Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Ten Questions With…
Jane Lopes
Manager, LUSH Roscoe Village
A native of sunny California, Jane grew up virtually surrounded by the vineyards of the Bay Area and exposed to the culture of eating, drinking, and breathing wine earlier in life than many of the Lushies, which may help to explain her deep-seated passion for all things fermented. The moment she walked into the shop for an interview, decked out with electric orange, rubber robot earrings dangling beneath her flaming locks, we knew she was meant for LUSH. In the precious few moments when not running the show as manager and wine buyer at LUSH in Roscoe Village, Jane’s [also tall & redheaded] doppelganger can be found slangin’ classic cocktails at the Violet Hour one night each week. Ms. Jane has an ingrained knack for discerning obscure nuances and flavors, as well as a gift for creating amazingly quirky flavor combinations and innovative, classically inspired cocktail recipes. Like both Rachel and Erin, curiously enough, Jane is also a University of Chicago graduate, rounding out the three stores’ trifecta of innate, total geekiness. Word on the street is that she harbors a literary nerd deep within, and may or may not have been a notoriously clever Shakespeare scholar while in school. True to her alma mater, Jane will happily get down and dirty and all educational with you over whatever wine or spirit about which your little heart desires to learn. (more…)
Tags: Alinea, andrew jefford, Avec, Baumard, bongran vire clesse, California, Chenin Blanc, Clos de Goisses, cornelissen, crush wine, dave wondrich, Didier Dagueneau, elena walch, elmer t. lee, Eric Asimov, Home Bistro, Hot Doug's, Jane, Jeffery Steingarten, Lettie Teague, Lula, lush wine, macle, Movia, paillard, paixar, Pappy Van Winkle Rye, Publican, rootstock, Roscoe Village, schiopetto, Sepia, taxim, Terragusto, Thackery, theater, university of chicago, Urban Belly, Violet Hour, whistler, xoco
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
by Ms. Rachel Driver, LUSH Manager
So, as a good little Lush, and as a complete geek in life and in wine, I often blog hop and read what other people are thinking and writing about wine, beer, spirits, and food…and sometimes anthropology or other fun tangents. And, I came across this quote in the Wine Enthusiast blog…
‘As a literature lover, I often bristle when asked to name my “favorite author” or “favorite book of all time.” While I have a clear and consistent idea of what constitutes solid writing, a good plot and interesting characters, I’ve found over the years that my taste for stories and tone is dynamic and certainly influenced by events and people in my life at that given time. While as a romantic teenager I devoured the poet Shelley and all of the breathless effusion he offered, today I turn to the worldliness of Miller, the caustic wit of Plath, the blunt magic of Marquez. And while sinking into a dense, head-bending session of Dostoyevsky makes perfect sense in the dead of winter, it’s not what I want in my hand when I’m kicking back on a beach in the tropics (think Marquez). I love them all, but to choose just one to encompass everything I was, am and might be, is pretty much impossible.’
‘Telling the Tale of the Soul…with Wine’
Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 5:31:57 PM
by Susan Kostrzewa (more…)
Tags: Avec, Bergaglio, favorite wine, Franchetti, Mado, Pappy Van Winkle Rye, Schwa, Susan Kostrzewa, Wine Enthusiast
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