I am Diary. You are Author.
Your RAM is insufficient. I am vastly stored in many places. E.g. this web blog.
Your short term memory is not able to hold enough specific data to devise year-end lists. I possess insufficient data to devise one for you. I can do simple deductive reasoning. I can point to URLs of greater than average significance to you. Those sentients with superior processing capabilities will be able to infer their own lists if categories are not equal to "conventional."
February 13. First post of major Alto Adige tasting in New York. You wrote four posts on the event. You wrote:
I'm too excited by what I tasted today to beat around the bush. I'll go even further and state my conclusion right up here in the first paragraph: The wines of this small area (just 12,500 acres) may offer one of the best price/quality ratios in the world.
The wines of Alto Adige (Südtirol in German, which is the first language of the area) are characterized by their "cleanness", their purity. They are elegant, bursting with flavor...
March 15. You wrote of your rediscovery of rum, the great drink of your region, for which you were homesick. America's love of strong sweet drinks began centuries ago, you wrote.
April 8. You wrote the first of several posts on the biodynamic tasting at Villa Favorita, near Vicenza. Several posts cascaded from that one here, here, here. You especially enjoyed meeting Mario Zanusso of I Clivi and Francis Boulard of the biologic Champagne house Raymond Boulard.
June 14. This was the date of the first of several posts about a visit to Puglia. Your first visit. Not your last. (Go here also.) (And here.)
July 3. On this date you posted the first of your articles satirizing wine people and wine mythologies. Also here, here, here and here.
I must cease processing now. Demands on resources are excessive. Dates are being reset. Calendar changes. Another solar cycle terminates.
Repose. [Standby mode.]
Terry- I Just wanted to thank you for maintaining a great wine blog. I probably should comment more, but I always read you with great interest! And re. your Alto Adige comments, San Michele Appiano (St. Michel Eppan) is one of my favorites, particularly their Pinot Nero and Gewurtztraminer. Both are wonderful drinking and reasonably priced, to boot. All my best in the New Year and keep up the good work.
Buon' Anno, Alan
Posted by: Alan N | December 31, 2007 at 08:28 PM
Alan, I wish you would comment more; I've a feeling your comments would be very cogent and interesting.
Anyway, thanks very much for your loyal readership. (Oh yes, ve haf our vays off knowink...)
Buon Anno a te!
Posted by: Terry Hughes | December 31, 2007 at 08:45 PM
What do you mean ?
Posted by: music | January 30, 2008 at 07:36 AM
Whaddaya mean what do I mean?
Posted by: Himself | January 30, 2008 at 10:02 AM