Welcome to binNotes | Red Thread™, your source for inspired stories about food, wine and travel.
By L.M. Archer, FWS | Bourgogne ML
Each first Friday of every month through 2016, I’ve invited some of my fellow wine writers the opportunity to join me here on binNotes | Red Thread™ to share a feature on some rare, obscure, or under-appreciated wine region for which they feel a special passion.
I hope you enjoy their stories as much as I do.
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First Friday | № 3| Guest Writer: Erika Szymanski
The Joyful Paradox of Non-Icon Wines and New Zealand Chardonnay
This month I turn the page over to Erika Szymanski, academic researcher at University of Edinburgh, writer, graduate student in science communication with a focus on wine and the wine industry at the University of Otaga, and author of The Wineoscope, a site about ‘Wine science, wine rhetoric, and other geekery.’
The Wineoscope, a site about ‘Wine science, wine rhetoric, and other geekery.’
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“Everyone makes chardonnay. Chardonnay is therefore ubiquitous and boring. Everyone makes chardonnay. Chardonnay is therefore endlessly diverse and interesting. If you like chardonnay, you’re never going to run out of wines to try, and with just a little effort they’re all (okay; mostly all) going to taste different. Read more…“
Erika Szymanski, academic researcher, write, graduate student in science communication with a focus on wine and the wine industry.
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