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Mail costs - US to Slovenia from FlickrFew days ago I decided that my iPod Touch is going to need a bit of protection if I am going to carry it around. After a bit of thought I decided to order Sena Ultraslim Pouch since I wasn't too thrilled about some of the other cases that look a bit to chunky for everyday use. Not too pricey and with a special offer 9.99 dollars for international shipping it seemed a pretty good deal. I grabed my debit card and ordered it straight away. The only problem was that I forgot to rea
Dagens reisebilde: Rødt i rødt i Piran Tilbake til Europa fra gårsdagens besøk i Tunis. Dagens bilde er hentet fra en stopp ved Slovenias vestkyst. Pirans virvar av smale og kronglete smug er deilige å gå seg bort i. En middelaldersk by i stein, stort sett i brunlige farger. Røde tak tett i tett. Lave portaler. Klesvask henger til tørk fra de fleste vinduer og balkonger, omtrent som i Disneys Lady og landstrykeren. En stille by ved Adriaterhavet. Over byen troner en gammel kirke på den ene høyden og en , ser det ut til, like gam
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Montenegro, Israel, San Marino, Slovenia, Belarus: Pop Rocks I know I'm ploughing through these with a fervour that makes Johnnn's obsession with Fleetwood Mac look like he's maybe heard a song by them once and kinda liked it. But I'm in a rush to review them all by Tuesday when the first semi-final is broadcast. So expect a couple of big, loosely-held-together round-out posts in the next few days, after which I never, ever, ever want anything to do with the Eurovision ever again (until next year). Well, anyway, here's the other dubious trend for
Lifelibrary To Be Screened at Days of Ethnographic Film Festival in Slovenia A film about Manchester Central Library is to be screened at the Days of Ethnographic Film Festival in Slovenia. The film by Amanda Belantara looks at the library from the perspective of sound. This sonic visual experiment was also mixed in Pro Tools! The film will be screened next week in Slovenia after successful screenings in North America. Visit Amanda and watch the trailer at http://www.lifelibraryfilm.com For more information on the Days of Ethnographic Film Festival visit http://onl
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Slovenia this summer Entertainment On Slovenian Seaside If you are planning visiting Slovenia this summer, you are probably already aware of all activities that Slovenia offers. From trekking, mountaineering, climbing, cycling to canyoning, rafting and horse riding. But are you still trying to find another reason to visit Slovenia? Ready for some new action? Ready to party? The best place to do that in Slovenia is on Slovenian seaside and two of the best towns to stay are Portoro? and Piran. Portoro? and Piran ar
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Slovenia Estate Agents Slovenia Estate Agents - Finding the right Slovenia Property for You Slovenia property has been forecast to grow by 280% over the next decade and has been named one of the top ten investment property destinations in the world. Here we will look at how to choose a Slovenia estate agent and a property that?s just right for you. Go Direct there are lots of ?middlemen? offering Slovenia property for sale and most are not regulated by local law. You should only deal with a regulated Slovenia esta
Slovenia Property Slovenia Property - Why it?s a World Top 10 Investment Destination Slovenia was recently voted one of the top ten investment destinations in the world to buy for capital gains and with a forecast growth of nearly 300% over the next 10 years, more foreign buyers are purchasing property than ever before. Here we will look at the reasons why. 1. Economic Growth Slovenia is a member of the EU and has the fastest growth rate of any of the new EU members. Slovenia is located between the establish
Follow-up The second Regional workshop of cultural portals, Belgrade 2007 Magacin Culture Centre, Kraljevica Marka 4 The second workshop of cultural portals from the SEE region was held on December 3-4, 2007 in Magacin Culture Centre in Belgrade, organized again by SEEcult.org with the support of the Goethe-Institut Belgrade, and bringing together the most active members of the inSEEcp in order to assess the results of joint activities and plan the agenda for 2008. Among the participants, beside the r
Founding the inSEEcp The first Regional workshop of cultural portals, Belgrade 2006 Goethe-Institut Belgrade, Knez Mihailova 50 The inSEEcp was founded by representatives of SEEcult.org (Serbia); Culturenet.hr, Kulturpunkt.hr, Culturelink.hr and Knjiga.hr (Croatia); Radio Student, Artservis.org and Evrokultura.org (Slovenia); Culture.in.mk (Macedonia); Bosniaexpress.com (Bosnia). It was founded at the first workshop of regional cultural portals, held on November 27-29 in Belgrade, and organized by Belgrade based
The inSEEcp?s History The Informal Network of South-East European Cultural Portals - inSEEcp was founded in November 2006 in Belgrade as the result of the first regional meeting and workshop of the representatives of key cultural portals from the region of former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia). The workshop ?Culture on the Internet / Networking Participants in the Cultural Domain in South-East Europe through Specialized Internet Portals?, was the first initiative of tha
HRW report: ?The Netherlands: Discrimination in the Name of Integration? Human Rights Watch publicou onte un informe de 45 páxinas sobre a discriminación na política migratoria dos Países Baixos. Segundo HRW, a proba que deben superar aqueles que pretenden un reagrupamento familiar está dirixida explicitamente a evitar que entren os turcos e os marroquís. A proba custa 350 euros e están exentos da mesma os cidadáns da Unión Europea e doutros países ?desenvolvidos? como Noruega, Islandia, Suíza, Liechtenstein, Estados Unidos, Canadá, Australia, Nova Zelanda, Xapón e
May 4 Recap KESSEL SCORES THREE AS USA TOPS SLOVENIA HALIFAX (Sports Network) - Phil Kessel notched a hat trick as Team USA rolled to a 5-1 win over Slovenia in the preliminary round of the 2008 World Hockey Championships. Patrick Kane and David Booth also lit the lamp for the Americans, who got an 11-save performance from Tim Thomas. Thomas has allowed one goal in two games thus far. Anze Kopitar, Slovenia?s lone NHL player, notched his country?s lone goal. Robert Kristan stopped 32 shots in defeat.
May 2 Recap TEAM CANADA OPENS TOURNAMENT WITH WIN OVER SLOVENIA HALIFAX (The Canadian Press) - It?s only one game into the IIHF World Hockey Championship and Dany Heatley has already found a pretty cool souvenir. He?ll be taking a puck back to his home in Ottawa after passing Marcel Dionne to become Canada?s all-time leading scorer at this event. The second of three goals he scored during a 5-1 win over Slovenia put him in the record books on Friday. ?I?ll put that one on my mantel,? he said. Heatley
From the Balkans to the Balkans fifth day of rehearsals saw most of the countries participating in the first semi-final rehearse for the second time. The day started in the Balkans with Montenegro and ended, well, in the Balkans with Bosnia.
Slovenska povpre?na neto pla?a: 878.73 EUR Povpre?na mese?na bruto pla?a je po za?asnih podatkih v marcu 2008 zna?ala 1352.87 EUR, neto pa 878.73 EUR, je danes objavil dr?avni statisti?ni urad. Povpre?na mese?na bruto pla?a za marec se je v primerjavi s februarjem zvi?ala za 2.0 %, neto pa za 1.6 %. Glede na lanski marec so bile povpre?ne mese?ne bruto pla?e za marec 2008 vi?je za 8 %. [Vir: poslovni-utrip.si]
I had a pleasant breakfast this morning with Marco Oberto of Ciabot Berton, traditionalist wine producer from Piemonte. We tasted a bottle of his 2003 "Vigna Capalot" Langhe Nebbiolo; his old-school, fermented-in-cement Barolo 2003 won't be ready to drink for at least a few more years. Light in color, this real-deal Nebbiolo has lots of stuffing, clean-flavored yet full of woodland fruit, impressive structure and a relatively long finish. The oak is under control; the wine spends about a year in Slovenian botti (medium-sized barrels). Right now it seems just...
The passionate Alice Feiring and her new book, The Battle for Wine and Love, have fanned the flames of the natural winemaking debate. In particular she has bruised the feelings of the California wine industry, to which she has not been very complimentary. This has resulted in some lively back and forth on the side of the Californians in The Los Angeles Times, hardly a surprising forum for the pro-California view. I applaud Alice’s spirited attack on industrial wines and support of wines with personality and a sense of place. Her intensity has helped keep the debate a debate.
Extreme positions help sell books and it looks like Alice has done a good job in riling up the Californians and keeping her book in the headlines. I’m sure if the truth came out Alice, like me, has a long list of California wines she loves.
It’s becoming the spoofulators vs. the natural movement and the main spoofulators seem to be in California. Yet this raises the question of what’s really natural or not and at what point the line is crossed from one to the other. It’s not as clear as it may seem. At some point it is just as bad to do too little to the wine as it is to do too much. Bad wine is bad wine, natural or not.
Let’s take a look at the revered (I agree) wines of Josko Gravner in northeastern Italy on the border with Slovenia. Gravner ferments and ages his white wines on the skins and seeds for six or seven months in terra cotta amphorae coated with beeswax. This has a somewhat dramatic (to say the least) impact on the flavor and color of his wines. Is this natural winemaking or a kind of natural spoofulation? The wines of Gravner are extreme wines manipulated to that style by the hand of the winemaker. Are the techniques of Clark Smith more intrusive than this? I’m not sure this is a question that has been answered.
There are a few buzzwords out there that seem to define the natural wine forces: biodynamic, indigenous yeasts, little or no sulfur and never, never any machines. Yet there are a whole array of interventions other than these that winemakers impose on their wines either because they dream of crafting great art like Gravner or because they are commercial winemakers that must put out a good tasting stable wine year-after-year to keep their jobs. It seems a bit preposterous to return to primitive methods of winemaking that more-often-than-not have the potential to produce faulted wines. Not all progress is inherently bad and any good winemaker will do everything needed to improve their wines. Many winemakers resolve this conflict between their desire to be part of the natural movement and the realities of putting better wine in the bottle by forgetting to talk about certain things when they talk to the press.
Great wines are made, they don’t just happen. That’s why they call them winemakers. There is an incredible array of tools and knowledge available to today’s winemakers. To not make use of any of these tools and techniques does not make any sense. However, what you do with these many new tools is all important. You can’t make wine without manipulation, but without a doubt you can’t make great wine with with over-manipulation. I believe in terroir. I have tasted it in wines way to often to have any doubt. As long as a winemakers manipulations are designed to enhance that terroir I don’t have any problems with them.
In the long and storied history of Wine Blogging Wednesday, several bloggers have hosted the monthly virtual tasting twice. But only one, founder Lenn Thompson of LENNDEVOURS, has hosted three times. As of today, you can add my name to the WBW three-peat list as I again take up the reins and choose the theme.
The previous two times I’ve hosted, red wines were featured: first lite in alcohol, then full-tilt in the other direction. So this time out, I’ll pick my favorite white variety, Riesling. But not Riesling grown just anywhere, but where the grape first achieved noble status in the Old World: Germany, Austria and France’s Alsace region. In this terroir, the variety produces some of the most interesting and long-lived white wines from bone-dry to lusciously sweet.
Pick any style you like, at any price point, and join me as we explore Old World Riesling on Wednesday, May 7.
To participate, just pick up a wine made from Riesling grown in Germany, Austria or Alsace (OK, Northern Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovenia are also fine) and blog about it. If you don’t have a blog, sign-up and post at the WBW Community Blog. Once you have posted, send me an email at winecast (at) gmail (dot) com with “WBW 45″ in your subject line. Sometime after May 7th, I’ll post an event round-up here.
I hope you enjoy this theme as much as me and pick up a bottle from somewhere you have not tried yet. I think you will be very pleased with the resulting value.
The 2004 vintage of this wine received a bronze medal at the Decanter World Wine Awards last year (2006). I’ve only been able to find the 2005 vintage in Belgrade wine shops. It has an intensive and complex aroma with hints of flowers. Dominant tastes are those of melon and slightly of apricots. However, I wasn’t impressed, perhaps I expected more due to all the hype. Or perhaps there’s a significant difference in the two vintages. We should note that this winery has a good reputation. The Simcic Sivi Pinot 1990 was awarded the Cordon d’Excellence; their Chardonnay has won two gold medals at the Ljubljana Wine Fair and the 1994 vintage was declared Champion by the Knights of the Burgerland-Pannonian Order.
This wine is characterized by a yellow-green colour, a fresh citrusy aroma with hints of honey and a complex flowery aftertaste. It’s a semi-dry riesling, dryer than the Slovenian rieslings (such as Laški Riesling for example), but sweeter than those found in Serbia. It is a nice wine to accompany a lighter meal.
This is one of the wines available in Belgrade restaurants in 0.2l bottles, so if you’re a driver among non-wine drinkers (meaning you can’t order a whole bottle of some fine wine) it’s a good chance you’ll be in a position to try it. Do so.
A magnificent Malbec! It picked up a trophy at the inaugural Wines of Argentina Awards held in Mendoza in 2007, having wowed the international panel of judges - included among them wine expert Jancis Robinson, who gave it an impressive 17 out of 20. This mulberry and spice-flavoured red wine was made by Herve Fabre, who was originally involved in the Bordeaux wine trade, before he and his wife fell in love with Argentina and moved there to establish a boutique winery. Herve's experience in producing top quality wines shines through in this tremendously rich, silky-smooth wine. Ripe blackberry and bramble aromas merge seamlessly with spicy oak and vanilla flavours. Full bodied, yet seriously smooth and warming. This 89 Parker point wine is sure to survive for many years to come. Definitely a wine to enjoy with fine food ... try it with rare roast beef or a juicy steak.
"Wonderfully succulent, rich berry fruit with hints of spice box." (Parker). A must-have wine from this superb estate, once provider of the second wine of Cos d'Estournel. "Blackberries ... herbs ... hints of spices." (Wine Spectator)
As fans of this famed winery will know, Cheval Blanc is the benchmark in great St Emilion. Awarded a near-perfect score of 99 points by Wine Magazine, this 2001 vintage doesn't disappoint. A wealth of concentrated fruit and a subtle use of oak make this a wine of accomplishment that will continue to evolve for years to come. "Silky, pure-fruited and smoothly (violet) perfumed with high ripe, silky tannins. Fabulously serious wine that grows on the palate." Wine Magazine
As fans of this famed winery will know, Cheval Blanc is the benchmark in great St Emilion. Awarded a near-perfect score of 99 points by Wine Magazine, this 2001 vintage doesn't disappoint. A wealth of concentrated fruit and a subtle use of oak make this a wine of accomplishment that will continue to evolve for years to come. "Silky, pure-fruited and smoothly (violet) perfumed with high ripe, silky tannins. Fabulously serious wine that grows on the palate." Wine Magazine
Awarded a perfect 100 points by both Robert Parker and the Wine Spectator, this is a rare opportunity to possess a wine that would top any wish list! Benefiting from a stellar vintage and the majestic touch of Lafite, this is the epitome of perfection. "Subtle aromas of currants, leather, tobacco and cedar. Classic cigar box nose, with fruit. Full-bodied, with an amazing texture of silky, ripe tannins. This wine completely coats your palate, but caresses it at the same time. A triumph." James Suckling, Wine Spectator
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The previous two times I’ve hosted, red wines were featured: first 
To participate, just pick up a wine made from Riesling grown in Germany, Austria or Alsace (OK, Northern Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovenia are also fine) and blog about it. If you don’t have a blog, 
The 2004 vintage of this wine received a bronze medal at the Decanter World Wine Awards last year (2006). I’ve only been able to find the 2005 vintage in Belgrade wine shops. It has an intensive and complex aroma with hints of flowers. Dominant tastes are those of melon and slightly of apricots. However, I wasn’t impressed, perhaps I expected more due to all the hype. Or perhaps there’s a significant difference in the two vintages.
This wine is characterized by a yellow-green colour, a fresh citrusy aroma with hints of honey and a complex flowery aftertaste. It’s a semi-dry riesling, dryer than the Slovenian rieslings (such as Laški Riesling for example), but sweeter than those found in Serbia. It is a nice wine to accompany a lighter meal. 