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a moment of silence

Posted in 毛血旺雜碎 miscellaneous on October 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Last night I left a 6-day fieldwork from somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I needed to travel with a old stylish ferry back to civilization. When I got on boat, the sun was almost gone. I could only hear engine and breeze. It was a silent evening.
 It was not finished, however, my message was [...]

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Back to wines – bottle shapes

Posted in 花天酒地 J'aime du vin on October 9, 2006 | 1 Comment »

The last whole week I was kind of disconnected with the virtual world. I even had no mood to write anything here, as I was too stessful to find out the real problem of my computer. As today my computer at home is finally working fine and I am very free at my work today [...]

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this sucks — better than death

Posted in 毛血旺雜碎 miscellaneous on October 6, 2006 | 1 Comment »

desktop at home got virus and is dead.
My computer has a new windows and all my files in c drive are gone. Luckily, my old data, including photos or stuff are in d drive. All my memories are in d drive, i couldnt imagine if they are busted, how I will react…cry? the memories since [...]

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Médoc – area of Bordeaux

Posted in 花天酒地 J'aime du vin on October 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

map from: http://www.stratsplace.com/maps/f_medoc.html
Medoc is situated at the left bank of Garonne River in area of Bordeaux. The primary variety of grapes is cabernet sauvignon. The growing season in Medoc is 2 weeks longer than in Saint Emilion at the right bank of the rive as the water moderates the cold fronts. As a result, cabernet [...]

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Wine from Pak’n Shop ($85HKD)

Posted in 花天酒地 J'aime du vin on October 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Okay…I bought a bottle of wine at Pak’n Shop today, coincidentaly I bought one which is manufactured purposely for A.S. Watson Wine. Its brand name is Cellar Selection, which means it doesnt belong to any of Chateaux. Anyways, the wine is blended in Medoc, a region within Bordeaux. It has “Appellation Medoc Controlee” however it [...]

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Variety of Grapes

Posted in 花天酒地 J'aime du vin on October 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I am learning all of grapes from this link:
http://www.cellarnotes.net/key_grape_varieties.html
The previous post I mentioned about 8 types of grapes (5 for red wines – rouge and 3 for white wines – blanc).
Red wines:
The first one is Cabernet Sauvignon. I believe it is too common and well, in fact I just have known these days that [...]

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Bordeaux

Posted in 花天酒地 J'aime du vin on October 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Taking Bordeaux as the first lesson, in fact many districts/regions in Bordeaux are famous in producing wines.
Map of Vineyards of Bordeaux
Bordeaux is located at southwestern France and those famous vineyards include Medoc, Pomerol, St.Emilion, Graves and Sauternes.
Medoc at the same has been divided into many sub-regions, some famous are St. Estephe, Pauillac, St. Julien, haut-medoc [...]

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When I fall in love with French wines

Posted in 花天酒地 J'aime du vin on October 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Since last Friday I went to the wine tasting gathering, I start having interest to know the details of French wines and how to read wine labels. Friend I is a surfer and she immediately gave me a website which talks about wines in a very easy way. Coincidentally I will learn French in 2 [...]

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