There are several wineries in the Niagara, Ontario wine producing area that have gone Italian the Appassimento and Ripasso way. In Italy the crushed grapes made to use Amarone are “reused” in the Ripasso method. The pomace (the pulpy mass of seeds and skins leftover after the Amarone has fermented) is left in contact withContinue reading “RKS 2025 Wine: Foreign Affair Winery in Niagara Goes Italian”
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The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 43: Getting Cyclops’ Dogs off My Scent
I met Don Lupara on my veranda overlooking the Bay of Naples. We knew the coward Cyclops had fled to Romania and the general area where he was last spotted. Although the Cyclops “family” had largely been decimated and its remnants absorbed by other families Cyclops still retained a few allies in Naples who knewContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 43: Getting Cyclops’ Dogs off My Scent”
RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”: International Machinations Lead to National Disaster
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” focuses on the futile attempt to attain veritable independence of the Belgian colony of the Congo led by Patrice Lumumba. The Democratic Republic of Congo with Lumumba as its first prime minister negotiated its independence from Belgium on 30June1960. But was it truly independence? The assassination of Lumumba in earlyContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”: International Machinations Lead to National Disaster”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 42: How Do You Kill Another Man? The Romanian Revenge Plan: Romanian Lightning Heroin
After dinner Don Lupara’s men dropped me off at the fully renovated seaside home on the Bay of Naples a wedding gift for a wedding that never was to be due to Ginevra’s murder. It was payback time. Cyclops who had planted a roadside explosive device that killed my sweet Campanian plum Ginevra and ourContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 42: How Do You Kill Another Man? The Romanian Revenge Plan: Romanian Lightning Heroin”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 41: Leaving My Positano Asylum and Agreeing to a Revenge Murder
Don Lupara picked me up in his Russian Zil from my Positano “mental health facility” and take me “home” to the Cattavia family estate on the outskirts of Naples. If only Ginevra had been travelling in Lupara’s Russian Zil amour plated and all she would still be with me. But being of Russian manufacture itContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvellous (The Final Version):Chapter 41: Leaving My Positano Asylum and Agreeing to a Revenge Murder”
RKS Literature: Rockers in Midlife
“The mourners here were friends of my parents, musicians from Yorkville: family friends from out of town whom I’d met on a few occasions, all nice folks who played music at one time or another, a little loopy from too much prescription medication for joint inflammations and anti-social tendencies, who suffered from deafness in oneContinue reading “RKS Literature: Rockers in Midlife”
RKS 2025 Film: “Loren & Rose”: Jacqueline Bisset on Stage!
“Loren & Rose” showcases the enormous talent of Jacqueline Bisset in her role as Rose Martin an actress rising to great acclaim in “Lisa Overnight” her greatest commercial success and her biggest curse as once you reach the summit it may be more of a slide down as how much room is there left toContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Loren & Rose”: Jacqueline Bisset on Stage!”
The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvelllous (The Final Version):Chapter 40: I Have Been Committed to a Psychiatric Hospital: Thank God for LSD and Pasta a La Nero! Lupara’s Deadly Cure
After my Ritz-Carlton meltdown in Manhattan for months I had no idea where I was nor did I really care. Was it post traumatic stress disorder or depression? I was told that I had been transported on a chartered jet courtesy of Don Lupara from New York to Naples where I was transported along theContinue reading “The Penniless Pensioner: Misaligned, Maligned but Marvelllous (The Final Version):Chapter 40: I Have Been Committed to a Psychiatric Hospital: Thank God for LSD and Pasta a La Nero! Lupara’s Deadly Cure”
RKS 2025 Wine: A Limniona from Greece: Greece’s Hot New Grape? A Dual Personality Wine
As for Greek red wines there is no star performer of world renown at least yet! Argentina has Malbec. Chile has Bonarda. United States Cabernet Sauvignon. Canada Cabernet Franc. Greece? Xinomavro or Agiorgitiko? I don’t think so perhaps because of limited distribution in North America. Lemniona is the rising star of the Greek red varieties andContinue reading “RKS 2025 Wine: A Limniona from Greece: Greece’s Hot New Grape? A Dual Personality Wine”
RKS 2025 Wine: Foss Marai Millesimato Prosecco
Aroma: Lemon, lime, green apple, ginger and white peach. Palate: Moderate acidic bite less than you might experience with a Crémant. Citrusy, ginger, green apple and pear. Short clean finish. Personality: Far less formal and less bite than Champagne, Cava and Crémants. Food Match: Tuna melt with sharper cheddar possibly Collier’s Welsh Cheddar. Cellarbility: DrinkContinue reading “RKS 2025 Wine: Foss Marai Millesimato Prosecco”
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