Comments on: The People of the Vine: Interview with Winemaker Jeff Morgan (Win!) http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Mon, 21 May 2012 04:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shuttle to OAK http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/comment-page-1#comment-34253 Shuttle to OAK Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:32:59 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/#comment-34253 Thanks for sharing such a great and valuable information with us. Thanks for sharing such a great and valuable information with us.

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]]> By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/comment-page-1#comment-12006 Leah Koenig Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:44:04 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/#comment-12006 Congratulations Tara! You won two bottles of Covenant's Red C wine. Thanks to everyone who shared your funny, touching, and delicious-sounding wine stories. Keep your eyes peeled for more chances to win great cookbooks, delicious food products, and other fun prizes on The Jew & The Carrot! Congratulations Tara! You won two bottles of Covenant’s Red C wine.

Thanks to everyone who shared your funny, touching, and delicious-sounding wine stories. Keep your eyes peeled for more chances to win great cookbooks, delicious food products, and other fun prizes on The Jew & The Carrot!

]]> By: Wine Tasting Guy http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/comment-page-1#comment-11900 Wine Tasting Guy Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:15:24 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/#comment-11900 Wow! Great interview with a GREAT guy. How has it taken me so long to find this blog?!? Carrots - where have you been all my life? My favorite wine memory is an impossible task. There was a lovely late afternoon/early evening with a winemaker in his Napa, CA backyard ;). There was the first time I opened a bottle I made (it was not especially good - BUT IT WORKED). And of course countless wine tastings with good wine & good people. But forced to choose one memory, I'd say it was during a day trip to the Southern Judean Hills in Israel. We went to the Yatir winery located in Tel Arad by the Yatir forest. We worked our way back up North via the Dead sea. After floating on the Sea (something everyone must try at least once in their life) we opened a bottle that we drank out of crappy Israeli plastic cups while looking out over the Dead Sea into Jordan...(and imagining PEACE for Israel with its neighbors)...sigh... Wow! Great interview with a GREAT guy. How has it taken me so long to find this blog?!? Carrots – where have you been all my life?

My favorite wine memory is an impossible task. There was a lovely late afternoon/early evening with a winemaker in his Napa, CA backyard ;) . There was the first time I opened a bottle I made (it was not especially good – BUT IT WORKED). And of course countless wine tastings with good wine & good people.

But forced to choose one memory, I’d say it was during a day trip to the Southern Judean Hills in Israel. We went to the Yatir winery located in Tel Arad by the Yatir forest. We worked our way back up North via the Dead sea. After floating on the Sea (something everyone must try at least once in their life) we opened a bottle that we drank out of crappy Israeli plastic cups while looking out over the Dead Sea into Jordan…(and imagining PEACE for Israel with its neighbors)…sigh…

]]> By: Lois "Macaroni Maniac" http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/comment-page-1#comment-11895 Lois "Macaroni Maniac" Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:29:48 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/#comment-11895 I once gave a paper at a conference in Sardegna - and of course used the trip as an excuse to spend ten days touring the island with my sweetie. Most Sardinians don't speak English or French - in a couple of northern cities some people speak a little Spanish, but mostly it's Italian or, among older residents, Sard. Which means we had a week of hilarious interactions, relying on all the Italian I'd managed to learn in one short term of once-a-week Italian class through the evening program at our local community college. Somewhere along the way, we stopped at a small shop to buy some wine for an impromptu picnic. The owner, who seemed to have enjoyed a fair tasting of his own wares, urged a particular bottle on us, describing it as, "ottimo" (ultimo, which sounds similar, could mean either good or bad - imagine drinking the LAST wine you'd want! - so I was proud to notice the distinction). We shlepped that bottle around with us and back home, then stuck it in the back of a cupboard for a couple years. "When are we ever going to drink that thing?" I asked one day, afraid its legend might have grown too big. "When we buy a house, we'll drink it there," my sweetie said. And eventually, we did. And it *was* ottimo! I once gave a paper at a conference in Sardegna – and of course used the trip as an excuse to spend ten days touring the island with my sweetie. Most Sardinians don’t speak English or French – in a couple of northern cities some people speak a little Spanish, but mostly it’s Italian or, among older residents, Sard. Which means we had a week of hilarious interactions, relying on all the Italian I’d managed to learn in one short term of once-a-week Italian class through the evening program at our local community college. Somewhere along the way, we stopped at a small shop to buy some wine for an impromptu picnic. The owner, who seemed to have enjoyed a fair tasting of his own wares, urged a particular bottle on us, describing it as, “ottimo” (ultimo, which sounds similar, could mean either good or bad – imagine drinking the LAST wine you’d want! – so I was proud to notice the distinction). We shlepped that bottle around with us and back home, then stuck it in the back of a cupboard for a couple years. “When are we ever going to drink that thing?” I asked one day, afraid its legend might have grown too big. “When we buy a house, we’ll drink it there,” my sweetie said. And eventually, we did. And it *was* ottimo!

]]> By: Josh http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/comment-page-1#comment-11854 Josh Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:54:48 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/#comment-11854 ahh vino - so many memories. I guess I'd have to go with the time we bottled a barrel of Cab we made in '04 with a friend. We couldn't get the filler to be precise enough which caused a lot of "manual adjustments".... suffice to say we had to rotate that position but eventually everyone got waaaaaay tipsy.... /the labels didn't end up straight either. ahh vino – so many memories. I guess I’d have to go with the time we bottled a barrel of Cab we made in ’04 with a friend. We couldn’t get the filler to be precise enough which caused a lot of “manual adjustments”…. suffice to say we had to rotate that position but eventually everyone got waaaaaay tipsy….

/the labels didn’t end up straight either.

]]> By: Carrie http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/comment-page-1#comment-11851 Carrie Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:36:21 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/#comment-11851 I recently took my parents to napa - And I was the designated driver. I learned to spit! I'm pretty good :) I recently took my parents to napa – And I was the designated driver. I learned to spit! I’m pretty good :)

]]> By: Cady http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/comment-page-1#comment-11849 Cady Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:12:25 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/#comment-11849 My favorite wine memory is from my 40th birthday. I'd decided that it was no longer aceptable for me not to understand red wine so I set about learning. I read books. I went online and learned about the rating system. I went to my local fancy wine store and spent hours reading labels. Then, on my birthday, I made 3 choices, all rather expensive: a cabernet, a pinot noir, and merlot. I went home and opened and tasted them all. Just as I was deciding I didn't like any of them, a friend arrived with a birthday gift of a $5 bottle of Barefoot cabernet. I liked it better than any of the others. She told me I'd learned the most important lesson: A good wine is one you'll drink. I now also know that it takes time to develop the palate. I like a lot of different ones now. But my favorite memory is of my first time trying them. My favorite wine memory is from my 40th birthday. I’d decided that it was no longer aceptable for me not to understand red wine so I set about learning. I read books. I went online and learned about the rating system. I went to my local fancy wine store and spent hours reading labels. Then, on my birthday, I made 3 choices, all rather expensive: a cabernet, a pinot noir, and merlot. I went home and opened and tasted them all. Just as I was deciding I didn’t like any of them, a friend arrived with a birthday gift of a $5 bottle of Barefoot cabernet. I liked it better than any of the others. She told me I’d learned the most important lesson: A good wine is one you’ll drink. I now also know that it takes time to develop the palate. I like a lot of different ones now. But my favorite memory is of my first time trying them.

]]> By: Sarah http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/comment-page-1#comment-11847 Sarah Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:04:13 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-people-of-the-vine-interview-with-winemaker-jeff-morgan-win/#comment-11847 My favorite recent wine memory... that might have to be my son's bris. Of course, lately he's gotten a finger of grape juice at kiddish, but good wine is a move we should make.... My favorite recent wine memory… that might have to be my son’s bris. Of course, lately he’s gotten a finger of grape juice at kiddish, but good wine is a move we should make….

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