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Sparr 2005 Riesling (Alsace) – Fairly classic, with steely minerality underneath crisp apples shot through with metallic shards. There’s a very light dollop of sweetness on the midpalate, but the finish is balanced and structured enough to handle it. Good, bargain riesling in the stronger Alsace style. (1/07)

.  Now, a few things I've been thinking about sparring lately.  (Warning: this is long and tangential ... that none of the judges saw it.  This actually happens a lot, so part of good sparring strategy is to have ... of them have won many medals for sparring, and some of them  are twice my size, or at least it feels ... (will be getting her black belt in June) who has fistfuls of gold medals in sparring.  She is great...

Pardon the pun; I find them irrestible. Today, in truth, we celebrate the excellent wines of the respected Alsatian producer Pierre Sparr.

Sahsez learned her first spinning kick tonight.  My baby! In four months, Sahsez and I will have our three-year anniversary of beginning Tae Kwon-Do.  When we started, she had just turned five.  She has always been the youngest and smallest member of our club.  But not the quietest!  It's been ...

Wineries are sparring over two proposals to split up Paso Robles into two or as many as 11 subappellations...

Ken Gargett….booze hack extordinaire for the Brisbane Courier Mail, wine judge and abusive email sparring partner regarding Australian and NZ rugby….forwarded me this wine website which maybe of interest to some: Bluebottle Wines...

sparring and forms.  Forms, I don't really care about, but I'm doing it to be a good sport and to try ... ) but sparring...ah, sparring is my true love.  We'll see if I can still claim that after Saturday.  I...

... a year, we get together for sparring seminars, or more casual sparring sessions, called, fondly ... Smackarounds are definitely not intended to be competitive, it is sparring, so by its very nature a competition ... , and got a point for it too.  Still, this is light-to-medium contact sparring, and face contact ... of sparring that I'm figuring out.  There are hundreds of other aspects of it that I still have...

A fact that must be faced:  I have not been sparring much since September.  This was not how I envisioned the fall and winter going.  After the tournament, I knew I was going to be off for four weeks while we were travelling, and then I suspected that I wouldn't be going whole-hog during NaNoWriMo ... dependent on the availability of my babysitters.  My club offers four sparring nights a month and if I miss...