(04-17-2020, 10:36 AM)terry Wrote: (04-17-2020, 10:14 AM)Mick Wrote: Jack London was a fine writer, but he was also a grape farmer. Where was his land, and which winery today uses grapes from his land for their wine?
There's a Jack London historic site in the Sonoma Valley . . . not sure which winery.
His land was in Glen Ellen. The grapes from that land source some of the Kenwood wines.
(04-17-2020, 06:16 PM)Phogge Wrote: I think Stag's leap won the contest but Mondavi 1969 Cab had won an earlier French tasting.
How about Philo Farnsworth for the video tube. I think a German invented the cathode ray tube.
Philo T. Farnsworth, indeed.
Stag's Leap won the Judgment in Paris, according to the nine French judges, one American judge and one British judge. It was a very big deal. What was unique was that the contest was organized by Steve Spurrier, a British wine
snob merchant, who preferred French cabs. He invited the Californians where Stag's Leap won the blind taste test in the cabernet sauvignon category, and another Californian entrant, Chateau Montelena from Calistoga won Best White with their Chardonnay. Mike Grgich was their winemaker.
Three of the top four whites were American (Chalone and Spring Mountain were the other two whites).
The contest was repeated in San Francisco nearly two years later. American wines won the top red and top white again (Stag's Leap and Chalone). It was repeated eight years later at the French Culinary Institute, a 10th anniversary of sorts. Top two wines were again American (Clos du Val and Ridge Vineyards). At a Wine Spectator blind taste test of ten wines (six Californian and four French), Californian wines took the top four spots (Heitz, Mayacamas, Ridge, Stag's Leap and Clos du Val). And finally, in a 30th anniversary event in 2006, American wines took the top five spots (Ridge, Stag's Leap, Mayacamas, Heitz and Clos du Val)
The last three answers are as follows:
- Where was the first Burning Man held? Baker Beach, 1986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man
This Stanford grad was the inventor of radio broadcasting (broadcast first voice transmissions in 1909) and founded KCBS (originally KQW). Name him.
- Charles David "Doc" Herrold, first started to broadcast from San Jose, CA in 1912. Enrolled at Stanford in 1895 to study Physics and Astronomy for three years. Fell ill, didn't graduate. H
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Herrold
Doc Herrold's lab in San Jose -->
Which Golden State Warrior invented, then popularized the term "my bad"?
- Manute Bol, after one of Don Nelson's many harangues.