I chose an out of the way place…a little wine bar name Pinkerton on the corner of ‘where the hell am i’ and ‘this doesn’t look like brooklyn’ street in Williamsburg. The intent was to meet up with a friend of a friend who just so happen to be in the wine importing / distributing biz just to get an idea of what it might take to bring in the delicious wines from Canada to share with our friends here in NYC.
After Sam Sifton of the NY Times wrote that Motorino “serves the city’s best pizza” on February 17, I had to give it a try to see for myself. I’d been to a couple of the other trendy New York pizza places – Company, Keste and, of course, Franny’s, which is just down the block from our Brooklyn apartment – so while I’m by no means a pizza expert, I at least had some basis for comparison.
” I just don’t see big wine allowing labels on wine reading something like this: This wine was dealcoholized by reverse osmosis and smoothed out with micro-oxygenation. Ingredients: Water, alcohol, grapes, chestnut tannin, oak extract, oak dust, genetically modified yeast, urea, enzymes, grape juice, tartaric acid, bentonite and Velcorin.”
-Alice Feiring, The Battle for Wine and Love or How I saved the World from Parkerization
