by admin | Mar 14, 2023 | Blog
How to Safely Open a Bottle of Bubbly Last summer, an accident with a Prosecco cork forced cyclist Biniam Girmay to withdraw from the famed Giro d’Italia bicycle race. Biniam is from Eritrea and the first Black African to win a stage of a grand tour cycling race. He...
by admin | Feb 28, 2023 | Blog
A mystery of fluid dynamics that was first noticed by Leonardo—and that’s flummoxed scientists for centuries—has apparently been solved. And we are glad for it. Over 500 years ago, da Vinci was watching bubbles floating in water. When you’re the greatest...
by admin | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog
©Gary Larson At some point in the past I read a piece about what’s called the Marginal Utility Theory. It supposedly has to do with economics. The article explained the theory as follows: Imagine you have two farmers. Farmer A has three cows. Farmer B has 100...
by admin | Dec 18, 2022 | Blog
My tasting book is finally “live.” If you’re dangerously excited by that prospect and don’t want to bother with all the descriptive text below, you can just go to the following link on Amazon and order a copy or two: Otherwise, here’s some pertinent...
by admin | Dec 6, 2022 | Blog
Message in the Bottle: A Guide to Tasting Wine, by Tim Gaiser, MS This year’s holiday reading roundup begins with a bit of shameless self-promotion about my new tasting book. I’ve been working on it for over 10 years, and the pandemic finally gave me an...
by admin | Sep 30, 2022 | Blog
As Frenchmen go, he wasn’t exactly Maurice Chevalier or Gérard Depardieu. But what he lacked in charm or good looks he more than made up for in expertise in smelling and tasting spirits–and I will forever be in his debt. I only wish I had learned his name so I...
