But hey - Ashok Banker, yes, the Ashok Banker of the Ramayana series fame visited my blog and answered my question about the spelling of Rama. I feel like the kid who actually saw Santa Claus.
A huge kudos to Ashok for being uber-cool and unbelievably down to earth!
Being stuck in China, all I have is Prince of Ayodhya, but hopefully someone will travel to India soon, and I will be able to talk them into carrying 3 kgs of books for me!
I didn't see the much famed Paul van Dyk of house/trance fame last night. Instead, I attended a wine appreciation class at my friend Matthieu's company www.yangjiu.com. It was excellent, with antipasti and Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay. I learnt some pretty funky stuff about wine. Whats great about Matthieu's style of conducting the class is that he is just a friend telling you about something he knows rather than an exclusivist wine expert who is throwing morsels of information down from his ivory tower of knowledge. His style is extremely relaxed and that helps you let down your guard, ask some silly questions and enjoy the wine.
Here is something I learnt yesterday that I had absolutely no clue about before.
Port wine is a fortified wine. The fermentation process is halted before all the sugar from the grapes is converted to alcohol by adding alcohol externally. This is why ports are generally fruitier and sweeter. For the less informed, such as myself - this is wine making 101
1. Grow grapes
2. Crush grapes
3. Store in big containers and by changing the temperature upwards a little, allow the yeast (micro-organisms) to convert the sugar in the grape juice to alcohol. They eat the sugar and "reject" the alcohol.
4. Either this solution is bottled directly, or aged in casks.
After this, you buy the wine, invite me and then we drink the wine! If Matthieu is reading, please let me know if I got stuff wrong ;)
1 comment:
You got it right! Thanks for the good words!
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