{"id":9144,"date":"2012-05-30T09:03:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T15:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2012-05-30T09:03:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T15:03:28","slug":"extreme-soul-are-we-talking-about-wine-or-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/extreme-soul-are-we-talking-about-wine-or-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme. Soul. Are we talking about wine or beer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A) Wine Enthusiast<\/em> writer and noted blogger Steve Heimoff asks if a wine can have soul.<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps it\u2019s our more jaded, cautious age that does not permit me to do so, in quite that fashion. I find certain wines \u201cfabulous,\u201d \u201cfantastic,\u201d \u201cstellar\u201d and the like. But anthropomorphising wine isn\u2019t my style. On the other hand, \u201csoul\u201d is just a word. I\u2019ve enjoyed many wines that gave me such \u201ca sensorial onslaught as to capture [my] complete and undivided attention.\u201d Whether or not they had \u201csoul,\u201d I will leave to others to determine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wouldn’t call soul<\/em> just a word. Quite honestly, more than six years after I added the tagline “In search of the soul of beer” here I’m still looking and occasionally wondering just what that means. But there’s more to it than trying to find “stellar” beer. <\/p>\n

B) If you’ll recall, I’m a fan of Wine Wars,<\/em><\/a> in large part because the book takes the “sideways” view. Author Mike Veseth has announced his next book will be called Extreme Wine<\/a><\/em> (Honest to goodness, I typed beer<\/em> right after extreme<\/em>; pure force of habit.)<\/p>\n

Where Wine Wars<\/em> probed the center of the world wine market, Extreme Wines<\/em> focuses on edges based on the same theory that wine lovers use when they tilt their glasses \u201csideways\u201d and analyze the liquid\u2019s rim: the forces of change first make themselves visible at the outer limits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This, of course, is good reason to consider the role of extreme beer. In fact, this table of contents is just waiting for somebody to replace the word wine<\/em> with beer<\/em>. And maybe throw in the words barrel-aged, Brettanomyces<\/em> and hops. <\/p>\n

1. X-Wines: In Vino Veritas?
\n2. Extreme Wine: Best and the Worst
\n3. The Fame Game: Most Famous, Most Forgotten and Most Infamous
\n4. Sold Out: Rarest, Most Unusual and Most Ubiquitous
\n5. Money Wine: Cheapest, Most Expensive and Most Overpriced
\n6. Extreme Wine Booms and Busts
\n7. Extreme Wine People
\n8. Fifteen Minutes: Celebrity Wine
\n9. [The Medium is the] Message in a Bottle: Television, Film and the Web
\n10. Around the World in 80 Wines: Extreme Wine Tourism
\n11. Extreme Wine by the Numbers
\n12. Tasting Notes from the Edge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A) Wine Enthusiast writer and noted blogger Steve Heimoff asks if a wine can have soul. Perhaps it\u2019s our more jaded, cautious age that does not permit me to do so, in quite that fashion. I find certain wines \u201cfabulous,\u201d \u201cfantastic,\u201d \u201cstellar\u201d and the like. But anthropomorphising wine isn\u2019t my style. On the other hand, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2nu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9149,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions\/9149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}