me of today's technical <BR>wine<BR>seminar, and would I please be on time? Of course, I lie…These things never<BR>start on time…<BR><BR>I'm off this morning to the Italian wine trade show, which usually happens <BR>at Roy Thomson Hall. After we're searched at the door, we go to pick up the catalogue. <BR>The<BR>show is supposed to be in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. Consequently, <BR>there<BR>are many wines NOT available for tasting in Toronto: I'd have to go to <BR>Montreal<BR>or Vancouver for those…But they are all still listed in the catalogue for <BR>the<BR>sake of economy. The Italians go out of their way to list all the companies, <BR>the<BR>agents, addresses galore, maps, vintage notes, technical notes, names and<BR>vintages of all the wines, grape varieties employed and their percentages. <BR>Wines<BR>are starred and footnoted to indicate whether they are in Vancouver, <BR>Montreal or<BR>Toronto. Clay-based paper is used, and unfortunately, with all this data, <BR>each<BR>catalogue weighs 6 kilos.<BR><BR>I spend some time crossing off those wines not in Toronto (only to find out<BR>later that some of them actually are here!). The technical tasting involves <BR>a<BR>range of presentations from producers in both Italian and English, sometimes<BR>both; it is called for 10:30AM but actually starts at 11. I get there at <BR>10:45<BR>for a good seat, talk to B-team colleagues, start marking up my catalogue.<BR><BR>Lunch is a buffet, the usual standup buffet. I always wear comfortable shoes<BR>(but see my notes for Friday). The banquet table fits my seafood diet: I see<BR>food, I eat it. I walk around trying to taste some 420 wines, realizing that <BR>I<BR>cannot do it. The ones I do taste don't seem to be currently available, the<BR>agent doesn't know when they will be available, nor does he know their <BR>prices or<BR>terms. Occasionally there will be a Principal who does not speak English, or <BR>a<BR>wine director who only knows the FOB price in Euros. Typical of most trade<BR>shows, no matter how much the catalogue weighs or how it is laid out…I move <BR>on<BR>through the jungle.<BR><BR><BR>TUESDAY –<BR><BR><BR>This morning I get down to writing. Then there is a "lunch" meeting with a<BR>producer at the LCBO's Scrivener Square Private Tasting Room. The wine press<BR>here is a mixture of A- and B-team players. Occasionally, a Product <BR>Consultant<BR>or staffer from the LCBO will there with us. Today we have a winemaker <BR>speaking<BR>about his ten wines. Three of the wines are in the General List, another two <BR>are<BR>in the Vintages system, one is here on consignment, another is being <BR>proposed<BR>for the General List (this one seems to have the most publicity material in<BR>front of it), one more is coming to Vintages, one is a definite Private <BR>Order<BR>(but could we please say something about it, to encourage sales?), and the <BR>last<BR>one is a new vintage (or it could be a barrel sample). This is the typical<BR>lineup. The producer rep is accompanied by four agent reps, sometimes five. <BR>And<BR>sometimes the reps outnumber the writers. I've also been to several tastings<BR>and dinners where I was the only writer who turned up! I hate it when "they"<BR>outnumber me…Usually the European (or some other non-US country) producer <BR>rep is<BR>either an Export Director or the Winemaker. Some of the larger non-US <BR>producers<BR>have Export Directors who live in California or New York City, and they come <BR>up<BR>to Toronto. It is extremely rare for a producer to come with two or more <BR>wine<BR>people, since most matters can be handled by the local agent. My strategy <BR>has<BR>always been to directly engage the visitor by asking relevant but off-topic<BR>questions. The Export Director is always talking about marketing facts and<BR>figures; I always ask about percentages of grape varieties, winemaking<BR>techniques, the latest vintage conditions. Sometimes they know this stuff. <BR>The<BR>Winemaker is always talking about viniculture and viticulture, the <BR>expression of<BR>the grapes/wine through his vision, and the like; I always ask about export<BR>figures, where Ontario stands in the world markets, pricing policy, bottle<BR>shapes. Keeps 'em all on their toes, especially the local agent…<BR><BR>The "lunch" is cheese, bread, salami, grapes. It is sustaining. I remember being at <BR>one<BR>wine tasting at 6 PM in the Four Seasons. The agent provided nothing: no <BR>food,<BR>no bread, not even water. I had to take a wine glass to the hotel john to <BR>get<BR>tap water…<BR><BR>This afternoon I visit a few restaurants to set up wine lists and talk about <BR>the<BR>Bring Your Own Wine program. Ptomaine theatre is also on the list. Most<BR>restaurateurs know little about wine's selling potential: they rely on<BR>consultants and sommeliers. I swing on a few vines through the jungle.<BR><BR><BR><BR>WEDNESDAY –<BR><BR><BR>I'm meeting with a trade commission person responsible for wine in Ontario <BR>from<BR>his country: he is going to outline a trip for me. But I don't want to go <BR>(too<BR>far, too long). He tries to convince me of the deep background, the<BR>familiarization tour (famtour). I agree, but it is not my style. Instead, I <BR>try<BR>to persuade him to let me sample some of his country's wines. Could he not <BR>send<BR>me some samples of wine for my assessment with my own paid-for meals? He pulls <BR>out<BR>a spreadsheet which he says clearly shows that it is actually CHEAPER (for <BR>the<BR>trade commission as sponsor) to send me via air (top filling the seats), put me up in <BR>a<BR>hotel (top fill), ferry me about in a bus (cost spread over participants), <BR>with<BR>the winetastings and meals paid by the wineries involved. Sending me wine <BR>can be<BR>very expensive, with cartage and taxes. It looks convincing, but it is still<BR>unbelievable.<BR><BR>And speaking of sending me wine, the usual dribble of General List wine <BR>bottles<BR>arrive on my doorstep, and I store it for a neighbourhood tasting and party <BR>(see<BR>Saturday) at the usual jungle location.<BR><BR><BR>THURSDAY –<BR><BR><BR>There is a really terrific wine trade show this afternoon, overflowing with<BR>delicious wines and comestibles that meet my seafood diet. One problem: the<BR>catalogue is dreadful. There are no page numbers, there is no order to the<BR>producers, there is no listing of table numbers, there are no agents listed,<BR>half of the wines are not here, and of the wines that are here some are not <BR>in<BR>the catalogue. The direct opposite of the ICE catalogues. One agent tells me<BR>that he is four pages from the centre, to the left side. Okay, I can do<BR>that…After awhile, I throw away the catalogue and just use a blank book for<BR>tasting notes. Trade shows are not the best places to taste wines<BR>professionally: they are actually the worse. They are crowded, there are <BR>food<BR>smells, the producers are too busy talking to one person to pour wine to a<BR>second person, nobody seems to know much about prices or availability, there <BR>is<BR>a definite pecking order both for the A- and B-team wine writers and for <BR>certain<BR>wineries, there are a lot of "unknowledgeable people" floating about, many<BR>gatecrashers, much body odour and many perfume scents, people hang around <BR>tables<BR>after they get a sample when they should be moving away, irrelevant chatter <BR>at<BR>the tasting tables, too much of a "party" feel, spittoons are always in <BR>short<BR>supply and not cleared often enough, water is missing, etc. A jungle, and <BR>not my<BR>favourite activity. Wines can range from 50 samples up through 600, with <BR>about<BR>three hours to sample all of them. Of course, I don't/can't try them all. So <BR>I<BR>sift through the program as far ahead as possible. At one show, the <BR>interesting<BR>catalogue went awry. The wines on the table were in the same order as listed <BR>in<BR>the catalogue. This was okay, if you tasted everything and shuffled along at <BR>the<BR>same speed with the guy ahead and the guy behind. It also helped if nobody<BR>talked to the producer, thus making the line move along. But nobody wanted <BR>to<BR>try everything, and spittoons were far and few between. The catalogue soon<BR>became useless.<BR><BR>I've now rented myself out as a wine trade show consultant for the jungle <BR>life;<BR>it has been added to my resume.<BR><BR><BR>FRIDAY –<BR><BR>Fridays are one of my favourite days: we get to go to the LCBO tasting lab <BR>and<BR>sample many wines and spirits, usually about 120 at a time. For two Fridays a month, <BR>we<BR>do the Vintages release. A third Friday is devoted to General List and (at <BR>one<BR>time until the LCBO stopped offering Classics previews) to Classics <BR>Catalogue:<BR>usually about 50 wines, beers, spirits, coolers in total. Plus the Christmas<BR>Gift Selection. The fourth Friday is also at the LCBO, but at Scrivener <BR>Square,<BR>for the monthly Wine Writers Circle of Canada business meeting, which is<BR>followed by a tasting of submitted wines of all stripes and colours.<BR>Today, though, we needed to suit up for our annual fitting…<BR><BR>Each year at this time the LCBO supplies us with running shoes, in order to<BR>taste all of the wines put out that week. We'll be measured for foot length <BR>and<BR>width, and then our new shoes will be given to us next week. It is really<BR>amazing how quickly these shoes wear out (they're made in<BR>China, just like all the other shoes are). We really need to be light on our<BR>toes and swift of eyeballs, for the LCBO catalogue is full of errors. It <BR>used to<BR>be that we had a proof copy of the Vintages magazine; now, we get a <BR>photocopy of<BR>the final version. So there is no opportunity for corrections to be made to <BR>the<BR>magazine as sent out to customers. Some errors are egregious, other errors <BR>are<BR>ones of judgment. Tasting panel notes can be a year old. The wrong vintage <BR>is<BR>shipped. Spelling errors and omissions happen. Unlike trade shows, the lab <BR>is a<BR>quiet place, well-lit, with about a dozen A- and B-team wine writers, a <BR>place to<BR>write notes, and a sort of casualness. Unfortunately, it is incumbent on us <BR>to<BR>actually taste EVERY wine for our readers, to have that one voice. So this <BR>means<BR>that I absorb alcohol through my gums and cheeks. I don't have a car, and I<BR>certainly take the TTC down and back from the lab. Again, it is a jungle <BR>that<BR>we are constantly being vigilant about.<BR><BR><BR>SATURDAY –<BR><BR>This afternoon I am to host my monthly street party: I gather up all the<BR>General List products and other assorted wines, select a few for a private<BR>tasting, and then put out the rest for my neighbours' opinions. They drift <BR>in<BR>whenever, casual, and sip on a few wines. They may – or may not – make <BR>notes. I<BR>make notes, I gather comments. By the end, I've got enough data, and I've<BR>managed to send off a few half-empty bottles with those who wanted them.<BR><BR>And then it is off to the "Sideways" champion garbage bowl contest. Oh…I <BR>think I<BR>already did that LAST week…Back to the jungle of "Mondovino"; I highly <BR>recommend<BR>the DVD for its extras…<BR><BR><BR>www.deantudor.com<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-23189117170233558432013-04-01T00:24:00.001-04:002013-04-01T00:24:22.558-04:00Mayor Schadenford to announce new job in government.<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16470"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">TRAWNA (GOSH News Services) The Canadian Foxy Wine News Network North has just learned that Mayor Rob Ford (also known as Schadenford) is poised to make a dramatic announcement by <st1:time Minute="0" Hour="12">noon</st1:time> today. Taking advantage of the sleepy Easter Monday non-commute, Mayor Ford had hoped that this one would slip by the media. Indeed, according to our best sources, it appears as if Mayor Ford's announcement will only be made by his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, acting in his place, and thus Schadenford will not be available for comments.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Top investigative wine reporter Brett Grimsby has been following this story for some time now, and he files his report based on several interviews with Miffed Mole, the collective name for our sources who are familiar with the situation, and who spoke to him on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge details while they were very close to the centre of discussions and while the matter under consideration had not yet been finalized nor announced to the public. While the decisions may or may not have been finalized internally, and while an announcement on the matter may or may not be imminent, possibly within the next week or two, that specific timeline is not really known. Sources should not be held responsible for the speculative and/or playful treatment of their research and/or disclosures.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Apparently, Mayor Schadenford has been ousted from office. He had been told to resign by an unnamed team of several thousand well-placed Torontonians. He agreed so long as he could become the new CEO of the</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Liberal Control of Beverages in <st1:State><st1:place>Ontario</st1:place></st1:State>, A Clown, er, Clone, er, Crown Corporation of A Have-Not Province Controlled by Win-Win Wynne. That was the price of his removal. Indeed, according to our well-known "anonymous sources", he has already left the building, that is, City Hall.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Ford's immediate plans certainly involve creating new wines, beers and spirits featuring the well-known "Gravy Train" © TM label. These will roll out over the next few months, heavily pushed by a bevy of former gravy train recipients. Word has also come down, from our more reliable "confidential sources" that he is about to crack open the Oooopsie union. Work will be further contracted out even more than now, but at first only in <st1:place>Western Ontario</st1:place> west of <st1:Street><st1:address>Yonge Street</st1:address></st1:Street>. </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">The LCBO buildings at <st1:place>Queens</st1:place>' Quay will be sold for subway barns and parking lots. The Liquor Transfer Tax will be dropped, allowing for a savings to the taxpayer of eight cents on every bottle of alcohol sold in <st1:State><st1:place>Ontario</st1:place></st1:State>. According to our confidential sources, Schadenford is also looking forward to his own, private rehab room just off from his new offices.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Stay tuned for our special "What the LCBO will be like under Rob Ford" premiering later tonight on this station
</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P></DIV><FONT face=Tahoma> <DIV>Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> </DIV> <DIV></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-36996400319407269622012-04-01T00:14:00.001-04:002012-04-01T00:14:08.328-04:00April job offer at LCBO<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16441"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">TODAY is <st1:date Year="2012" Day="1" Month="4">April 1, 2012</st1:date> also known as April Fool's Day, 2012. To me, it is the most sacred day of the year as it is the one day that I am TOTALLY serious
the rest of the year is a joke, fodder for FauxVoixVinCuisine.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Accordingly, I'd like to announce that I'll soon be getting a new job: Toronto Marketing Manager at the LCBO. They were "looking for a smart, creative and likeable superstar to join our marketing team. As a Marketing Manager, you will lead the strategic and creative development of in-store promotions and multi-media advertising designed to promote LCBO products, generate increased store traffic and sales, and deliver an engaging customer experience."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">They like me for my "Superb verbal and written communication skills to effectively manage staff, direct agencies, designers, photographers and copy writers, and to deliver briefings and presentations." As well as my "Strong creative eye and the ability to produce beautifully designed and compelling communication pieces."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">But first, I need to "Develop strategic marketing plans based on research and analysis, consumer insights, and trends that deliver measurable sales results and customer engagement."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">With my contacts Brett Grimsby and Miffed Mole, I can "Plan, create and implement highly engaging promotions that highlight LCBO as a world-class retailer of beverage alcohol products, a destination for entertaining inspiration and a friendly and approachable source for product knowledge." I can also "Plan, develop and execute in-store <st1:stockticker>POP</st1:stockticker>, merchandising, brochures, free-standing inserts, <st1:stockticker>ROP</st1:stockticker>, radio, out-of-home, TV, and digital communications."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Once I start this job, I'll honourably resign as Treasurer and Member of the Wine Writers' Circle of Canada (conflict-of-interest by-laws), but, of course, after I transfer the several hundred thousand dollars in the Treasurer's account over to my offshore interests
</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">So:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>there will be plenty of gravy available for my fellow WWCC cohorts and colleagues. I'll be calling on you to help supply me with ideas and copy, for which I will pay and for which you will receive credit. I'm looking forward to it all. And you know what? There's probably an app for this job
I'm just sayin'
</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P></DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"> <DIV>Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-13896478163004447822012-02-01T17:35:00.001-05:002012-02-01T17:35:32.210-05:00HoseMaster of Wine<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">The Hosemaster is back!! The funniest wine blog on the Internet (after my own FauxVoixVinCuisine, of course)...Take a look..it is compelling!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV><A href="http://hosemasterofwine.blogspot.com/">http://hosemasterofwine.blogspot.com/</A> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-36426485448716518032011-11-06T12:05:00.001-05:002011-11-06T12:05:55.907-05:00PIIGS Fundraiser in Ontario<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16437"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal>TRAWNA (GOSH Wine News Services) The Foxy Wine News Network, adored by over 4,000 watchers nightly in prime time, today learned that the WGAO, WCO, VQA, and the Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks Association have come together to hold a fundraiser for the PIIGS countries in their time of need. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Top investigative wine reporter Brett Grimsby has been following this story for days now, and he files his report based on several interviews with Miffed Mole, the collective name for our sources who are familiar with the situation, and who spoke to him on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge details while they were very close to the centre of discussions and while the matter under consideration had not yet been finalized nor announced to the public. While the decisions may or may not have been finalized internally, and while an announcement on the matter may or may not be imminent, possibly within the next week or two, that specific timeline is not really known. Sources should not be held responsible for the speculative and/or playful treatment of their research and/or disclosures.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Essentially, the fundraiser (which has still to be approved by the Liberal Control of Beverages in Ontario, A Clown, er, Clone, er, Crown Corporation of a Have-Not Province Under the Thumb of The Grate McGinty) is in support of the poorer wineries and winemakers in those EU countries who are suffering within the Eurozone. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And the WGAO-WCO-VQA-CWHAFA consortium are also part of the enormous pressure being brought to bear on the LCBO to pay the PIIGS countries in a timely fashion for the wines that were imported to <st1:State><st1:place>Ontario</st1:place></st1:State>. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Details on the fundraiser are few, but it is believed to incorporate a baked goods sale, a silent auction of rare wines from non-PIIGS countries, a tent with a BBQ and 40 chefs promoting their tapas, and wines poured by Fruit Wineries of Ontario.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In view of the upcoming "European Autumn", a riff on the Arab Spring, the fundraiser needs to be done sooner rather than later, but organizers fear that government red tape may slow down the event. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Expediency is the order of the day, for any delay brings the PIIGS wineries closer to fiscal disasters, with the resultant drop in prices that can only injure local wine sales in <st1:State><st1:place>Ontario</st1:place></st1:State> (A Have-Not Province).</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal>More on this impending disaster as it happens
</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"> <DIV>Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-77403519673826845902011-10-31T09:35:00.001-04:002011-10-31T09:35:33.644-04:00Validation of LCBO key to a successful future?<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16437"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">TRAWNA (GOSH Wine News Services) Foxy Wine News Network, in conjunction with GOSH Wine News Services, has just learned that the LCBO, also known as the Liberal Control of Beverages in Ontario, A Clown, er, Clone, er, Crown Corporation of A Have-Not Province Controlled by The Grate McGinty, is treating the recent re-election of Grate McGinty as the validation of its existence.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Sources close to the LCBO and to McGinty have been saying that the Corporation (formerly known as "the Board") is now going to start taking a stronger presence and employ press muscle in its search for more money to "give" to the province.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">One of the first things it will do is lean on those wine critics who diss the Corporation's selection of wines and rate its wine inventories below 88. The Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks Association is shocked and appalled at this turn of events.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Said our source: "Every one of our wines is a winner. If it were not so, I would have told you. We have many rooms in our selling areas where we prepare fine wines for the masses. Why bother to speculate with a silly point system?"</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">The Corporation would continue to acknowledge single bottle faults and the like in wines, but in general, they are prepared to stonewall those critics who give low marks to the wines sold at the LCBO.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">"They're taking money out of our pockets! Every low-rated review is a loss of sales and a loss of income to the coffers of this <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Great</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Province</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. The critics need to get on board during this time of economic recovery," said the Corporation.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">The source continued, "We have ways to make them come around. We've also got some other ideas to discourage awarding low numbers. Just watch us."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">More on this unhappy event and squashing of press privilege as it happens
</FONT></P></DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"> <DIV><BR>Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-46469144609019185162011-08-14T12:39:00.000-04:002011-08-14T12:38:44.680-04:00Master of Wine Writing Course syllabus announced<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16434"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">TRAWNA (GOSH Wine News Services) The Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks Association has just announced the course content for its entry level Master of Wine Writing course, MWW I: So You Want to Be<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>a Wine Writer
.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">MWW I topics will include:</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> how to get a kit bag with the name of a vinous conference;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to write a short paragraph extolling the virtues of a wine;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to ask for a golf shirt and/or jacket from a winery;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to make things up and/or get the facts wrong; </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to ask for a Familiarization (FAM) Tour Trip;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to get out of a commitment to write up a media function or trip;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to come to grips with the basic but boring elements of grammar;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to score pens, paperclips, and notepads;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to pretend ignorance;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to diss and respect the LCBO in the same sentence;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to get free wine glasses for life;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- hoe to make yourself indispensable;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to trade a badly-sized media Tee-Shirt for one that fits;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to ask questions at wine functions;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to get a free lunch everyday;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to recognize a wine pariah;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to move up in the pecking order (does not apply to the A Team);</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to get a travel bag emblazoned with the name of a wine region;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to bring dates to wine functions and wine trade dinners; </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to use a camera for "pretend" pictures;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to beg for wine samples and alternate bottles;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">- how to get away with using cologne at wine functions;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">The introductory course, being entry level, is usually taught by guest lecturers, with selected readings and a final examination.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"><BR>Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></P></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-41317371708677738922011-07-31T19:59:00.001-04:002011-07-31T19:59:09.069-04:00Can Wine Hacks and Flacks Association to offer MWW designation<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16430"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">TRAWNA (GOSH Wine News Services) The Foxy Wine News Network, enjoyed by up to 5,000 viewers every night, is pleased to offer, in conjunction with the Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks Association, the beginning of a new online-television education relationship. </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Beginning in Fall 2011, CWHFA (pronounced Kwee-Fah) will be offering through Foxy Wine News Network some new Master of Wine Writing courses leading to the M.W.W. degree (Master of Wine Writing). Kwee-Fah's Registrar said that these courses would not be similar to, nor lead to a Master of Wine or a Master Sommelier designation. </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">"Indeed", he said, "the MWW will be sitting over the MW and the MS. For one thing, it is one letter longer. For another, the MWW is concerned with writing about the same material that the MW and MS comprises, so the MWW has a more integrative construction of base materials. </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2><FONT face="Courier New">"The MWW is a communication degree posited above the MW and the MS in interpretation. We will expound and expand on MW/MS materials and we will explain and demystify wine terms and concepts. The MWW will be able to fashion a credible, readable account of wines and wine tasting without resorting to a "sweaty saddles" or "kerosene" or "petrol" type of terminology. We'll lose such phrases as "Heavy-weight almost focused dessert wine. Whispers of cedar, structured blueberry and scant plum. Drink now through 2012."<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">"We'll also be looking into the type of hard-hitting investigative journalism-type stories that GOSH seems to find every day of the week why aren't the big boy wine writers picking up these stories? Because there are actually TOO many stories..."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">"We hope to have some of these investigative experiences fashioned in writing and on television before the October 6 election, so we can see what the Liberal Control of Beverages in <st1:State><st1:place>Ontario</st1:place></st1:State>, A Clown, er, Clone, er, Crown Corporation of A Have-Not Province Controlled by The Grate McGinty is really up to."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">The Registrar of Kwee-Fah said: "We'll address this investigative issue when the time comes: it'll make a good textbook case for our students to write-up. Just watch us. We'll be everywhere."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Syllabi will go online September 1, while registration opens August 1 at the Foxy Wine News Network's website. More details will be posted later
</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-92221237105925060212011-07-28T15:23:00.001-04:002011-07-28T15:23:53.031-04:00LCBO to generate new revenue strategy ahead of Oct 6 el...<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16430"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">TRAWNA (GOSH Wine News Services) The Foxy Wine News Network, enjoyed by almost 5,000 happy wine drinkers every prime time hour, has just learned that the Liberal Control of Beverages in Ontario, A Clown, er, Clone, er, Crown Corporation of A Have-Not Province Controlled by The Grate McGinty, has decided on yet another revenue-generation strategy to justify its existence and to bring in new dollars to the Liberal Government coffers.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Top investigative wine reporter Brett Grimsby has been following this story for days now, and he files his report based on several interviews with Miffed Mole, the collective name for our sources who are familiar with the situation, and who spoke to him on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge details while they were very close to the centre of discussions and while the matter under consideration had not yet been finalized nor announced to the public. While the decisions may or may not have been finalized internally, and while an announcement on the matter may or may not be imminent, possibly within the next week or two, that specific timeline is not really known. Sources should not be held responsible for the speculative and/or playful treatment of their research and/or disclosures.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Fresh intel suggests that the "still-to-be-verified-by-hacked-voicemail-messages" strategy will supposedly involve such things as:</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">-selling ANY wine made in the world in the <st1:State><st1:place>Ontario</st1:place></st1:State> marketplace, so long as it passes the stringent lab analysis for health safety. The fee for this could rise to $5,000 per analysis per shipment.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">-increasing the number of Vintages offerings, both in wines and in frequency, to accommodate the new selling rules. What is now a bi-weekly release of some 120 wines will soon become a weekly release of some 1200 wines, followed by a DAILY release in 2012, probably offering 500 new wines each day. Importers will be expected to clear and sell out their wines within 14 days, to create space for newer incoming labels. Said a spokesperson, "This should appease those scores of thousands of wine lovers who have been begging for new wines."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">-requesting that wine writers either pay a Friday Casual Day donation to the LCBO or wear a suit, with white shirt and tie. Ladies must wear cocktail dresses. Newer rules, to accommodate tasting 2500 new wines a week in 2012, will be promulgated later, and may involve overnight stays which will be billed to the wine writer.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">-selling advertising on the brown liquor and wine bags.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">-charging wine writers $10 for every day they taste and record wine notes on their laptops in the LCBO sensory labs. The LCBO has never charged for electricity before, but recent building brown-outs have been attributed to media charging their batteries with free electricity. Said a spokesperson, "This bit of gravy has been at taxpayer expense and it must stop."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">-audio broadcasting of wine commercials in LCBO stores;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">-initiating Drive-Through Liquor Stores in heavily urbanized areas.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">The strategy will be implemented after the Civic Holiday weekend, and should generate several millions of Liberal dollars ahead of the October 6 election.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">More on this story as it happens
</FONT></P></DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"> <DIV><BR>Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-42400568327337143242011-06-14T20:28:00.002-04:002011-07-24T17:08:35.672-04:00Huge rise in employment of Kwee-Fah members<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">The Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks Association strongly endorses this partnership...New writing jobs are guaranteed!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><br /></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">NEWSFLASH -- BREAKING NEWS as it happens !!!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">TRAWNA -- (GOSH Wine News Services) -- The Foxy Wine News Network(TM), enjoyed on television by over 4,000 Canadians every night, has joined forces with Winefox.ca.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Originally, Winefox.ca had filed a "cease-and-desist" letter with Foxy Wine News Network(TM), believing that Winefox.ca had prior exclusive rights to the words "fox" and "wine". They refused to believe in the existence of the Foxy Wine News Network(TM).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">But that was before due diligence showed that Foxy Wine News Network(TM) is a viable subsidiary of GOSH Wine New Services. Both legal teams have spent some time in coming up with a solution. It turns out that Winefox.ca is interested in some of the assets of the Foxy Wine News Network(TM).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">So: instead of suing Foxy Wine News Network(TM) for $1,000,000, Winefox.ca has bought into the Foxy Wine News Network(TM), taking a minority interest with a silent partner position for that same amount of money.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">From July 1 on, the Foxy Wine News Network(TM) will report on all happenings at Winefox.ca, and Winefox.ca will share in the profits made from 4,000 sets of television eyeballs.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">In the future, there will be other forms of partnerships such as buying wineries, importing wines, selling wine accessories, and other commercial applications. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Foxy Wine News Network(TM), a subsidiary of GOSH Wine News Services, will be reporting on all of these as they happen....</FONT></DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"> <DIV><br />Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></FONT> </DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-46511346898679275412011-04-12T12:00:00.001-04:002011-04-12T12:00:45.117-04:00LCBO to charge wine writers 20 cents for each wine sample<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>TORONTO -- (GOSH Wine News Services) -- In its infinite double quest for creating a level playing field and creating new revenue streams, the LCBO, A Crown Corporation, has apparently decided to DIRECTLY charge wine writers and others who receive free sample bottles of alcohol (wine, beers and spirits) for the twenty cent bottle deposit. The LCBO will soon require all agents and wineries, breweries and distilleries in Canada to inform them of the recipient of the free bottles so that the LCBO might send the recipients an invoice for the deposit. </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>A spokesman at the LCBO said today, "We didn't want the Good People of Ontario, A Have-Not Province, to have to support wine writers by giving them the deposit for free. Some writers get a huge number of samples, and they are able to get a taxable benefit if they didn't initially pay the deposit. We don't believe in subsidizing anybody, certainly not to the detriment of the Good People of Ontario, A Have-Not Province. Fair is fair." </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>An industry source in the LCBO Accounting Department (and one familiar with the situation) said that the deposits on the samples given to some writers is large enough to constitute a taxable benefit. Having just gone through a battle with free perks and the like, with their employees no longer able to receive gifts, the LCBO is apparently going after similar situations in the outside world of alcohol beverage in Ontario. </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>But some writers feel that there is a certain element of tit for tat here. </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Another well-known and respected wine writer feels that this is just another way for the LCBO to keep tabs on who is writing what and how much free wine they receive. After all, "Control" is the LCBO's middle name. </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Still, the Canadian Wine Flacks and Hacks group wonders about the economic advantages. The bottle deposits must be recorded by the producer and transmitted to the LCBO, which then initiates the invoicing process. This last step costs a minimum of $25 for each invoice plus postage. At the end of the chain is the collection agency, which will probably be inevitable. It also invokes painful memories of the Green Permit book.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>One wine blogger who also makes money off the ads on his website said that he might have to declare bankruptcy: "I'm totally dependent on the return deposit fee to buy food each month."</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>More as this story develops...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Chimo! </FONT><A href="http://www.deantudor.com"><FONT size=2>www.deantudor.com</FONT></A></FONT></DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-89573165881008618692011-04-01T00:24:00.001-04:002011-04-01T00:24:55.511-04:00GOSH and Foxy Wine News Network team found dead.<DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">TRAWNA (GOSH/Foxy Wine News Network Services) The entire GOSH Wine News Services and Foxy Wine News Network team has died after consuming a critter wine. </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Early reports show Dean Tudor, Miffed Mole, and Brett Grimsby suffered from serious wounds resembling animal and dog scratches that covered their bodies. Their tongues and mouths, though, were untouched. The pathologist who performed the autopsies said this inconsistency is down to the fact that the three were expert wine tasters with golden SuperTaster palates. Obviously the critter wines were too smooth and innocuous to make dents in their taste buds.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Colleagues said these news editors and writers had recently received threatening notes, which were addressed to them and anonymously left in the broadcast studios of the Foxy Wine News Network. </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Dean Tudor had just spoken an Editorial in the studio slamming the Liberal Control of Beverages in <st1:State><st1:place>Ontario</st1:place></st1:State>, A Clown, er, Clone, er Crown Corporation of A Have-Not Province which had just changed its management model from an Open Mind concept to a Face Value concept.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Brett Grimsby had just turned in his video Editorial favouring the retention of water in CellaredInCanada wines and the subsequent dilution of FruitWines in <st1:State><st1:place>Ontario</st1:place></st1:State>. </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Miffed Mole was about to speak on how we should not allow the sale of the LCBO to private hands, even though Mayor Ford Pinto seems to be going ahead with the move.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">Questions: who let the dogs out? How will this impact on wine writing in <st1:State><st1:place>Ontario</st1:place></st1:State>? Will the freeze on false news affect outstanding lawsuits now that the three leading principals, winners of two major SPIFFY Awards, are no longer with us?</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2 face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Courier New">A memorial programme will be announced shortly, in conjunction with CellaredInCanada wine service. Stay tuned for more PR broadsides from "Harpy Government" communications and "Ford Pinto Nation" rebuttals. </FONT></P></DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"> <DIV><BR>Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></FONT> </DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-85635120132308327972011-03-16T19:51:00.001-04:002011-03-16T19:51:05.067-04:00GOSH and Foxy Wine News Network being investigated<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19019"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">The CRTC plan to lift ban on false news prompts political investigation February newspaper headline.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT face="Century Gothic">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">TRAWNA (GOSH Wine News Services) The multiple award-winning GOSH Wine News Services has confirmed that it is under investigation by Parliament for spreading false or misleading wine news. Its sister company, Foxy Wine News Network, is similarly being looked at.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">A CRTC proposal that could make it easier to broadcast false or misleading news has prompted confusion and criticism among opposition MPs and consternation to many of the unions that represent Canadian journalists.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">It has also led to allegations of interference by the Prime Minister's Office and a hastily called investigation by federal politicians.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">"I don't know when I've been so pressed for details," said Dean Tudor, founder and co-owner of FauxVoixVinCuisine and Foxy Wine News Network (both are owned by GOSH Wine News Services). "This has been all so self-referential. Why now????"</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">A Parliamentary group has been pressing the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for years to do something about a regulation that bans the broadcast of false or misleading news because the wording appears to contravene the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">The commission recently announced it was proposing to change the wording of the regulation to say that it applied only in cases in which broadcasters knew the information was false or misleading and that reporting it was likely to endanger the lives, health or safety of the public. </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"We've looked everywhere to try to find out who's pushing this, and we can't find anybody," said a spokesperson for the unions. But GOSH Wine News Services has deep sources who insist that the action has been spearheaded by the Liberal Control of Beverages in Ontario, A Have-Not Province, in order to try to shut down the GOSH/FauxVoix/Foxy Wine News Network complex, citing issues related to the health and safety of members of the public. </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">One example has been the amazing success of Freggie, the all-fruit and vegetable ICB wine which has been shown to be all too healthy, and is taking away sales from other ICBs on the shelves. As most intelligent readers know, Freggie does not exist except in the mind of Dean Tudor. Yet sales demand for this product continue to plague the liquor and wine stores of <st1:State><st1:place>Ontario, A Have-Not Province.</st1:place></st1:State></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">But as an opposition spokesperson said, "We all know our Prime Minister well enough to say we don't have to be in the realm of conspiracy theory here. We can draw our conclusions and they are pretty clear."</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">Behind the scenes, officials say the timing is purely coincidental, the PMO had nothing to do with it, and that the CRTC simply realized it eventually had to answer the concerns of the regulatory committee.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New">More on this story as it happens
</FONT></P></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"> <DIV><BR>Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></FONT><BR><BR>--<BR>Posted By Dean Tudor to <A href="http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com/2011/02/gosh-gosh-and-foxy-wine-news-network.html">FauxVoix VinCuisine</A> at 2/27/2011 12:00:00 PM</DIV></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-90148762107006708982011-02-18T15:27:00.002-05:002011-07-24T17:10:12.432-04:00CWHFA (Kwee-Fah) Adopts NOT<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19019"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">TRAWNA – (GOSH Wine News Services) – GOSH Wine News Services has just learned that there has been widespread adaptation by various wine writing groups, such as the Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks Association, of the word "NOT".<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">Apparently, the key word NOT is now being used in </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">Canada</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"> to mean one different concept when said in context of another concept, and that the two could be mutually exclusive but only in certain circumstances, as in "Not necessarily bilingualism, but bilingualism if necessary".<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">For example, it is now permissible to speak of VNOTQA wines such as the former CellaredInCanada™ or (the newly minted term) InternationalandCanadianBlends™. These are, of course, VNOTQA wines. Similarly, the new ICNOTB wines can be quite parallel to the VQA wines, and indeed will be priced as such. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">The LCBO, according to "Not the Nine O'Clock News", will have to contend with its rival, the LNOTCBO, which is responsible for home made wine, (not) Fruit Wines of </SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">Ontario</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">, and the FauxVoixVinCuisine website. Of course, the whole matter should be non-referential except for that latter sentence. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">Both the LCBO, a Clown, er, Clone, er, Crown Corporation of A Have-NOT (that word again!!) Province, and the LNOTCBO, A Have Province Unto Its Own, will stock the ICNOTB and VNOTQA wines together, on the same shelf.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">GOSH has also learned that this use of the word NOT has been both endorsed and authorized by the Federal Government of Canada, to appear on all official documents.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">Indeed, the funding grant given to Paroles Canada Words (the agency responsible for the creation and maintenance of Canadian words in play) </FONT></SPAN><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">plainly stipulates that wherever possible the words NOT and NE…</SPAN><st1:stockticker><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">PAS</SPAN></st1:stockticker><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"> are to be both employed and enjoyed irrespective of actual meaning and circumstance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">More on this story as it develops……NOT<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<br />Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-52491186078011708272011-01-09T18:36:00.001-05:002011-01-09T18:36:33.058-05:00Quee-Fah The Mother of All Wine Apps<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18999"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">TRAWNA (GOSH Wine News Services) GOSH reveals that the world-renowned Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks Association (Quee-Fah) has been developing a new wine app for mobiles. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">To be called, simply, The Mother Of All Wine Apps (MOAWA), it features drop-down menus galore and a patented winnowing process via a simple question-and-answer processed routine. Suggestions can be saved and printed out.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">It'll be extremely useful for spur of the moment recommendations, for scanning store shelves, for restaurant suggestions, and for wine snobs.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">Version 0.9 is in beta, and will cover the following <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-detailed information on all the wine basics, including every one of the 17,000-plus wine regions of the world, every single vintage note since the 11<SUP>th</SUP> century for each of these regions, all of the 24,578 grape varieties grown, and terroir microclimate notes (with accompanying Google maps and Google historical maps for every 12-hour period in the history of the earth). There is also a long detailed history (with artwork) of winemaking, beginning with the Sumerians.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-detailed travel notes to each one of these 17,000-plus regions, with new regions being added daily. Notes include the usual (accommodations, food, points of interest, local wines)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-detailed descriptions of viticulture, including life in the vineyard, the cycle of the grapevine (from grape to basket), organic and biodynamic techniques, with a selection of horns.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-detailed descriptions on how to taste and appreciate wine, with material about red, white and rose wines, sparkling wines, dessert wines, fortified wines even fruit wines! There are literally scores of millions of wine choices by taste and style (when associated with a region or a country or a meal or food choices). <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">-wine and music choices. MOAWA has a database of every single piece of music created since 20,000 </SPAN><st1:stockticker><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">BCE</SPAN></st1:stockticker><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">, all nicely reconciled with the wine database. There are mood and spirit relationships with the wines and the notes. You are only three touch screens away from millions of wine and music recommendations, custom tailored to your musical preferences and to the preferences of all of your friends via Facebook, MySpace, etc. Make your own "wine ringtones" from any number of eight-bar samples that are created from every single tune ever written.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-wine and literature. References are indexed to every single piece of literature, play and cinema, all cross-referenced for your convenience. Wines are listed in context of the prose so that you can begin to spout words at two touches of the screen.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-a directory to some 12.5 million wineries on this planet, complete with names and addresses, websites, capacity, grape varieties used, rated-ranking notes, names of top employees and winemakers, full tasting notes on every single commercially available wine (plus any experimental wines), tasting notes on library and earlier vintages, and tax filings. The system also has the capacity to add notes for every single vine growing in the winery's vineyard; this will be offered with MOAWA 2.0! Everything here is cross-referenced and itemized, accessible with only three screen touches!!!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-a directory of every single wine store and branch location in the world, with complete names and addresses, websites, labels and wines for sale (plus how much stock for each), rated-ranking notes, names of top employees and wine advisers, and full tasting notes on every single commercially available wine -- exclusively written by that store's staff. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">[NB: For proprietary legal reasons, the Liberal Control of Beverages in Ontario (LCBO) directory is not available to the Good People of Ontario, A Have-Not Province. One member of the CWHFA suggested that you could purchase MOAWA through the offshore grey market]<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">-a Google directory (with full analysis) to every single wine collector in the world (minimum range: 800 bottles or $15,000 appraised value), complete with a </SPAN><st1:stockticker><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">GPS</SPAN></st1:stockticker><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"> location finder and a security camera to determine the whereabouts of the owner at every moment of the day.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-a directory to every single one of the 42 million hotels, restaurants, bistros and cafés in the world that sell wine, with names, addresses, websites, employees, wine cards, stocks, etc. It is updated every time a bottle of wine is sold or taken from inventory. There is also a sorting capability by selling price, enabling you to see at a glance what the current restaurant price is for the wine plus local taxes and local tips (in either Canadian or US dollars plus Euros if needed). Every single wine card on the planet has been analyzed and cross-referenced to find you the best wine value in terms of what food you want to eat no matter where you are in the world!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-a directory and finding aid for each of the 12,000 wine auction houses in the world. This will enable you to constantly check on the current status of the value of your wine collection. Prices can be sorted by 78 different parameters, including the upper limits that taxation agencies will accept for charitable donations. There is also a subset for every single charity in the world that will issue a tax receipt for a donated bottle of wine. The MOAWA has the ability to run the wine-auction database against the wine store database, your personal cellar database, and against the charity database (with reported wine donation tax receipts) in order to find you the BEST deal for your donated wine, automatically factoring in cost of shipping from your home cellar.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-suggested wine and food pairings for every single food, wine, cooking method, spicing component, and the like, that has ever been developed by mankind. You can pick through wines with meals or wines with foods, wines for every occasion in any of the 15,000 religious and government statutory (and non-statutory) holiday calendars of the entire world.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">There is also a reverse lookup function via food pairings for your wine. Each food-wine match is rated on how close it comes to Nirvana; a rating of 90 means that it is 90% close, as in Perfection Salad.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-there is also a spectacular wine and cheese matching subset that is so involved and detailed that we have no space here to cover it, except to mention that every single molecule of wine and every single molecule of cheese is covered,<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">-a word-by-word Boolean index to every single PRINTED wine tasting note in all the major </SPAN><st1:stockticker><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">AND</SPAN></st1:stockticker><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"> the minor books and periodicals ever published as regards wine. We estimate this database to contain titles of some 5,400,260 unique newsletters and magazines (not to mention the frequency of them all) and 400,000 books guaranteed at least 4,775,000,000 (and counting) notes. This includes Parker Junior who fought the CWHFA at every turn. Join us with the "creative writing bot": write your own wine reviews of wines you have tasted, based on our suggestions for phrases used by other reviewers! A boon to budding wine writers!!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-a detailed and comprehensive, cross-referenced word-by-word Boolean index to the 7.5 billion wine blogs on the Internet, and to email versions of wine newsletters a resource worth the price of the app by itself.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-notes on how to build any one of 10,000 different wine cellars from scratch, with at least 1 million different wine recommendations (updated). There are also several scores of cellar management software programs to pick and choose from, including manuals and simulations.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-how to keep track of your own wine notes, backed up continuously. This edition allows you to tag and snag a label image for your personal tasting records, in addition to finding wine-food pairing notes for the table.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">-a social networking feature that lets you post wine notes to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yuwie, Ning, MySpace, Google Buzz, Flickr, Orkut, LinkedIn, Ustream and others as necessary. In addition, you'll be able to retrieve any of the 8 billion wine notes posted by others to Facebook, etc., in any sequence of retrieval by 84 different parameters. Also, you'll be able to communicate continuously with your other MOAWA purchaser buddies and complain about deficiencies and bugs in the special MOAWA forum. This will lead nicely to MOAWA 2.0. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">The DeLuxe version of MOAWA (available for just a few dollars more) will include "Sensurama", the technique developed by the CWHFA for smelling aromas and bouquets at a distance through your mobile. In addition, there will be full capability for photographing a wine bottle or label, at which point you can receive just about everything ever written on that particular wine within nano-seconds. Be informed!! There is also a translation function that will allow you to recall any text ever written about wine in any of some 25,000 languages and dialects, including Tagalog and Esperanto. An optional pull-out corkscrew is also available for those who are convinced that the corkscrew will not go away.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New"><st1:stockticker><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">AND</SPAN></st1:stockticker><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA">, of course, there is a continual stream of massive updates every second of the day, with major updates being announced by a gong. For example, every time a bottle of any wine is sold or comes off a bottling line, the winery and wine store databases are updated. Current vintage releases from every winery in the world will be available to you as it happens. Your personal preferences will also be reconciled.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">And the best part of it is this: YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET for the basic flash drive module! That's right all of this data resides in flash memory inside your mobile device. You pay just once for the basic setup data ($1.99 or $4.99 for the DeLuxe model featuring Sensuroma, TagALabel, TranslateWine(TM) and Corkscrew). <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">Updates, though, will cost you some money and for these updates you must be connected to the Internet. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">While The Mother of All Wine Apps is still in beta testing mode, the CWHFA plans to offer the service at a flat rate of $1.99 for the basic app (as outlined above), $4.99 for the Deluxe version, and $17 a year for the continual updates. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">How is all this accomplished? Two words:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>CCTV and RFID. </FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">The Treasurer of the CWHFA has gone on the record as saying that the Quee-Fah expects to rake in billions of dollars this year.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">The CWHFA has hired master huckster Dan Aykroyd who has his own winery in Ontario to handle the sales
.so, come on down!!!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"><FONT face="Courier New">More on this story as the MOAWA passes beta
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Chimo! <A href="http://www.deantudor.com">www.deantudor.com</A> AND <A href="http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com">http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-11429513085182958402010-12-08T16:53:00.001-05:002010-12-08T16:53:08.463-05:00Liquor Boards to License Wine Writers in Canada<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18975"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>This just in from WNS (Weird News Service) --</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>TORONTO -- (WNS) -- The Liquor Control Boards of Canada has today announced that <BR>it will begin licensing alcohol beverage writers in Canada. A spokesman for the LCBs, <BR>who asked to be nameless, said that this would be yet another source of revenue for the <BR>coffers of the provincial governments. "We like to grab a lot of money from the alcohol <BR>beverage industry. It makes us feel good, and it pads our bottom line."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Exemptions would be made, of course, for those writers who contribute to the government's own<BR>"Food and Drink" and "Cellar" magazines. But other publications such as "Toronto Life", "Tidings", <BR>"Vines" , "TAPS" and "Wine Access" would be forced to hire only licensed wine<BR>writers or writers from other countries. Newspapers and broadcasters will also have to <BR>apply for licensed writer status.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Accreditation would be essential, according to the government. There will be no <BR>grandfathering. Each writer would have to pay to take an online course, which is <BR>several weeks in duration, followed by a comprehensive fault and flaw analysis tasting, <BR>followed by a tasting of Ontario and BC wines (not necessarily VQA and not necessarily grapes). <BR>Beer and spirit writers will have their own nosing programs.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Those who succeed in these endeavours will be invited to take the test which is a <BR>necessary prelude to the licensing process. There will be testing fees and annual levies <BR>assessed for membership. It is also anticipated that the liquor boards will receive a 15% royalty <BR>on all alcohol beverage writing fees, but it is unclear whether these funds will come from <BR>the publication or from the writer or, as in the case of wine auctions, from both. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>All writing about alcohol in Canada must be submitted to the provincial Quality Assurance <BR>Laboratories for controls over the expressions in writing and the actual tasting notes, for a <BR>fee. Any re-submissions, extra proofreading, and heavy copyediting will be assessed a <BR>separate fee, which must be paid by the writer and not the publication. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When asked about photographs, the spokesperson denied their existence. "We get <BR>all our shots from stock libraries". When asked about blogging, he said that <BR>"Everybody blogs. Nobody has any time to read any of them
we really don't care."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Administration of the provincial programs will need some co-ordination, and is expected to take up some time, perhaps employing over 100 civil servants in the operation.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Creator of Canada's award-winning wine satire site at <A href="http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com">http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-37059436008609333562010-11-21T16:31:00.002-05:002011-07-24T17:10:39.230-04:00CWHFA (kwee-fah) to form new Early Departure Committee<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">It was announced earlier today that the Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks Association will be setting up a new committee, called the Early Departure Committee.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">This has been in response to many complaints from the wine industry that CWHFA (pronounced: quee-fah) members were accepting invites but then leaving tastings at an early hour.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Said the Prez of the CWHFA (pronounced: quee-fah), "Too many of our members have been taking advantage of the lax mood of the wine industry. They RSVP, turn up on time, sit around (or stand around) waiting for non-CWHFA members to arrive, and then just take off as soon as they can, usually just after the main course. Indeed, we have noticed some members ordering coffee just after the soup. This has just all got to stop."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">The EDC may, of course, refer the matters over to the Ethics Commitee which may then issue one or more "Certificates of Dispensation" to the appropriatre parties upon proper payment of fees.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Creator of Canada's award-winning wine satire site at <A href="http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com">http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-32981108251867824052010-11-10T21:00:00.001-05:002010-11-10T21:00:40.900-05:00New iPhone App to announce wine functions for CWHFA members.<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">The CWHFA (pronounced: quee-fah) is happy to announce that it has developed a new iPhone application for its members. The app is free, but you must be a member of the CWHFA group in order to download and access it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">It's being seen by many as a major perk of membership.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">The app, called Wino Function, has been developed with the co-operation of the wine industry. Simply put: your iPhone will beep continuously starting at 20 minutes before the beginning of any wine function in the GTA. Or, if you live in the Canadian hinterland of Lake Erie, Winnipeg, Halifax, or Prince Rupert, the beeps will start 20 minutes before any wine function in your own area or region. The beeps are bilingual, but closely match the harmonics of "How Dry Am I?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">By picking up the phone, you will receive a text message itemizing details of the upcoming tasting. Depending on where you are at the time, you may never be late for another tasting again. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">It is considered a boon for those who attend several functions a day, because in addition to the announcement of the next upcoming tasting, there will always be a handy list of excuses for an early departure from a currently happenng tasting.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Creator of Canada's award-winning wine satire site at <A href="http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com">http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-40369423109488081742010-10-31T15:49:00.001-04:002010-10-31T15:49:22.354-04:00Membership Dues Rise from Zero to $25 for Quee-Fah<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">GOSH Wine News Services -- Breaking story -- The introductory period of FREE membership in the new CWHFA (pronounced quee-fah) has passed.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=Section1> <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Canadian Wine Hacks and Flacks Association welcomes all sommeliers, consultants, and bloggers to join us for the ridiculous rate of $25 a year. Our only stipulation is that they not be paid any money directly by wine producers or trade associations. Barter and trade, free samples, trips, and the like are okay alternatives, and welcomed. Our wine suppliers do not send out single bottle samples; they only send out full cases of the product. That's a magnanimous dozen bottles of a single wine to try with every conceivable food choice. Plus, through our exclusive contacts at the liquor boards of Canada, we guarantee total access to the tasting labs for the new releases...with no cap on numbers!!.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Creator of Canada's award-winning wine satire site at <A href="http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com">http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com</A></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-34539402428971244242010-10-24T10:33:00.003-04:002011-07-24T17:11:06.350-04:00CWHFA (Kwee-fah) initiates Certificate of Dispensation.<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">The new Ethics Committee of the CWHFA (pronounced Quee-fah) has decided to move ahead with allowing its members to have a conflict of interest or even the appearance of a conflict of interest.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">But there are two stipulations: there must be a "Certificate of Dispensation" granted by the Ethics Committee; and this granting can only happen once a month.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">The "Certificate of Dispensation", based on the Roman Catholic Church sliding scale of fees for dispensations, will be $100 for RCs, $150 for others, and $200 for atheists. The Ethics Committee will collect the fees and turn them over to the General Slush Fund (GSF) operated by the CWHFA.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">All of this must still be finalized by the National Executive, but the CWHFA PR spokesperson suggested that would not be a problem. When asked, he said, "No problem".</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Creator of Canada's award-winning wine satire site at <A href="http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com">http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-57443858422957171072010-10-15T17:38:00.002-04:002011-07-24T17:11:31.594-04:00Education Courses announced by CWHFA (Kwee-fah)<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Today, CWHFA (pronounced: quee-fah) has announced that it will begin offering wine courses through its Education Committee.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">The Committee has determined that its first series of consumer education courses will focus on a "Master of Wine Writing" Advanced Level Certificate. Said the Committee Chair, "There's the MW (Master of Wine), and the MS (Master Sommelier). So why not an MWW -- Master of Wine Writing?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">It's a self-referential series of courses. All the basics of wine, all the basics of journalism, all the basics of hackery, all the basics of flackery -- these will be covered over a two year period. And the coverage will be intense.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">The main objective is to self-perpetuate the CWHFA. Through the MWW program, the group will be assured of a continual stream of new members. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">One of the entry-level courses is the mastery of "The Faint Praise Index".</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Creator of Canada's award-winning wine satire site at <A href="http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com">http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-39948230651947200912010-10-05T11:50:00.002-04:002010-10-05T19:30:12.246-04:00Membership rising, but we need more writers from outside the GTA<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">There are now over 45 members in the CWHFA (quee-fa) organization. Unfortunately, just about all of them are in the GTA. I say this because we are a NATIONAL group, and we'd like more members on a NATIONAL basis.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">We want to be from "sea unto sea", so that we can begin our national mandate.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Take a minute to consider our cause: join us if you live outside the GTA.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Regardless or origin, once we get 100 members, we can promulgate ourselves. That's promulgate, not flagellate or fellatiogate.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Creator of Canada's award-winning wine satire site at <A href="http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com">http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-9518563100851659252010-09-29T14:37:00.001-04:002010-09-29T14:37:06.166-04:00Tudor's FaintPraise Index c2002<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">TUDOR'S FAINT PRAISE (75 - 84) TABLE<BR>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<BR>c2002 by Dean Tudor. All rights reserved.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"> <DIV>Tired of having to wonder what to say about a nice, but not exciting, <BR>wine?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At a loss for words after the initial vagueness of "floral"/"berry"/"aromatic"<BR>nose or "light mouthfeel" or "short finish" or "fairly priced"?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Need more descriptors for those wines you've just tasted, and rated <BR>between 75 - 84 ?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>THEN -- look no further than TUDOR'S FAINT PRAISE (75 - 84) TABLE, <BR>which emphasizes the POSITIVE (believe it or not, it does!)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>For a spin, you could use the French or Italian non-cognate translation <BR>of the term, for that (wink-wink) cachet...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dean Tudor, professional wordsmith and member of the Wine Writers' <BR>Circle of Canada, has developed an incipient WHEEL of terms, divided into two<BR>major categories -- and further subdivided into three SUM categories.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>One: Phrases, subdivided into Standard, Useful, and Modest (the SUM of <BR>it)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Two: Words, subdivided into Standard, Useful, and Modest (the SUM of it <BR>all)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All of these words and phrases have been used by dozens of wine critics <BR>in thousands of reviews of wines ranging from 75 - 84 points; the use of <BR>French and Italian is my twist alone...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>PLEASE send me any additions, comments, or changes: your input is vital <BR></DIV> <DIV>I: PHRASES (which can be modified to fit the situation)<BR> =======</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> STANDARD (phrases):</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> - a la mode<BR> - after a fashion<BR> - all in a day's work<BR> - all right<BR> - as expected<BR> - exhausts its possibilities<BR> - follows the mean<BR> - gets the best out of it<BR> - goes on quietly<BR> - in a manner...<BR> - just short of...<BR> - keeps to the middle<BR> - makes the most of it<BR> - manages well-enough...<BR> - matter-of-course<BR> - matter-of-fact<BR> - mighty few<BR> - more or less<BR> - near enough...<BR> - near you<BR> - no surprises<BR> - not in the least...<BR> - on no account<BR> - passes muster<BR> - pretty good<BR> - within bounds</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> USEFUL (phrases):</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> - all-purpose<BR> - does yeoman service<BR> - drink now<BR> - drinkable now<BR> - find useful<BR> - for everbody<BR> - have a use for...<BR> - have some use<BR> - in constant use<BR> - make use of...<BR> - not bad<BR> - of service<BR> - performs a function<BR> - suits one's purpose<BR> - well-known<BR> - well-meant<BR> - well-priced<BR> - worth drinking</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> MODEST (phrases):</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> - avoids excess<BR> - cut-out for...<BR> - hints of...<BR> - in character<BR> - in fair condition<BR> - in good condition<BR> - in some measure<BR> - in the region of...<BR> - manages to...<BR> - non-extreme<BR> - not loud<BR> - not to be taken for granted<BR> - on the brink of...<BR> - on the verge of...<BR> - small-framed<BR> - to a certain extent<BR> - to some degree<BR> - up to the mark<BR> - well-framed<BR> - within an ace of...<BR> - within sight of...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>II: WORDS<BR> =====</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> STANDARD </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> - acceptable (It. gradevole)<BR> - conventional (Fr. classique, conventionnel)<BR> - correct (It. di buon gusto)<BR> - customary (Fr. habituel, coutumier d'usage)<BR> - decent (Fr. convenable, bienseant)<BR> - everyday (Fr. quotidien)<BR> - fair (Fr. moyen)<BR> - familiar (Fr. amical)<BR> - fine (Fr. raffine)<BR> - genuine (Fr. sincere)<BR> - generic<BR> - honest (Fr. honnete)<BR> - household (Fr. famille; It. famiglia)<BR> - impartial<BR> - innocent (It. semplice)<BR> - innocuous<BR> - interesting<BR> - legitimate<BR> - literal<BR> - median (Fr. du milieu)<BR> - mild (Fr. benin)<BR> - moderate (Fr. modique)<BR> - natural<BR> - nice<BR> - neat<BR> - normal<BR> - obvious (Fr. manifeste, evident)<BR> - orthodox (Fr. bien pensant)<BR> - passable (Fr. assez bon)<BR> - pleasing (fr. aimable)<BR> - positive<BR> - proper (Fr. a propos)<BR> - propitious (Fr. propice)<BR> - real (Fr. vrai)<BR> - refinement (Fr. bien eleve)<BR> - regular (Fr. en regle)<BR> - satisfactory<BR> - simple (Fr. candide)<BR> - solid (It. sodo)<BR> - sound (Fr. robuste)<BR> - standard<BR> - straightforward (Fr. sans detour)<BR> - subtle (It. sottile)<BR> - telling (Fr. puissant, efficace)<BR> - tolerable (It. sopportabile)<BR> - traditional<BR> - true<BR> - typical<BR> - uniform<BR> - universal<BR> - unpretentious<BR> - unspecified<BR> - unspoiled<BR> - unstudied (It. spontaneo)<BR> - unvarying<BR> - usual (Fr. courant)<BR> - veritable<BR> - vinous</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> USEFUL</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> - accomodating (Fr. obligeant)<BR> - adaptable (Fr. souple)<BR> - adjustable (It. regolabile)<BR> - amusing (Fr. drole; It. divertente spassoso)<BR> - applicable (It. adattabile)<BR> - approachable<BR> - apt (It. atto, adato, capace)<BR> - available (It. efficace)<BR> - beneficial (Fr. avantageux, salutaire; It. vantaggioso)<BR> - competent (Fr. apte)<BR> - consumable<BR> - contributory<BR> - convenient (Fr. pratique; It. comodo)<BR> - co-operative<BR> - current (It. fiume)<BR> - droll<BR> - edifying<BR> - effective<BR> - effectual<BR> - efficient<BR> - favourable (It. propizio)<BR> - friendly (Fr. amical)<BR> - fun (Fr. plaisant)<BR> - functional<BR> - global<BR> - handy<BR> - healthy (Fr. bien portant)<BR> - helpful (Fr. serviable, secourable)<BR> - immediate (It. prossimo, vicino)<BR> - likeable (Fr. agreable, apprecie, populaire; It. simpatico, <BR>amabile)<BR> - multi-purpose<BR> - obliging (It. compiacente, gentile, servizievole, cartece)<BR> - popular (It. in voga, ben voluto)<BR> - practical (It. fattibile)<BR> - pragmatic<BR> - quaffable (It. tracannare)<BR> - ready (It. abile, pronto<BR> - reasonable (It. ragionevole)<BR> - refreshing (It. ristorare)<BR> - reliable (It. fidato)<BR> - representative<BR> - salutary<BR> - serviceable (Fr. utile)<BR> - sensible (Fr. doue de bonsens)<BR> - suitable (It. adatto)<BR> - supporting (It. sostenere)<BR> - trustworthy (It. fidato, sicuro)<BR> - ubiquitous (It. omnipresente)<BR> - unobjectionable<BR> - unobnoxious<BR> - usable (Fr. utilisable)<BR> - useful (Fr. pratique)<BR> - utilitarian<BR> - valid (It. valevole)<BR> - versatile<BR> - wholesome (Fr. sain)<BR> - worthwhile (It. valore, merito)<BR> - worthy (Fr. digne)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR> MODEST</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> - agreeable<BR> - amicable<BR> - appealing (It. supplichevole)<BR> - aromatic<BR> - attractive (It. attraente)<BR> - calm (It. placido)<BR> - charming<BR> - clean<BR> - comfortable (It. comodo)<BR> - compact<BR> - complaisant<BR> - composed (Fr. assure)<BR> - dainty (Fr. delicat; It. raffine)<BR> - delicate<BR> - detached<BR> - dispassionate (It. imparziale)<BR> - encouraging (It. incoraggiante)<BR> - evanescent<BR> - fetching<BR> - forward (Fr. audacieux)<BR> - fragile<BR> - fragrant (It. odoroso)<BR> - fresh<BR> - fruity<BR> - good<BR> - graceful<BR> - humble (Fr. modeste)<BR> - hushed (It. far tacere)<BR> - lean<BR> - light (It. sparuto, scarno, smilzo)<BR> - lightweight (Fr. leger)<BR> - lively (Fr. vif en joue, plein d'entrain)<BR> - mellow<BR> - modest (Fr. sans pretention)<BR> - muted<BR> - original<BR> - placid<BR> - pleasant (It. gradevole, dilettevole)<BR> - pliant<BR> - polished (It. lucido)<BR> - quiet (Fr. tranquille, paisable)<BR> - rarefied<BR> - restrained (It. restrizione)<BR> - rounded (It. tondetto)<BR> - scented<BR> - self-effacing (Fr. amour-propre)<BR> - slender (Fr. svelte)<BR> - slight<BR> - smooth (Fr. moelleux)<BR> - soft (Fr. tendre, doux)<BR> - steady (It. fermo, soldo)<BR> - sure (It. sicuro)<BR> - sustain (It. provare)<BR> - tenuous<BR> - tranquil<BR> - underrated (It. svalutare)<BR> - understated (Fr. minimise)<BR> - undervalued (It. sminuire)<BR> - unspoiled</DIV> <DIV></FONT><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">Creator of Canada's award-winning wine satire site at <A href="http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com">http://fauxvoixvincuisine.blogspot.com</A></FONT></DIV>Dean Tudorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027150351344396656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087798198943278931.post-53477817233285226582010-09-28T11:37:00.001-04:002010-09-28T11:37:36.603-04:00Ripped from the Headlines<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Century Gothic">CanWine Hackers and Flackers deal with material that has been ripped from the headlines of the day. 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