{"id":1139,"date":"2018-12-31T15:34:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2019-01-03T19:18:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:18:38","slug":"wine-tasting-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"Wine Tasting Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year that every newspaper and magazine features articles on New Years resolutions.\u00a0 There are always suggestions on losing weight, learning to play the piano and buying a dog.\u00a0 Why should <em>Power Tasting<\/em> be left out?\u00a0 Resolute as we are, we are looking forward to living up to some our own expectations in 2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Enjoy a part of Wine Country where we have never been before.<\/strong> In recent years we have discovered wines in Sicily, Tuscany and Languedoc.\u00a0 Maybe in this coming year we will be sampling Blaufrankisch, Tempranillo or Jacques Capsouto reds.\u00a0 There are no plans yet, but we are eager to go wine tasting wherever the road takes us. We hope that all our readers are open to the experience of discovery that makes wine tasting such a tantalizing pursuit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grapes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1156\" src=\"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grapes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grapes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grapes-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/grapes-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Visit the new homes of old favorites.<\/strong> There are a few Napa Valley wineries that have\u00a0built new tasting rooms because of the damage wrought by earthquakes (Trefethen), the terrible fires (Signorello) or just because they wanted a new place to welcome visitors (Joseph Phelps).\u00a0 We haven\u2019t been to see them yet and would really like to do so.\u00a0 And when we do, we\u2019ll report on them in the pages of <em>Power Tasting<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Go back and try a few places we didn\u2019t like that much in the past.<\/strong> Taking our own advice, we\u2019ll go back, <a href=\"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=102\">because we may fall in love again<\/a>.\u00a0 It won\u2019t be just little, out-of-the-way wineries that we hadn\u2019t heard about before (although we\u2019ll try a few of those as well).\u00a0 There are some internationally known wineries that changed hands, usually in corporate takeovers.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t always been happy with the changes they made, but now that they\u2019ve been in place for several years, it\u2019s worth giving them a second chance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Find wine tasting adventures close to home.<\/strong> <em>Power Tasting<\/em> is based in New York City.\u00a0 There have to be some wonderful wine bars that we haven\u2019t tried yet.\u00a0 Actually, there are a <em>lot<\/em> of wine bars where we haven\u2019t been.\u00a0 Wine tasting is a part of travel but it should also be a part of staying home.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do at least one international comparison. <\/strong>We\u2019ll open bottles of wines made from the same grape or grapes from different parts of the world.\u00a0 We\u2019ve done this before, but it\u2019s been a long time.\u00a0 So maybe Syrahs from Australia, the US and France.\u00a0 Or French, American and New Zealander Sauvignon Blancs.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great way to see how different terroirs lead to unique expressions of the same grapes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Go to San Francisco.<\/strong> We\u2019ll certainly be in California again this year.\u00a0 After all, we\u2019ve tasted there every year since the 1970\u2019s so why\u00a0 stop now?\u00a0 But in recent years we\u2019ve gone straight from the airport to the vineyards and haven\u2019t passed any time in the City by the Bay.\u00a0 It\u2019s time we went back.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eat well when we go wine tasting.<\/strong> We always have.\u00a0 We\u2019re not going to change now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year that every newspaper and magazine features articles on New Years resolutions.\u00a0 There are always suggestions on losing weight, learning to play the piano and buying a dog.\u00a0 Why should Power Tasting be left out?\u00a0 Resolute as we are, we are looking forward to living up to some our own &hellip; 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