Congratulations to David Schildknecht ! Recent word from The Wine Advocate is that the talented and prolific David Schieldknecht will now be covering most of the world's major wine regions for Robert Parker. Mr. Schildknecht will not be covering Italy, Bordeaux and the Rhône Valley but his beat will include: 1. Germany 2. Austria 3. Central Europe 4. Eastern America 5. Midwestern America 6. Alsace 7. Burgundy 8. Loire 9. Languedoc-Roussillon 10. Champagne 11. New Zealand 12. South Africa Best of luck to David and the newly revamped Wine Advocate. It sounds like an exhausting schedule, but if anyone can do it, David certainly can! I know I would be exhausted by just doing the first six categories, although I hear the South African vineyards are beautiful and rejuvenating. Rejuvenation is an important part of being on the wine route. I was once hospitalized in Decize after a long tasting of Pouilly-Fumé during a winter jaunt through the French vineyards. Decize is somewhere in the center of France and the correct pronunciation of the town rhymes with deceased. This made me somewhat nervous, but I was simply exhausted from too much travelling, eating and tasting and needed to be on IV units to clean out my system. Being on the wine road sounds glamorous to many people and certainly it beats many other jobs. At the same time, it can be exhausting and I wish David the best. The doctor who released me from the hospital in Decize asked me what my next stop was going to be and I told him the Beaujolais. With great alarm, he warned me not to taste any Beaujolais wines in my diminished condition, because "they're all trafficked." I'm sure he would have approved of South Africa. |
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