Intelligentsia Ethiopia Bishan Fugu Natural

https://islandinthenet.com/intelligentsia-ethiopia-bishan-fugu-natural/

Select Highlights from the Wines of Portugal Tasting : Vinography

I must admit, I was nervous. It was the very first trade and media tasting opportunity since San Francisco emerged from the Orange Tier of COVID-19 status. But the organizers wer…
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Select Highlights from the Wines of Portugal Tasting : Vinography

I must admit, I was nervous. It was the very first trade and media tasting opportunity since San Francisco emerged from the Orange Tier of COVID-19 status.…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Portuguesewine #Arinto #Portugal #scores #tastingnotes #tradetasting #Wine #winecriticism #WinefromPortugal #WineofPortugal #WinesofPortugal
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Schioppettino di Prepotto 2021 – Vigna Petrussa. Prepotto come origine e ritorno: un vitigno che ha rischiato di sparire e che oggi mostra un’identità netta. Nel calice: pepe e mora, humus e una traccia balsamica; sorso ampio e profondo, ma soprattutto equilibrato. Una versione sorprendentemente “amichevole” dello #Schioppettino, senza perdere carattere.

https://www.enonauta.it/2026/02/18/schioppettino-di-prepotto-2021-vigna-petrussa/

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Ein fruchtig-schönes Bourbonfass mit klaren Aromen und leicht torfigen und kräuterartigen Komponenten, die dem jungen Ben Nevis schon eine gewisse Komplexität verleihen.

Review: https://notesofmalt.de/Highlands/Ben-Nevis/

#bennevis #whisky #review #tastingnotes #singlemalt

Fireground - Smile as One
Origin: Munich
#TastingNotes: St. Germain, Dimitri From Paris, the Orb

From Germany's Ilian Tape, which continues to be my favourite techno label, comes this short EP by Fireground, an artist I know nothing about except what's in this toot.

Whoever they are, they have delivered some serious tunes: Marea is a nu jazz bop. Harbor Walk fuses elements of deep house and layered tribaly drum tracks under a repeated two chord phrase that serves as a sort of bridge between Madea's groove and Gateway's full on epic trance. The title track goes in a more ambient direction, sort of like an up tempo U. F. Orb. It's exciting and attention-grabbing and makes for excellent headphone music.

I hate record labels that glom everything into a single bandcamp space instead of letting artists have their own, but I might have to make an exception here and dig through for more Fireground releases because if these four tracks are any indication, I may have found a new obsession.

https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/it072-smile-as-one

#NowPlaying #Techno

@WangleLine - Rabbit's Journey
Origin: Essen
#TastingNotes: Alex Mauer, Hans Zimmer, Venetian Snares

What a treat this album is! A glitch EDM concept record about a rabbit building a rocket ship, going to space and having adventures? Sign me up.

Wangeline is a gifted sound designer with a taste for weird chiptune-adjacent bleeps and blorps. On Rabbit's Journey, their maximalist chaotic aesthetic is on full display: more noises, more layers, more notes, more more.

But this isn't crazy for crazy's sake; the furious blasts of notes are balanced with a clever use of space and the whole album has a sophisticated compositional structure. It opens with Satellite, a slow building overture of overlapping arpeggiators and massive Hans Zimmer chords. It introduces the main motif, which will be returned to throughout and it's deliciously heroic: I can see our intrepid space bunny slow-motion walking to the rocket ship. The rocket blasts off on Journey to the Lunar Base, the third track, and there's no coming back. If you're a fan of glitchy brokebeat at 140bpm you'll be right at home.

What I really like about Wangeline, and what shines so brightly on this record, is their approach to melody and harmony. I have plenty of mad glitch electronica in my library, but so little of it trades in major keys or soaring, unapologetically heroic, uplifting top lines. Even Strange Relic, the only track here to hang out in a minor key and trade in some dissonance and dubsteppery harshness gives way to a major key resolution and victorious fanfare. It's the climax of the record before the gentle and wistful denouement of the final two tracks.

Rabbit's Journey is a fine, fine record and it'll be in my end of year list for sure.

https://wangleline.bandcamp.com/album/rabbits-journey

Slowly catching up on my #TastingNotes . Was falling behind because weekends were getting busy with other things, but I'm starting to think about #AOTY and realized there have been many records I haven't written up yet!

What has been in heavy rotation for y'all this year? What do I need to hear?

Gloomy June - Gloomy June
Origin: California
#TastingNotes: Ariel View, The Dollyrots, The Thermals

I'm just going to get this out of the way now, so we can move beyond it: track 4 of SF Bay queer emo pop outfit Gloomy June's self-titled debut, "Back From the Dead," contains the lyric:

Chaos in a pair of docs, yeah
You may be a paradox, like
A love bomb waiting to go off

But I promise you this is an anomaly and the record is generally quite excellent.

You can count the number of emo records in my collection on one hand; I took one look at My Chemical Romance, decided the entire scene was just overproduced baby goth posers and promptly put Pornography on repeat for another 20 years. But Gloomy June is another of a handful of bands I've discovered in the last couple of years -- see also Peach Fuzz, the Salarymen, Rocket, Pacifica -- that have taken my listening habits in a decidedly younger direction, and with that have come some stylistic influences I missed the first time around.

Gloomy June remind me a lot of Ariel View, a band I saw open for the Beths years ago: young, queer, raised on emo and East Bay pop punk in equal measures. The songs are poppy, high-energy affairs with boy-girl vocals, gnarly guitar solos, and sad, ardent love letter lyrics in minor keys, obviously. It's a solid debut with a handful of legit bangers.

https://youtu.be/gY9EHqteMmQ