In the subculture of serious wine appreciation, fine stemware is both a basic need and great indulgence.
With so many different varietals being produced around the world, glassmakers are trying to keep pace. With early reviews already hailing it as the most important wine book in decades, Wine Grapes is a must-have for wine lovers. Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours, by Janis Robinson, Julia Harding and Jose Vouillamoz (Ecco/HarperCollins, $125), is a complete, alphabetically presented encyclopedia with DNA-level profiles of all grape varieties, charting the relationships between them, including unique family trees, their characteristics in the vineyard and, most important, what the wines made from them taste like. This year’s vintage produced an instant classic. It holds a standard 750-milliliter bottle and can maintain an appropriate temperature for about an hour.Įvery holiday season brings a glut of new wine and culinary books to the market. Rather than putting your wine bottle on ice, this glass carafe houses a stainless steel ice chamber that your wine surrounds. Thankfully, technology has provided a solution that is elegant, effective and simple: the Metrokane Rabbit Wine Chilling Carafe ($49.95). Despite my passion, I recognize formal chillers can be burdensome for casual daily use. I enjoy everything about them: their myriad designs the materials from which they are made (silver, copper and brass) the sound of the bottle settling into its icy bath. I am a traditionalist verging on a romantic when it comes to wine chillers. What follows are four gift ideas that promise to please even the most discriminating palate you know. Most importantly, ignore all sense of whimsy, such as a doormat branded with the receiver’s last name (e.g., “Welcome to Chateau LaVallee”), aprons that proclaim “You had me at Merlot” or - my personal favorite - “The Entire Bottle of Wine Glass,” which is a stem that does, in fact, hold an entire bottle. With that in mind, if there is someone special on your list who has an interest in wine, I am here to help. Nicholas Epley, a professor at the University of Chicago who co-authored the study, “The secret to being a good gift giver … is to give them what they want.” Today we’ll go over this and several other holidays that you might find just as important as the people in Russia do.The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General published a study last month that found that gift givers should choose items that receivers sincerely desire rather than hunting for what the giver thinks is a considerate gift. Russians generally take the week off between New Year and Russian Orthodox Christmas, celebrated on 7 January.
It is also a tradition to come into a new year without any debts, with an abundance of food on the table and wearing your best clothes – which symbolizes that the good wealth is carried over to the next year. It is a tradition to have a decorated ëлка (yolka) (spruce tree) at home and to give each other presents. The coming of the new year is marked by the Kremlin Clock (Kuranty) striking twelve.
At this time, family and friends gather around the table to see off the old year and greet the new year. It's celebrated on the evening of 31 December. But the most favorite and probably most important is Новый Год (Novyi Got) – New Year. Russia has many праздники (prazdniki) celebrated throughout the year.
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