“In the present day-when places called cafés are springing up everywhere, drawing thousands of idle people with money to spare, when male and female students behave so shockingly in streetcars that it has become necessary to segregate them-men have lost all trace of that fervor that drove their ancestors to accept the most frightening challenges.Continue reading “RKS Literature: “The Decline of the Japanese Man” (Yukio Mishima)”
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RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Norman Hardie’s County Unfiltered Cabernet Franc from Ontario’s Prince Edward County
Aroma: Heavy duty and intense black cherry and raspberry jam. Blackberry and cocoa. Palate: High toned almost disinterested above it all raspberry, strawberry and Catania cactus pear. Personality: Admire my bouquet worthy of a standing ovation expecting something stellar. Taste me and you might ask what just happened with the fruit? Food Match: Pizza orContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Norman Hardie’s County Unfiltered Cabernet Franc from Ontario’s Prince Edward County”
RKS Literature: Kiyaoki’s Nasty Letter to Satoko (Yukio Mishima)
“And perhaps you are smiling contemptuously, secure in the knowledge that my lust for paid women will only serve to enhance my esteem for pure ladies like yourself. No, let me disabuse you of any such notion. Since that night (enlightenment being exactly what it says) I have broken through all these standards into territoryContinue reading “RKS Literature: Kiyaoki’s Nasty Letter to Satoko (Yukio Mishima)”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Featherstone’s Gemstone
As for price and quality Featherstone Estate Winery consistently delivers gems! This wine is a Cabernet Franc and Merlot blend. Aroma: Black cherry, blackberry, cocoa, raspberry, lavender and plum. Palate: Plummy with dark fruit. It is on the after palate that the fruit and tannin makes a more forceful appearance with heavy duty blackberry, friskyContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Featherstone’s Gemstone”
RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Cooper’s Hawk Talon Red
I have been a fan of wines from the Lake Erie North Shore (LENS) appellation in Ontario for quite some time. I go back so far I remember the first wine from Cooper’s Hawk I reviewed was a Chardonnay and these guys were so new it wasn’t even VQA. Then fame crept up on LENSContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Cooper’s Hawk Talon Red”
RKS 2025 Wine: Corvina Obtains Divorce from Valpolicella Partners
The Corvina grape has been cuddling very close to Valpolicella for many years. Corvina is frequently blended with Rondinella and Molinara to make the whole of Valpolicella. But on occasion it must have a tiff with its blending partners and in a huff divorces itself from the other grapes and strikes its own path solo.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Wine: Corvina Obtains Divorce from Valpolicella Partners”
RKS CANADIAN Documentary: “Under the Arbor”: An Explosion of Colour, Song, Music and Healing
A Powwow is a melding of music, song and dance at the very heart of Canadian Indigenous culture all the more significant as such expressions of indigenous culture were at one point illegal in Canada seen as heathen, immoral and Unchristian by the Canadian colonizers also responsible for the Residential School all part of anContinue reading “RKS CANADIAN Documentary: “Under the Arbor”: An Explosion of Colour, Song, Music and Healing”
RKS Literature: The Useless Knowledge of Wine (Yukio Mishima)
“Since the Marquis was fond of Western food, dinner was served in the small dining room of the Western-style house, and he himself had gone down to the wine cellar to choose the wine. He had taken Kiyoaki with him and had gone to great lengths to expound on the characteristics of the various winesContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Useless Knowledge of Wine (Yukio Mishima)”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Magnetosphere”: Quirky, Cheesy, Tender and Risque
Maggie (Shayelin Martin) is a thirteen-year-old with “an issue” which initially may be having you wandering down the depressing rocky road of a severe neurological disease. Occasionally she sees sparkles and murky clouds around objects and her sensory reception all around seems skewered. And top that off with being an insecure teen with low selfContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Magnetosphere”: Quirky, Cheesy, Tender and Risque”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Hinterbrook Nomad’s 23 Humble
“Humble” can mean having or showing a modest or low estimate of one’s importance. Often it can be seen as a positive attribute; a sort of an underestimation of excellence. Is Hinterbrook telling us succinctly this is an excellent wine but there shall be no bragging about it! At a price of $20 CDN itsContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Hinterbrook Nomad’s 23 Humble”
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