Tag Archive 'wine_analogy'
Posted by TheShot on 09 Sep 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
For this installment of comic relief Friday, we bring you the coffee critic wheel. You’re probably well aware of the coffee flavor wheel, which borrowed heavily from the wine aroma wheel in the wine tasting world. However, you might not be aware of wine vintner Janet Trefethen’s (of Trefethen Family Vineyards) Standardized System of Wine [...]
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Tags: 49th_parallel, brightness_bomb, coffee_review, flavor_wheel, kenneth_davids, santa_barbara_coffee, sightglass, stumptown, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 05 Aug 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends
Yesterday we came across a post where a Boston Globe writer implored winemakers to be more like their coffee counterparts: A lesson in winemaking – straight from the espresso bar . . . – By the glass – Wine News, Views & Reviews – Boston.com. It wouldn’t be the first time coffee’s wine analogy ran [...]
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Tags: coffee_cupping, coffee_middlemen, direct_trade, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 03 Aug 2011 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Quality Issues
Several months after we declared that coffee’s golden age is over, famed Illy barista-in-chief, Giorgio Milos, posted this in The Atlantic today: America’s Golden Age of Coffee: Remarkably Like Italy’s Past – Giorgio Milos – Life – The Atlantic. You might recall Mr. Milos ruffling a few New World coffee feathers last year in The [...]
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Tags: Barista, brightness_bomb, giorgio_milos, illy, italy_coffee, third_wave, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 03 Apr 2011 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
We’ve been lamenting the sorry state of restaurant coffee in these pages since 2005. But let it be known that, as of this moment forward, we have officially given up on the possibility of ever being reliably served good coffee in American restaurants. Sure, there have been a few successes and battles won along the [...]
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Tags: Barista, coffeegeek, coffee_pairing, restaurant_coffee, restaurant_espresso, scaa, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 29 Mar 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew
Growing up as a teenager, I always hated those “Battle of the Bands” contests. Because — despite my odd musical tastes, from the Dream Syndicate to Mötorhead, at a time when most teens wanted the inoffensive sounds of Huey Lewis & the News — I quickly learned that these contests were never about talent. They [...]
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Tags: best_coffee, cafe_reviews, coffee_blends, philz_coffee, pour_over_coffee, third_wave, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 03 Feb 2011 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Machine
Many in the coffee industry speak volumes about wanting to market themselves to the public as the “new wine.” But if we examine the practices the industry has taken on to accomplish any of this, it has failed miserably on nearly all fronts. What becomes all too clear is that the coffee industry either doesn’t [...]
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Tags: barista_championships, barista_magazine, brewers_cup, coffee_cupping, coffee_marketing, consumer_marketing, cup_of_excellence, event_marketing, latte_art, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 27 Jan 2011 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends
As Americans have ravaged through anything edible from the surface of the planet like a biblical plague of locusts, you can’t argue that we have become rather fat and bored. So as consumers, we have resorted to behaviors suggestive of infants who sit in their own mess sticking various things in their mouths until something [...]
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Tags: coffee_pairing, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 23 Jan 2011 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
Last week brought us yet another coffee article about wine analogies and making the “perfect” (groan) cup: The Art of the Perfect Cup of Coffee | CulturePOP | Ingredients for an Artful Life. What was different about this one is it consisted of an interview with reigning WBC champ Michael Phillips of Chicago’s Intelligentsia. In [...]
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Tags: chemex, coffee_blending, four_barrel, perfect_espresso, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 15 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
Today’s Metro Pulse (Knoxville, TN) published a lengthy-but-interesting piece on Knoxville’s budding local coffee scene: Revenge of the Knoxville (Coffee) Nerds » Metro Pulse. The article includes plenty of common themes we’ve seen many times before — pour-over bars, direct trade, the wine analogy. However, the article succeeds by being non-judgmental while going beyond the [...]
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Tags: direct_trade, pour_over_coffee, tennessee_coffee, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 06 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Machine, Quality Issues
Lately we’ve been thinking about quality coffee’s current obsession with all-things-technology. While there’s arguably more science than art to making good coffee, the current climate seems to have pushed any art aside. It reminds us of civilization at the turn of the 20th century, when society held a common belief that technology was going to [...]
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Tags: clover_brewer, coffee_pods, coffee_tech, cup_of_excellence, le_fooding, siphon_bars, slayer_espresso_machine, Starbucks, superautomatic_espresso_machines, wine_analogy
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