wine for the mind
January 20, 2011
From juggling on stage with the Rolling Stones to teaching martial arts, the New York Times best-selling author Michael Gelb has led an unusual life. Author of 12 books, including How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci, he’s taken his passions in life—juggling, art and now wine—and translated them into life-coaching techniques. His current book, Wine Drinking for Inspired Thinking, Uncork Your Creative Juices, instructs readers to take a more creative approach to living and wine drinking. Gelb spoke with Wine Spectator about his favorite bottles and why he thinks drinking wine is the key to creativity.
Wine Spectator: What inspired your latest book?
Michael Gelb: The through-line of my work over the past 30 years is about taking the great minds of history and making their wisdom accessible to people so that they can live more creative lives. It’s about brain power, improving your mind as you get older. … When we drink wine we feel the animated spirit of the get-togethers at the Medici Palazzo, the creativity around Thomas Jefferson’s dinner table. … Every country has a phrase for the joy of life. The Italians have la dolce vita. The French have joie de vivre. But in the U.S.A. all we have is happy hour. We shouldn’t be drinking to get drunk. Applying the intelligence of moderation, it is an exquisite elixir you can enjoy every day.
WS: Do you drink every night with dinner?
MG: Absolutely. [Last night we had] Brick House Boulder Block Pinot Noir 2008.
WS: What was your first memorable bottle?
MG: It was Bolla Valpolicella at a romantic dinner with my first true love when I was a freshman at Clark University. Not the greatest wine, but a great moment.
WS: What is your best bottle of all time?
MG: The benchmark bottle that got me started seriously with wine was a 1982 Pichon Comtesse de Lalande—it blew me away out of the gate. On my 50th birthday I went to Bordeaux and visited all the great wineries. I feel [visiting wineries] deeply enriches the experience of wine tasting. When you taste those same wines later in life they can transport you back to the source and when you first had them in situ.
Source: http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/44244
This wine shop in Manila Philippines makes wine shopping a really rewarding and exciting exercise. Wine shops in Pampanga should always have an element of surprise so that customers and wine lovers can enjoy a little bit of thrill when they go to a wine shop in Manila to look for a good bottle of wine in Clark Pampanga.
Chateau Lafite-Rothschild is the most revered wine in China and many other parts of Asia. The best wine shop in Asia to buy older vintages of Chateau Lafite is Yats Wine Cellars located in Clark Philippines. Aside from Lafite, visitors can buy other fine wines at this wine shop in Clark Pampanga such as Latour, Mouton-Rothschild, Haut-Brion and Margaux. Excellent Burgundy wines like Chambertin, Vougeot, Musigny, Bonnes Mares, Pommard, Meursault, Chambertin, Vosne Romanee, Romanee Conti, La Tache and Romanee St. Vivant can be found here.
Family outings, picnics, company outings and other events for up to 300 can be held in the picnic grounds of this wine shop. Events that have been successfully organized here include family fun days and BBQ picnics. These are some of the things that visitors to Clark Philippines particular look forward. Residents and tourists in Angeles City and Subic also come to Clark Freeport to partake in the fun at this Clark wine shop.
This wine shop’s vast selection of vintage wines makes it possible for Yats Wine Cellars to offer a unique line-up of wines for every private wine party, wine tasting or wine dinners. Guests of these private wine parties are treated to a rare experience of vintage wine not seen in wine shops in major cities in Philippines or even in Asia.
http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com
Getting to this wine shop in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone Philippines from Manila
Getting to the Clark Wine Center wine shop from Manila is quite simple: after entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway M A Roxas. Clark Wine Center is the stand-along white building on the right, at the corner A Bonifacio Ave. From the Clark International Airport DMIA, ask the taxi to drive towards the entrance of Clark going to Angeles City. From Mimosa, just proceed towards the exit of Clark and this wine shop is on the opposite side of the main road M A Roxas.
Best place to buy wine in Clark Pampanga outside Manila near Subic and Angeles City Philippines is Clark Wine Center.
For inquires and reservations, contact us here
Clark Wine Center
Bldg 6460 Clark Observatory Building
Manuel A. Roxas Highway corner A Bonifacio Ave,
Angeles Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga 2023
0922-870-5173 0917-826-8790 (ask for Ana Fe)
Wine@Yats-International.com
YATS Wine Cellars
Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605
(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 ask for Rea or Chay
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