Geez there is a 97 seal on the bottle from Winestate .I may have given a 97 rating a couple of times in 15 years. This must be an exceptional wine as the seal (paid for usually by the producer) never lies….right? Someone is not worthy here and it could well be me! Aroma: Blackberry,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Stepping Stone Limestone Coast Shiraz: Who is not Worthy?”
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RKS Travel: Ithaca, New York: Would You Travel 23 Miles for Ice Cream?
On the way to Flemington, New Jersey for a birthday party I stopped off in Ithaca, New York to break up the trip from Toronto. My waitress one night was effusive with her praise about 32 Below Ice Cream Shop located in Van Etten New York. So effusive in fact it necessitated a visit fromContinue reading “RKS Travel: Ithaca, New York: Would You Travel 23 Miles for Ice Cream?”
RKS Travel: Visiting Cornell University in Ithaca, New York: Where to Stay: La Tourelle Hotel Bistro & Spa
Visiting your son and daughter or checking out Cornell University in Ithaca, New York then you might need to book a few nights in lodgings. It is not as if Ithaca is a booming urban area. It has a population of approximately 33,000. You have your “downtown hotels” or you can stay just outside theContinue reading “RKS Travel: Visiting Cornell University in Ithaca, New York: Where to Stay: La Tourelle Hotel Bistro & Spa”
RKS 2024 Film: “A Family Guide to Hunting”: The Consequences of an Explosive Orgasm
In this American short directed by Zao Wang, Eva (Kahyun Kim) and her boyfriend Peter (Craig Newman) are in the high-country hunting deer with Eva’s parents June (Maragret Cho) and Sam (Keong Sim). Peter is one of those self-sufficient as the world is ending believers so Eva killing and field dressing a dear carcass will,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “A Family Guide to Hunting”: The Consequences of an Explosive Orgasm”
RKS 2024 Wine: Escaping Ontario COVID Memories
I recall that during COVID times I went for a tasting with Ed Madronich at Flat Rock Cellars in Jordan, Ontario. Those were eerie times. Can you imagine 50 people at Niagara Falls! Over the years Ed has produced quality Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and I suppose it is time to escape COVID memories andContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Escaping Ontario COVID Memories”
RKS 2024 Film: “Copa71”: Patriarchy, Cash and Greed and the Great Forget
Copa 71 was the first women’s football world championship held in Mexico in 1971. It was scorned by FIFA in its true patriarchal view of football. It was not recognized as a “true championship” even by the Women’s Football Association of England. In 1921 the English Football Association stated any of its members that permittedContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Copa71”: Patriarchy, Cash and Greed and the Great Forget”
RKS 2024 Film: “New Wave”: Vietnamese Escape Artists Groove to the New Wave
Filmmaker Elizabeth Ai weaves an interesting documentary on California’s Vietnamese New Wave craze and the disaffection of many Vietnamese “refugees” that fled to California after the fall of South Vietnam. Ai prefers to call Vietnamese fleeing the communist regime as “escape artists”. Ai was abandoned by her mother being raised by an aunt and herContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “New Wave”: Vietnamese Escape Artists Groove to the New Wave”
RKS Literature: The Modesty of David Copperfield (Dickens)
“I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful. I was not stunned by the praise which sounded in my ears, notwithstanding I was alive to it, and thought better of my own performance, I have littleContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Modesty of David Copperfield (Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Newly Married Copperfield in Marital Bliss (Charles Dickens)
“It seemed such an extraordinary thing to have Dora always there. It was so unaccountable not to be obliged to go out and see her, not to have any occasion to be tormenting myself about her, not to have to write to her, not to be scheming and devising any opportunities of being alone withContinue reading “RKS Literature: Newly Married Copperfield in Marital Bliss (Charles Dickens)”
RKS 2024 Wine: Château des Landes from Lussac Saint-Émilion
100% Merlot from 50-year-old vines. Aged 16 months in new French oak. The British wine writer Jancis Robinson wrote in February 2023 should 2019 in Bordeaux be seen as the best vintage ever? Aroma: Subdued and compact with blackberry, black cherry and some vanilla. A skillful use of new French oak as it does not shoutContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Château des Landes from Lussac Saint-Émilion”
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