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Big Projects
Weekend Meditation
One of the things I love about early fall is that it is an excellent time to take on big kitchen projects. The months of September and October are the perfect time to do this, when the weather has cooled some but the produce, at least where I live, is still rolling in strong. The kids are in school and the holidays haven't hit yet, so there's a little extra time to devote an afternoon (or an entire day) to the kitchen.
Yesterday I took a few hours to can up a small batch of applesauce just to get the ball rolling. I had a bowl of apples from the tree in my yard which yielded three pints of sauce in the end. It was fun but not quite enough to satisfy my itch. Local farms in my area are still offering U-Pick days for their San Marzano-style tomatoes, so now I'm starting to dream about canning up my own passata (inspired by Rohan of Whole Larder Love). And more applesauce, too, or perhaps even apple cider or perry (pear cider). I finally have a kitchen big enough for such tasks and with every spare minute, I'm antsy to get it messy.
And that's the other thing about big projects. They take over the whole kitchen and we have permission to make a big, crazy mess, all in the service of that final moment when the kitchen is clean again and a neat line of jars fills a shelf, or every cranny of the freezer is packed with freezer bags. Big mess, big payoff.
But my most favorite thing about big kitchen projects is that they usually cannot be done alone. Well, they can but they shouldn't be, if at all possible. Many hands make light work and the camaraderie of making that big mess together is only matched by sharing in the satisfaction of the final product. Not to mention the cleanup goes so much faster.
I hope you'll consider taking on a big project this fall. I mentioned passata and cider but there are other things as well, such as sausage making or one of those big vats of kraut (or both, since they go together so well). Just go ahead and roll up your sleeves and give up any notions of neatness. Let the tomato sauce splatter your walls and the compost bin teeter under the weight of scraps. Dirty every bowl and knife and stain all ten of your fingers the color of late season plums. Break a sweat if you have to. You (and your kitchen) will clean up just fine.
Related: Weekend Meditation: That Time of the Year
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17 Comments
I use to have a neighbor who every year would have a "tamale-making party". Just before Christmas. It was the highlight of my year. Usually end up taking home a couple of dozen homemade tamales and eating 3 or 4 that got cooked during the party. Such a great time to visit with friends old and new and do some serious cooking.
Went apple picking with my kids yesterday so today we will be making crock pot applesauce. Not sure if that counts as a big project, but can't wait to taste the fruits of our labor. Get it? Fruits! Lol!
Thanks doll,
The Glamorous Housewife
cmcinnyc, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
While I don't agree with @cmcinnyc's tone, I do agree with the frustration - tomorrow will be my first whole day off to be in the kitchen in a long time. I'm hoping to can applesauce, render some lard (if my impulse buy pork fat sitting in the fridge the past week hasn't gone bad), make a big pot of beans, and maybe even bake some bread. I've been feeling in a rut after many late nights and stressful days at work. But fall weather is finally here and as always it inspires me to cook again!
Alas, I don't have a big kitchen either nor friends to cook with (my would-be cooking buddies don't work weekends like me and thus don't have Mondays and Tuesdays off). I'll just have to make do. But sometimes, making do is the fun part.
I'm expecting my first baby in december, so this is indeed the perfect time for cooking projects...the weather in the northeast is already is making me feel like hunkering down, & i'd like to get as much in the freezer before my little one arrives as possible!
Good Information. Thanks for sharing this...
@dana velden Please share your applesauce, apple cider, and pear cider recipes!!!
I do apologize for the tone, but I seem to be continually reading about how I'll have "so much extra time" in the lazy days of summer (?) or when the kids go back to school. Next it will be cozy winter days, and then it's almost time for those lazy days of summer again. How about just "here are some great projects to dig into and worth making the time?"
Hey, all,
Just enjoy the recipes and do what you can when you can. Let each day and each task at home and away become a meditiation.Peace.
I feel ya! Seems like all the fun seasonal things require you to be a full-time housewife/husband (without kids is even better). It's hard to make modern life revolve around the seasons like 19th century full-time farmers could. Worthwhile, but hard.
cmcinnyc - I understand your reaction. I get snarky when I hear or read "the weekend's here! time for projects! (or fun and frolic or lazying around or or or) As a nurse, my "weekends" are the glorious, miraculous surprse two days off in a row that are rare as hen's teeth.
Also, I work night shift, so when my shift is cancelled, that's usually the time I take on big cooking projects.
Just picture me stirring cauldrons of soup or mounds of muffins as the world sleeps
The response that said, "its hard to make modern life revolve around the seasons..." almost got it right. But its not just hard, it's impossible. Ever wonder if just maybe, the way we live modern life isn't quite right? Maybe we aren't supposed to be going ALL the time... maybe stopping to rest is actually part of the work... Here's a lovely quote to consider, "If you don't have time to rest from your labors to enjoy life, its not life you're living."
I'm going to spend a day making duck confit (when the kids are at school).
I've been meaning to go apple-picking for the last couple of weeks but something always comes up! I'm jealous!!! I want to make fresh applesauce for my son and I've also been craving it-I'm 30 weeks pregnant!
@Neecia - YES! Exactly. Although the more research I do about 19th and early 20th century farm wives, the more I appreciate my modern life! Those ladies worked HARD and rarely had time "off." However, their daily work included things like baking bread, gardening, feeding chickens, churning butter, sewing, knitting, and cooking. Things that today many of us do for "fun." Although maybe it's not quite so fun if you HAVE to do it, and do it all day everyday.
But yes, working outdoors and doing things with your hands are seriously underrated in modern society. I like hard labor in small doses. I just wish there was more of a balance between office-type work and hard labor like chopping wood, planting things, etc.
You mean big projects like learning to render lard (unintentionally--I just wanted to buy a container of it already rendered but couldn't justify throwing it out!), then making 5 mini-batches of pie dough to test which combination of fats (butter, lard, shortening) I liked best and which was the easiest to work with. For true testing purposes, this of course also necessitated making a giant apple turnover from each batch of dough--that means 5 giant apple turnovers.
In between all this, I was transferring photos to canvas using this new method I read about last week to make some new art to hang around my apartment, and finally hanging some art that's been sitting on the floor for 6 months.
I love project weekends!
Oh, have I ever been "storing up" things that I want to get to when I have the time. (This site is a place that I've trolled for a while, bookmarking recipes and ideas.) I've warned The Man that he's about to turn into a semi-professional guinea pig. I'm lucky enough to be able to say that I'll retire in 59 days from tomorrow and all the projects and ideas that I've had on the back burner will finally get a chance to be tried.
Also, some "big projects" can be broken down into smaller bites. Since I was a little girl with my mother I've baked Christmas cookies for people as gifts. I've learned how to whip out several dozen cookies after work without feeling whipped. (Of course, dinner comes out of the freezer — I'm not a miracle worker!)


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VIADER Reviews
2012 Reviews
Bright, medium ruby-red. Brooding aromas of cassis, black cherry, minerals, smoke and licorice are lifted by a violet topnote. Densely packed, ripe and seamless, with lovely depth and complexity to its claret-like flavors of currant, minerals and tobacco leaf. Really spreads out to saturate the palate on the long back end, which features building tannins and persistent sweetness of fruit. This very harmonious wine promises to be fat and rich for Viader's flagship blend. 92-94 points (May/June 2014) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer
2012 "V" Petit Verdot Blend
Bright, deep red. Darker on the nose than the cabernet franc bottling, offering scents of blueberry, dark plum, licorice pastille and tobacco. Densely packed, broad and concentrated, with a chewy texture to its flavors of dark fruits and coffee bean. Shows serious tannic clout without dryness, finishing with building dusty tannins and very good length. 90-92 points (May/June 2014) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer
2012 VIADER "Black Label"
Bright ruby-red. Dark aromas of blackberry, black cherry and licorice are complicated by a whiff of gamey syrah and an emerging violet element. Densely packed, pliant and chewy, with a mouthfilling texture to its flavors of red berries, spices, tobacco leaf, pepper and dried flowers. This very supple blend finishes with sweet dusty tannins and very good length. Should offer early appeal, but give it a good aeration if you plan to drink it in the next 6 to 12 months. 90 points (May/June 2014) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer
2011 Reviews
Delicate perfume of redcurrant, rose petal and earth. Supple and perfumed in the mouth, with a restrained sweetness to the vibrant flavors of red cherry, redcurrant, flowers, baking spices and herbs. Finishes long and ripe, with firm tannic spine and terrific buoyancy. Very successful for the vintage, and showing the floral character of this cuvee in spades. 92-94 points (May/June 2013) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer
Bright, dark red. Lovely spicy lift to the aromas of currant, coffee, mocha and flowers. Suave, vinous and nicely delineated, with lovely inner-mouth floral perfume to the flavors of redcurrant, plum and coffee. Elegant and suave but firmly built too, finishing with sweeter tannins than the "V" and excellent length. 92 points (May/June 2014) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer
A 2011 with tension and austerity, in the good sense. Medium to full body with silky tannins and a fresh finish. Bright and fruity. Shows class and finesse. A subtle blend of 66% cabernet sauvignon and 34% cabernet franc. Drink now. 93 points (May 2014) http://www.jamessuckling.com/
2010 Reviews
Cellar Selection, 97 points
VIADER has a long history of producing great Bordeaux-style blends grown at high elevation on Howell Mountain. This 2010 is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, with almost the same percentages as the superb 2009 bottling. The wine is rich, dry and complex. It shows a fantastic array of blackberries, dates and dark chocolate, with fascinating notes of lavender and dill. The tannins are gorgeous, the acidity fine, and the application of oak is deft. It's hard to describe just how good this wine feels in the mouth. Drink now, after decanting, or within the next 20 years. -SH (Dec 2013) http://www.winemag.com/
Explosive nose offers perfumed red cherry and rose petal scents that reminded me a bit of a Barolo. Then nicely vibrant in the mouth, with lovely floral lift and purity to the red fruit flavors. If the aromas are Barolo, then the texture is more Burgundy. Tightly wound but already displays lovely sweetness. At least as lively as the 2009: will it be as fine? Incidentally, Alan Viader noted that alcohol levels for these wines are now "down to the low 14s," as the estate is making better use of irrigation to minimize vine stress so that they can pick grapes with riper skins and seeds before the sugars get too high. 92-95 points (May/June 2012) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer
Good bright medium red. Aromas of redcurrant, red cherry, mocha and nutty oak. In a lush, sweet style for this bottling, with a very fine-grained texture and good floral lift to the red fruit flavors. Substantial but very sweet tannins coat the front teeth on the long, plush back end. This seemed more explosive from barrel--or maybe it suffered by being served after the electric 2011. But this has the stuffing and balance for a graceful evolution in bottle. 93 points (May/June 2013) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer
Best of the Best: California Cabernet Sauvignon & Cabernet-based blends
Five-Star Wines: Wines of extraordinary character and quality - in a class by themselves.
2010 VIADER: Deep, complex wines. Give it time. Blackberry and cherry with oak spice, rich mocha notes, firm texture, with soft and slightly sweet finish. 5-Stars (Jan 2014) http://qrw.com/index.html
This dark ruby/plum/purple-tinged blend... reveals attractive raspberry, black cherry and black currant fruit intermixed with hints of forest floor and flowers. Elegant, medium-bodied and delicious with no hard edges, it offers a sweet inner-core of fruit, so drink this attractive, stylish 2010 over the next 10-12 years. 90 points (Oct 2013)
California Grapevine
Medium to medium-dark ruby; attractive, herbal, cedary, cassis and blackberry fruit aroma with overtones of toasty oak; full body; forward, earthy, dark fruit flavors that tend to be a bit lean on the finish; full tannin; lingering aftertaste. Approachable now, though another three to five more years of aging should help to mellow out the tannin. Highly recommended. (Oct 2013)
Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine
Redolent of ripe cherries, black walnuts, cola and briar with a vague hint of licorice lurking far in the rear, this bottling starts out with a fair bit of richness but takes a hard to turn toughness as it crosses the palate. Its blatant back-palate tannins obviate any near-term appeal and relegate it to a lengthy stay in the cellar with only a modest promise of polish. 88 points (Dec 2013)
2009 Reviews
2009: A Napa Cabernet Vintage to Cellar
The 2009s are tight and structured, good candidates for aging
The overall strength of the 2009 Napa Valley Cabernet vintage adds another layer of intrigue for fans of Napa Cabs.
...The milder temperatures of the year are evident in virtually all of the wines I've tasted. The 2009s are very tight, concentrated and well-structured—the kinds of wines that are great choices to cellar...But these are wines that are certainly pleasing to drink now, as well. They will reach a nice plateau in five to 10 years, and the best will age much longer.
...the strength and style of the vintage is apparent: Astounding quality, great structure. -James Laube (July 2012) www.winespectator.com
It has every hallmark of a young Napa Valley Bordeaux blend. It's dry, smooth and complex in tannins, with balancing acidity and an incredible array of flavors, including blackberry, black currant, cherry, chocolate, dried herb, smoky oak and spice. It has that important but hard-to-define quality of sophistication. It's delicious now, and it should develop in the bottle for at least 10 years. 95 points (Dec 2012) http://www.winemag.com
Lovely cabernet franc-dominated aromas of flowers, menthol and caraway seed, plus a whiff of dusty clove. Silky-sweet and vinous, offering seamless yet sharply delineated flavors of redcurrant, graphite and flowers, plus a whiff of meat. This really pleasures the mouth. Beautifully made and graceful wine with a very long, edge-free finish. "Two thousand nine was a classic vintage for us," noted Alan Viader. This should evolve gracefully. 94+ points (May/June 2012) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer
Best of the Best: California Cabernet Sauvignon
2009 VIADER: Bordeaux-like. Blackberry, cedar, and plum. Smooth, soft, elegant, and lush. 93 points (Summer 2012) http://qrw.com/index.html
The California GrapevineHighly Recommended. Medium to medium-dark ruby; herbal, cedary, black cherry and red berry fruit aroma with notes of cassis and cocoa; medium-full to full body; big, rich, supple, spicy, cherry and red berry fruit flavors; medium-full tannin; a bit hard and drying on the finish; lingering aftertaste. Approachable now as it developed with airing, though deserving of needed bottle aging. (Sept 2012)
8 Outstanding Napa Cabernets
New reviews of California Cabernet-based blends that follow the Bordeaux model
These wines go beyond that minimum and embrace the Bordeaux tradition of blending different grapes together to create wines of complexity and quality. Blending also implies that by adjusting the mix, flavors, colors and tannins are altered as the vintage requires.
2009 VIADER: Tight and well-built, with firm, grainy-gravelly tannins, but also a pleasant core of dark berry fruit that folds into a forest floor loaminess. Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2014 through 2024. 1,028 cases made. -MaryAnn Worobiec. 91 points (Aug 2012) www.winespectator.com
2008 Reviews
Shows the luscious fruit and softness of previous vintages, with rich, layered raspberry, cherry, cassis, vanilla, caramelized oak and spice flavors that go on and on into a long finish. The tannins are sturdy from this blend of the two Cabernets, Sauvignon and Franc, which was grown on the lower slopes of Howell Mountain. Yet it's so sweet and fruity, you can drink it now. Misses some of the complexity of the 2007 vintage, but still very fine and polished. 90 points -Steve Heimoff, http://www.winemag.com
Good full red. Enticing, complex nose combines aromas of cherry, raspberry, violet, minerals, coffee and spices. Broad, lush and smooth, with pretty floral lift to the red fruit and spice flavors. Nicely delineated in the middle palate and long on the back end, where the ripe tannins coat the teeth. The crop level here was reduced by a bad flowering, said Alan Viader, but the loose clusters were an advantage later in the season. The harvest was ultimately very early. 92 points (May/June 2011) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
Full medium red. Cherry, flowers, licorice and minerals on the nose. Then energetic and intense in the mouth, with savory fruit and floral flavors joined by a strong element of crushed rock. Not at all a candied style of Napa cabernet; in fact, this is downright serious. The tannins reach the front teeth on the long, juicy, floral finish. This is a full degree lower in alcohol than the 2007, according to winemaker Alan Viader, who left the leaves on the vines to protect the fruit against late-season heat spikes and parching sun. "The season never got too warm," he told me, "although the ripeness was jagged. It took work to get the density needed to fatten up the wines." This looks to be a worthy successor to the superb 2007. 91-94 points (May/June 2010) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
The California Grapevine
Medium to medium-dark ruby; attractive, plummy, complex, cedary, dark cherry fruit aroma with herbal notes and hints of chocolate and mint; full body; textured, cedary, cassis and blackberry fruit flavors that are a bit tight and drying on the finish; full tannin; lingering aftertaste. Needs a few more years of bottle aging. Very highly recommended. (June/July 2011) http://www.calgrapevine.com
Ken's Wine Guide Online
This dark ruby colored blend from Viader opens with a fragrant black cherry and plum bouquet with some hints of leather. On the palate, this wine is medium bodied, balanced, and soft. The flavor profile is a tasty black currant with integrated oak and a hint of black pepper. The finish is rather dry and its big and chalky tannins linger for a very long time. The panel thought this wine could benefit from cellaring. In the short term we would suggest decanting and serving with pot roast or braised short ribs with a mushroom risotto. Enjoy. -KWGTP KWG Score: 92 points (Nov 2011) http://www.kenswineguide.com/wine_review/Viader-2008
Offering mature plum and baked berry pie flavors that are atypical for a wine this young. Elegant and detailed, with subtle plum and berry notes that are pleasantly complex. Drink now through 2018. 88 points -James Laube (Nov 2011) http://www.winespectator.com/
2007 Reviews
Tanzer describes the 2007 VIADER as: "Good deep red-ruby. Lovely violet lift to the dark cherry and licorice flavors. Suave, juicy and energetic, with terrific inner-mouth aromatic appeal to the sweet berry and floral flavors. Not an opulent style but plenty sweet for 2007. Finishes with lovely length, firm but fully ripe tannins and lingering minerality. Delia Viader told me she's really proud of this wine." 94 points (May/June 2010) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
"Buying Guide" This lush wine epitomizes the modern Napa style of soft richness and extreme drinkability when young. Made from Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, it's beautiful now for its blackberry, black currant, dark chocolate and cedar flavors. For all its approachability, it should age well for the next six to eight years. 94 points ("Buying Guide," Feb. 2011) Downloadable PDF
The 2007, a similar blend, is made in the same mold, with striking elegance, slightly sweeter fruit, and more aromatic ripeness and projection, thanks to better vintage material. This is a well-balanced, understated, gracious wine to drink now and over the next 15 years. 90 points (Dec 2009): https://www.erobertparker.com/entrance.aspx
California Grapevine
2007 VIADER, Napa Valley – Medium to medium-dark ruby; attractive, plummy, spicy, cedary, cassis and dark berry fruit aroma with hints of green olive and licorice; full body; forward rich, textured, complex, cedary, black fruit flavors with good depth and concentration; medium-full to full tannin; lingering aftertaste.Very highly recommended. (Oct/Nov 2010)
Good bright ruby-red. Aromatically complex nose offers blackberry, licorice and violet. Sweet but quite backward, with noteworthy energy to the black cherry and licorice flavors. With the lowest percentage of cabernet franc since the 2003, this finishes quite firm, with building tannins and lingering notes of minerals and graphite. Today the "V" comes across as riper and more expressive, but this may be more serious. 91-94pts (May/June 2009) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer
Good deep red. Fresh, new-oaky aroma of blackberry and licorice. Much more closed and medicinal than the flagship blend, but with a similar floral quality in the mouth. This is tougher and less expressive today but not at all heavy for all its breadth. Rather powerful acidity currently accentuates the wine's tannins, which coat the teeth. Finishes with a note of bitter chocolate. This actually boasts very good balance and depth for petit verdot but will require patience. 91 points (May/June 2010) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
Good deep ruby. Musky blueberry aromas lifted by violet and orchid (the note of exotic flowers comes from the very ripe petit verdot component in 2007, says Delia Viader). Sweet, dense and lush, combining good inner-mouth perfume with serious underlying structure. Cocoa powder and spice flavors resound on the expanding finish, where sweet tannins dust the front teeth. 91-93 points (May/June 2009) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
2007 VIADER Syrah
Good red-ruby color. Dusty violet and black raspberry on the fresh nose. Sweet, smoky and intense, with lovely inner-mouth floral character providing lift and perfume. There's a hint of smoked meat here, but this shows more of the floral side of syrah; still, I find it more varietally convincing than most recent vintages of this bottling. Finishes clean and persistent, with plenty of tannic support for development in bottle. A big success for this cuvee. 91 points (May/June 2010) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
Bright red-ruby. Varietally expressive nose offers raspberry, smoked meat, rose petal, violet, mocha and brown spices. Sweet, spicy and juicy, with vibrant notes of spices, flowers and cocoa powder. There's no new oak to get in the way of the wine's red fruit perfume. This has a pH of 4.0, notes Alan Viader, and yet the overall impression is one of freshness and lift, probably due in part to the 12% whole clusters that went into the fermentation tank. One of the most convincing barrel samples of syrah that I've tasted here to date... (it seemed a bit more pliant and floral [since] last year.) 90-93 points (May/June 2009) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
2006 Reviews
Currant and violet on the nose. Supple, sweet and nicely aromatic in the mouth, offering more breadth than the "V". The violet note carries through to the back of this ripe and attractive wine, which finishes with firm, building tannins. Winemaker Alan Viader has been doing more extraction since 2005, including a longer pre-fermentation cold soak and more post-fermentation maceration. He told me that total time on the skins in 2006 was between 55 and 69 days, whereas not long ago it was more like 30 to 35 at VIADER. 92 points (May/June 2009) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
Four-Stars "California 2010": Sweet, ripe, berry nose. Powerful yet not too heavy or extracted, firm ripe tannins, a bit austere and chewy, but should come round in time. Good length. 2012-2020. -Stephen Brook Four-Stars (Sept 2010) http://www.decanter.com
The 2006, a blend of two-thirds Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Cabernet Franc, is laid back, restrained, yet an enticing style of wine made with a picture of Bordeaux clearly in its sights. Subtle graphite, raspberry, and black and red currant notes, along with some crushed rock and floral scents, emerge from this elegant, medium-bodied wine, which has avoided the rugged tannins sometimes present in this vintage. Drink it over the next 10-12 years. 88 points (Dec 2009)
While there have been many flashy, supple, opulent 2006s, this group shows the vintage in its tighter, more compact, tannic and backward persona. These wines need cellar time, more so than many other 2006s.
2006 VIADER Napa Valley Score: 90
Bordeaux-like in its mix of flavors and structure, offering loamy earth, dried currant and berry, with touches of anise, sage and mineral. Ends with firm, dry tannins. Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2010 through 2016. 1,799 cases made. —J.L.
(Posted: August 17, 2009)
Good deep red-ruby. Subdued but rip nose offers cassis, black plum, bitter chocolate, rose petal and sexy oak spices. Bigger, broader and lusher than most past vintages of this bottling, with rich, smooth flavors of dark plum and bitter chocolate. For all its weight (this is clearly a larger-scaled wine than the 2005), it managers to retain a light touch. Finishes with big, broad, rich tannins that reach the teeth. Still a bit youthfully musclebound but built for a slow and positive evolution in the bottle. This was the first vintage to be vinified by Alan Viader, who does a longer maceration than previously and makes greater use of delestage to aerate the must and extract color and flavor. The flagship wine was macerated for 45-50 days in both '06 and '07. 91-94 points (May/June 2008) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.2006 VIADER Syrah
Good full ruby-red. Bitter cherry and licorice on the nose; a bit less animal than the 2005, which I preferred on this most recent tasting (I scored it 90 points this time, vs. 88 a year ago). Juicy if a bit rigid in the mouth, offering flavors of bitter cherry, dark chocolate, minerals and mint. Finishes fresh and leafy, with rather polite varietal character. This reminded me of a drier-styled St. Joseph. 88 points (May/June 2008)
Aromas of black-cherry, licorice and bitter chocolate. Juicy, spicy flavors of black fruits and flowers; not a fleshy wine but silky and fine-grained. Finishes with firm but ripe tannins and lingering notes of currant and dark cherry. 90(+?) points (May/June 2009) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
Good red-ruby. Currant, pepper, licorice, rose petal and nutty oak on the nose, plus a light meaty nuance. Supple, broad and juicy but not at all sweet. Nicely ripe, pure flavors of blackberry, bitter cherry and violet. This shows less of the leafy quality of the 2005 version. Elegantly styled wine, finishing with good breadth and a lingering flavor of bitter cherry. 90-92 points (May/June 2008)
2005 Reviews
2005 VIADER Highly complex nose offers currant, plum, blueberry, bitter chocolate and herbs. Suave, silky and downright creamy in the mouth, with lovely breadth and palate coverage. Fresh but harmonious acidity gives this a rather sophisticated texture. In comparison to the easier, fruit-forward 2004, this one is more characterized by its bite and structure. 92(+?) points (May/June 2008) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
2005 VIADER "V" Good full ruby-red. Notes of licorice, leather, flowers and mint on the nose. The palate offers a juicy, high-acid impression, with a leathery edge to the intense flavors of bitter cherry and dark chocolate. Conveys a slightly leafy Medoc aspect and offers lovely inner-mouth aromatic character. Finishes with firm tannins and a lingering floral quality. 89(+?) points (May/June 2008) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
2005 VIADER – Cellar Selection. It is entirely conceivable that this blend of the two Cabernets could improve dramatically with time in the bottle. Currently, it's a very dry, firmly tannic wine, with black currant, mocha, cherry and new oak flavors that have a distinctive edge of sweet herbs, figs and tobacco. Improves considerably with airing in the glass, so decant if you drink it anytime soon. 92 points (Nov 2008)
Best of Year
2005 VIADER Sleek and elegantly styled, with spicy currant, sage, dusty berry, mineral and pleasant herb and sage notes. Well-balanced, even delicate and detailed. 69% Cabernet Sauvignon and 31% Cabernet Franc. Best from 2009 through 2014. 2,119 cases made. 91 points –JL (Sept 2008)
2005 VIADER Barrel Tasting
Firm and concentrated, with spice, anise, currant, herb and cedar flavors that are well-proportioned, tightly focused and rich and persistent on the finish. (92-94 points) -JL (Aug 2006)
California Wine Guide: "Cal Cabs to Hunt Down"
2005 VIADER rated as a Four-Star wine!
"Effusive nose of violets, dried herbs and black fruit. Slightly jammy, but crunchy acidity, solid tannins and creamy vanilla moderate the ripeness."
-Linda Murphy (Sept 2008)
TASTED Magazine: The Wine Guide by Andreas Larsson, "Best Sommelier in the World"
Andreas does not use a score system, but rather assigns categories such as "My Top Picks" and "I also liked."
"My Top Picks": 2005 VIADER Proprietary Red Blend
"I also liked": 2005 VIADER "V" Petit Verdot Blend
(Winter 2008/09)
Best of The Best :
California Red Blends
Blending is an art form, as these wines ably demonstrate.Many California wineries offer, in addition to 100-percent-varietal red wines, top-end blended reds. Most of these blends are based on Bordeaux models, and contain varying proportions of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The aim is to achieve a wine in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts...
5-Star California Red Blends
Wines of extraordinary character and quality — in a class by themselves
2005 VIADER - Lush, round, elegant, blackberry, coffee and vanillin flavors. 5 Stars (May 2009)
2004 Reviews
2004 VIADER Good deep ruby-red. Understated but precise aromas of dark berries, graphite and sweet oak. Then sweet, lush and soft, with a texture of liquid silk. Flavors of black and red cherry complicated by licorice. Finishes with very fin, suave tannins and lovely length. A distinctly feminine style of wine. Proprietor Delia Viader describes the 2004 vintage as elegant and supple, even soft, while 2003, she says has more punch, and shows more obvious tannins and alcohol. 92 points (May/June 2006) http://www.wineaccess.com/tanzer.
2004 VIADER "V" Good red-ruby color. Blackberry and licorice on the nose. In the mouth, this comes across as juicy and firm-edged following the estate wine, less silky and more brisk. Perfumed notes of orange peel, jasmine and licorice add interest. Finishes with very firm tannins. It must be noted that my sample was almost entirely petit verdot, as the cabernet had not yet been blended in. 90 points (May/June 2006)2004 VIADER Syrah Good ruby-red. Pure, ripe aromas of raspberry, black cherry and flowers. Suppler and sweeter than the 2003, with intriguing hints of smoke, earth and game adding flavor interest. This has lovely purity of fruit. The crop level was under a ton an acre, says Viader. 89 points (May/June 2006)
Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine
2004 VIADER Warm and black, this is a superripe Napa Valley red – 60 percent cabernet sauvignon, 40 percent cabernet franc – with a ferrous edge of tannin. It's soft and ready to decant for steak. —Wolfgang Weber 90 points
2004 VIADER Smoke, black cherry and currant aromas are clean. Supple, elegant and balanced, this keeps the fruit at the forefront, ending with mild tannins. Drinks well already. Now through 2012. -JL 87 points (June 2007)
Master of Wine, Andrea Immer-Robinson
2007 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone
This "wonderfully smooth" Napa Cab blend feels like cashmere for the tongue. Its "glorious fruit," sweet complexity are "as good as any of the cult Cabs" but an elegance that's rare in the category. Taste: Outstanding

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Just days after the second anniversary of Michael Jackson's death, his iconic Thriller jacket has been sold - for $1.8 million! From cnn.com:
The red and black jacket, winged shoulders and all, that the late pop star wore during his zombie-ridden "Thriller" video fetched a $1.8 million bid at this weekend's Julien's auction in Beverly Hills, California, according to the auctioneer's website.
Maybe I should put my MJ jacket up for bid. Wonder how much I'd get for it?
For those of you wondering who will receive that $1.8 million, let me give you a hint. It won't be his children, his mother, his creditors, or even papa Joe:
Part of the proceeds will go toward the Shambala Preserve where Jackson's two Bengal tigers, Thriller and Sabu, have been living the past five years.Yes, MJ's cats are now richer than we will ever be. Doesn't it make you want to yell and grab your crotch?


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Im debating on whether to do it with the new color still
Love the Clean Air Challenger you got there, that must be way modded!!!
just bought a 2000 silver prowler! it matches my BSP Challenger nicely!
Love my BSP. So glad I didn't buy a 2013 blue. Saw one the other day and too dark for me.
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Movie News
AMAD Special Tribute: Edgar Wright worships at the altar of VIRGIN WITCH (1971)!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the first of at least 6 and maybe 7 special tribute A Movie A Days. I've asked many friends and constant readers of the column that work in the industry if they'd be interested in doing one-offs looking at a vintage movie they hadn't seen before and writing it up for the site. I'll post one a day until they run out. It's looking like Saturday will the final Tribute article. Edgar was the first to respond and not only that, but he was also the first to get his review to me. I won't say anything more. Why should I? Mr. Wright has the floor for his thoughts on VIRGIN WITCH!
I don't usually write on this site, but when young Quint asked me to contribute a piece for his AMAD column, he found me in a mode watching three movies day and I accepted without hesitation.
My enthusiasm to do so was mostly fuelled by my admiration for Quint's near year long journey through film. I get pretty OCD about watching films I haven't seen before and so could appreciate his epic quest to tick some cinematic boxes. Especially since he covered many of my favourites; DAMES, THE BLACK HOLE, FRENZY, SHOT IN THE DARK, THE HOT ROCK and THE SENTINEL among many others.
But perhaps I was more excited by the prospect of discussing a film that had only just left my DVD player. The disc was still warm. The feature in question?
This article is longer than most of Quint's entries, may take longer to read than the film in question and quite possibly took longer to write than the screenplay itself. But I feel compelled to write as it's always a thrill to discover a 'bad' film that absolutely, thoroughly entertains.
There's an intense glee as you watch, partly because you know you will share the experience with others.
But what typifies a 'bad' film anyway? Conventional wisdom would suggest it's atrocious film-making, laughable writing and horrific acting.
But if a film consistently entertains, can it really be bad?
Is RIKI OH a spectacularly terrible film? Or does it flat out rock? How can something so ridiculously ripe, so ridiculously gory, so ridiculously entertaining be a 'bad' film.
Is THE ROOM an inept Ed Wood spectacle for the 21st century? Quite possibly. But it is also one of the most consistently funny films of the last ten years.
Where do you place SHOWGIRLS? Is it an embarrassing folly or the new BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS?
How do you rank Russ Meyer's film for that matter? Some would actually put it on the so-bad-it's-good pile. I, on the other hand, would genuinely hold it aloft as so-good-it's-amazing. And many critics would agree. (Not least Roger Ebert)
BTVOTD was on my all time top ten list for EMPIRE Magazine and not as an ironic choice. I absolutely love it.
I have long been of the opinion that the only truly bad films are those that are bland, boring or offensively brainless.
If I'm engaged as an audience member then I'm having a good time.
I was in the theatre at the 2007 TIFF showing of MOTHER OF TEARS, with Dario Argento in attendance. I have no idea how the maestro felt about the screening as the audience reacted with gales of laughter. But, just as tellingly, they also responded with huge cheers and applause, too.
When people ask me how I liked that film, I replied genuinely that it was his most entertaining in years.
I cannot separate an enjoyable experience watching a film from its perceived cinematic worth.
Was 2008's RAMBO a good film? Not by conventional standards perhaps.
Was it one of the most entertaining screenings I attended in 2008? You betcha.
I'm going to drop the Robert Evans speak, but will stress again my thinking that there are two kinds of films; good films and dull films.
I like to subscribe to Quentin Tarantino's thinking that he has no guilty pleasures in film; if he likes it, he likes it. End of story.
Thus I can happily rank RAMBO alongside HUNGER in my films of the year and feel no real need to measure their worth against each other or compartmentalize them beyond that.
Much like 'guilty pleasures', I don't really like to use the phrase 'so bad it's good' either. I prefer to think such films are 'party films', one that I know I can show to friends and have a grand old time living vicariously through their peepholes.
Twice I've shown RIKI OH at the New Beverly and half the buzz is hearing the audible reaction of newcomers, getting a kick out of their virgin experience.
With that in mind, I watched a film yesterday that would be considered by many to be dreadful. But halfway through VIRGIN WITCH, I was already planning who I could watch it with next.
And indeed, I've already seen it a second time with a friend.
Much like young Quint, I have an infinite list of films from all eras that I want to catch up with, preferably on the big screen, but often on DVD.
VIRGIN WITCH is a British horror film made in 1971 that I've had on DVD for over a year. Borrowed from a friend in fact. It first entered my airspace because it happens to feature a 20 year old Vicki Michelle in various states of undress.
British readers (and Anglophiles) of a certain age will know the bosomy Miss Michelle from saucy French occupation sitcom 'ALLO ALLO.
My interest is usually piqued by the promise of TV icons from my childhood turning up in Hammer Horrors, Carry On films or the tawdrier versions of both.
Whether it's Joanna Lumley in THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA, Stephanie Beacham in AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS or Wendy Richards in CARRY ON GIRLS, there's always an amusing thrill to be had from seeing sitcom stalwarts, vintage hotties and RADA trained English Roses in B movies.
I tried to conjure up as diverse a cast of British actresses and personalities as I could when I made my DON'T trailer; inspired by the appearance of kids television sexpot Jenny Hanley in Pete Walker's THE FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW.
Ultimately I came up with the unlikely ensemble of Emily Booth, Lucy Punch, Myanna Buring, Georgina Chapman, Lauren Laverne and Katie Melua. Alongside Jason Isaacs, Matthew Macfadeyn, Nick Frost, Mark Gatiss and Stuart Wilson, I was really aiming for a cast as wild and disparate as THE SENTINEL.
Vicki Michelle was the only actor I knew of in VIRGIN WITCH.
But as it turns out there were some other interesting people involved. Vicki Michelle's sister Ann (PSYCHOMANIA, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE) is involved in the majority of the nudity as the titular witch. Michael Caine's first wife Patricia Haines plays a striking and stern lesbian modelling agent.
Most intriguingly, the film was written, under the pseudonym of Klaus Vogel, by Beryl Vertue, the executive producer of COUPLING and indeed Stephen Moffat's mother in law.
The producer 'Ralph Solomans' was also a joint pseudonym; for TV soap creator Hazel Adair and wrestling commentator Kent Walton.
It's somewhat ironic that there were so many reputable British TV names working anonymously on a film about a secret coven in London's high society.
Indeed, as I discovered, the producers were named and shamed in a mid 70's expose of their sexploitation credits. That documentary was the brilliantly titled MAN ALIVE.
And man alive, is VIRGIN WITCH an amazing credit to have on your resume.
I was inspired to finally watch it, after a good year of having the disc, as I'd just re-watched Hammer film BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB (starring DON'T style goddess Valerie Leon) and its bonus disc of vintage Hammer trailers.
This in turn got me thumbing through Simon Sheridan's excellent KEEPING THE BRITISH END UP, an exhaustive trawl through the seedier side of British comedy and horror. When I read the VIRGIN WITCH entry, I knew it was time to dig out that disc.
And lo, a new party classic was found.
Interestingly the factor that first perked my ears up, the promise of copious ALLO ALLO related nudity, quickly got old.
There is so much nakedness from the Michelle sisters in this film that it fast becomes akin to watching a naturist film. If the Michelle sisters had started playing ping pong in their birthday suits at one point, I would not have been surprised.
I'd go even further to say there is too much nudity in the film. (There's a pull quote you'll never see). Beyond the Michelle sisters continual disrobing, we pretty much see the entire cast in the buff.
Now, I'm no body fascist, but there are some actors whose naked bodies do not need to grace the silver screen.
80 per cent of those actors are in this film.
It would be fair to say the film sags in these sections, but otherwise it rollicks along at quite a clip. Like I said, no film that is so furiously packed with incident can be bad.
Indeed VIRGIN WITCH starts at a hell of a lick as it finds the young Michelle sisters on their way to big bad London town from the sticks.
We first see them hitchhiking by the side of a country lane in the dead of night, their cases in hand, hoping to get a ride to the Big Smoke. Some looped exposition over a lingering shot of their legs informs us that the Michelle sisters hope to get modelling work when the reach the bright lights of Soho.
Within seconds, their knight in shining sportscar arrives in the form of Keith Buckley's Johnny, who possibly pips Craig Wasson in BODY DOUBLE as cinema's most pervy hero.
Johnny, a sleazy cad in his late thirties gives the Michelle sisters a ride to London and takes an instant shine to young Vicki. He warns them of the perils of modelling agencies advertised in newsagent windows and backstreet photographers who 'promise the earth'.
Suddenly Ann Michelle screams 'look out' and Johnny narrowly swerves around a stalled car on the windy road.
Johnny is amazed by Ann's foresight and exclaims "You must be able to see in the dark!". Vicki replies portentously, "She can."
Cue wobbly crash zoom into Ann's eyes and spooky piano sting.
And five minutes in, I'm sold.
From this ripe moment of spookiness, the film continues much like GARTH MERENGHI'S DARK PLACE for real.
The Michelle sisters take Johnny's advice about backstreet modelling agencies and instead Ann signs up with Sybil Waite's fancy fashion agency that she finds with her amazing pre-cog powers in a style magazine.
As it turns out the haughty and towering Sybil is no less sleazy than the grubby backstreet pornographers as she is quickly revealed to be highly lesbotic.
As Ann disrobes so that Sybil can double check her statistics; we see the fashion agent angle a mirror to watch her drop her knickers and flip a switch to throw blinding light on her nakedness.
After confirming that Ann's bust and waist measurements are correct, Sybil has a something of a Sapphic meltdown when attempting to measure her waist.
She quickly recovers and fakes a call from a client, by pressing a button under her desk to make her phone ring. (What amazing gadgets she has, she's the Blofeld of lesbian fashion mavens).
Sybil acts out an 11th hour request for models needed for a 'cider shoot'. This faux assignment is faultlessly acted out within the eager Ann's earshot. Perhaps she could be the last minute deployment?
Well, of course she can.
If she'd be unavailable for the weekend shoot, then VIRGIN WITCH would end right here and there's still over an hour of gratuitous and ultimately weary nudity to come.
The scene at Sybil Waite's agency is pretty indicative of the film's odd style. Clearly of a lower budget than even the Hammer horrors, the film has a curious dream-like quality. The lighting and photography are pretty basic, but there are glimmers of a Man Ray or Kenneth Anger approach in the use of stark black backgrounds and bright red and green splashes of colour.
Couple this with odd mixes, the occasional cool germ of a camera angle, the misplaced romantic score and the whole post dubbed shebang feels like some fevered cheese dream.
There's obviously a big ROSEMARY'S BABY influence here and the pervading grubbiness of this waking nightmare is enough to make one exclaim "This is not a dream, this is really happening!".
It's also quickly worth pointing out that while Ann is booking her 'cider shoot' at Lesbian Creative Management, poor Vicki is back at Chez Michelle being felt up by bounder Johnny who wastes no time in trying to get his dirty paws all over the poor traumatised country girl.
It's only Ann returning from her fashion world initiation that stops Johnny from christening their new pad. She rescues Vicki from a second date and no doubt, second base, by insisting that her sister accompanies her on the 'cider shoot' in the country.
Johnny, who we soon discover is a philandering, two timing rotter, makes his excuses and leaves. But he will be back. And in spectacular fashion.
And so, the Michelle sisters are driven to the shoot by the fearsome Sybil. Their destination? The curiously named Wychwood Manor.
This particular manor is indeed within a wood…
A wood in an area that has a long history of…
Well, you get it.
Wychwood Manor is a country pile owned by Doctor Amberley, a world authority on – would you believe - witchcraft. It looks exactly like one of those suburban mansions that turn up in the seediest of British porn films of the 80's. I'd be willing to lay money on it being one of those very places.
The Michelle sisters welcoming committee is somewhat disturbing in that every single man or woman on the estate, be it the hatchet faced housekeeper or the grinning groundsman, leer at the young sisters like slobbering hounds.
Even the visiting milkman is presented as a potential rapist brute.
That said, the stream of sure to be Satanist perverts can hardly be accused of undressing the Michelle sisters with their eyes, as the ladies themselves strip off in every other scene. A drinking game that could prove fatal to your liver would involve taking a shot every time Ann Michelle takes her shirt off, takes her knickers off or has a shower with the curtain open. It's every five minutes for the 85 minute duration.
Pretty much the remainder of the film is made up of stripping, showering, Satanism and slavering extras.
This is where the film gets into its sleazy groove, coming off like a Benny Hill episode directed by David Lynch, with a legion of sinister dirty old men and women frothing at the mouth at our nubile leads. Albeit without the speeded up sexual harassment or comedy sound effects to accompany.
Presiding over this horny bunch is the cad of cads, Doctor Gerald Amberley, (played by the suave Neil Hallet) who has an incredible bedside manner when diagnosing Vicki after a faint spell.
The silver tongued, silver haired actor has a classic scene when he tries to calm young Vicki after she has been brutally ogled in the garden. The avuncular fellow asks if she felt that the men working at the house were mentally undressing her. When she replies yes, he exclaims "And quite right too, you're a beautiful young thing!".
He then quickly surmises that she too must have similar sexual urges, correctly identifies her as a virgin, tells her she's had a repressed upbringing and should cherish her oncoming womanhood.
And the doctor's final prescription for her immediate well being?
"A nice, hot bath. Does wonders!"
Vicki quickly cheers at his advice and strips off for bath time. Not surprisingly the doctor retires to the adjacent room with a peephole to spy on her.
Dirty bastard.
While all this is going on, Ann Michelle's 'cider shoot' has her stripping naked halfway through the first roll of film. It soon unravels into a steamy romp with the weedy, poor mans David Hemmings of a photographer.
The spying Sybil is green with envy at this hetero coupling as she watches from the ferns. She quickly breaks up the 'cider shoot', before any cherries can be popped.
Sybil is furious at her faux photographer getting dibs on Ann and who she claims she only hired because she "thought he was a queer".
From here, the plot lurches into its shocking second act revelation; the shoot is a sham, the place is a coven, the leering denizens are all devil worshippers and yes, the clue was in the title.
That said, the alternate title was LESBIAN TWINS, which all told is a bit of a rip, since the Michelle sisters don't at any point get busy and they are not really twins.
(A better title might have been CARRY ON UP THE WICKER MAN. No wait, is that HOT FUZZ?)
The catalogue of spookiness continues in softcore Scooby Doo fashion as we discover hidden temples, black magic tomes and witness Ann's initiation in the occult by way of her having missionary position sex with the good doctor on the altar.
This unedifying act of unholy mish is made even more insane by the fact that the surrounding circle of acolytes are all naked and dancing first in a big Hokey Cokey circle and then in a crazy free form jazz hands fashion.
Indeed, despite the terrifying nakedness, this coven seem a pretty jolly crowd, they have no stated plans for world domination, just grubby designs on Ann and Vicki.
The third act finds Ann Michelle totally unconcerned with her new status as Virgin Witch and seemingly quite pleased about it. She soon conspires to use her new powers for bad and take her revenge on her spurned would be lesbian lover Sybil.
This consists of Ann casting spells over Sybil's B&W headshot and turning her from a smiling face to a howl of pain. That's some seriously bad 10 x 8 juju.
The climax of the film finds newbie necromancer Ann joining the devilish cult in a grand outdoor ceremony where Vicki is to be defiled.
But they hadn't counted on Johnny, our hanging plot strand of a douche bag.
The character of Johnny nudges this already highly entertaining camp oddity into party gold. His arrival at Wychwood in the finale is preceded by an ongoing subplot as strung out as Scatman Crothers return to the Overlook.
And with a just as surprising twist.
Interspersed between the Michelle sisters stripping antics, we see Johnny with his singer girlfriend (the cheating rotter!) at a smoky Soho club, but visibly unable to forget his romantic fumblings with Vicki.
He then returns to their Michelle's humble flat to find both the word 'WYCHWOOD' scrawled in a diary and the advert for Sybil Waite's agency.
Investigating further at Sybil's offices he finds black and white glossies of all manner of naked ladies stuffed into her bureau. While trying to pin down the location of Wychwood Manor, we see his POV of two different models in the nude.
This. Will. Become. Important.
A couple of scenes later, Johnny is closing in on Wychwood. But the rapey looking milkman is no help and neither is the grinning groundsman.
But. Then.
Johnny spies two ladies leaving a local pub on bicycles. A clumsy flashback to those B&W glossies shows that he recognises them as the two models from Sybil's files.
That he manages to identify their 70's boobs having only met them fully clothed for a split second is hugely impressive (implausible).
Johnny's total recall puts Ann's clairvoyance to shame and marks him out like a pervy Rain Man with his amazing memory for B&W nudie pics.
His naked hunch is right, these girls from Sybil's dodgy stable and are heading to Wychwood Manor that minute.
Johnny follows them to the demonic hotbed and is alarmed at the Michelle sisters reluctance to leave. He also seems less concerned by the fact that they are in the grip of an obvious satanic cult, than he is about their lesbian sham of an employer.
Throughout, VIRGIN WITCH there's a worrying homophobic streak as it repeatedly marks out lesbianism as being more abhorrent than Satanism. It's no coincidence that the only person who actually dies is Sapphic Sybil. Her voodoo stabbing by the Nouveau Witch is pretty much the end of the film and we're supposed to cheer for her demise. Hmmm.
But that's not quite the ending. What of our cheating knight Johnny? Does he interrupt the climatic ceremony? Does he redeem himself with an act of chivalry? Does he snatch the virginal Vicki from the jaws of her impending cherry popping?
Well, yes and no.
Our 'hero' Johnny goes to rescue the naked Vicki from the satanic ceremony by pretending to be the Devil himself with the use of a ceremonial mask.
When unmasked, does he carry Vicki off to safety? Run off with his lady in his arms?
Not immediately...
So as not to arouse suspicion among the frenzied cult, Johnny actually proceeds to have sex with Vicki on the slab. As you do.
Then, once the rest of the cult are in their crazed freeform jazz bloodlust, Johnny wraps Vicki up in his robes to protect her modesty and like Prince Charming finally carries her off...
Into the bushes. To have sex with her again.
This is the end of the film. Johnny having sex with Vicki a second time. In the bushes.
As knight in shining armor endings go - it's right up there with AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN.
And as the credits roll on lesbians dying by voodoo and a cheating boyfriend deflowering a 20 year old in the stinging nettles; the rollercoaster ride that is VIRGIN WITCH has come to an end.
There are a many classic out there I've still to see and will spend the rest of my days enthusiastically filling in the blanks of my film knowledge.
And yet, while there are still works of art by Kurosawa and Bergman that I've yet to watch, I know too that I shall watch VIRGIN WITCH again.
Maybe a further three or four times. With different friends.
But I do know that, while I strive to watch a movie a day, a masterpiece like VIRGIN WITCH (aka LESBIAN TWINS) does not come around that often.
While we have time on our hands, we should cherish these films.
Is it too much to ask to give 89 minutes of your time to the VIRGIN WITCH?
Happy New Year.
p.s. It's worth pointing out that director Ray Austin is one of the few makers of the film to use his real name. And for that I salute him. He has nothing to be ashamed of.
He is the alchemist who gave us party gold. Ray Austin gave us VIRGIN WITCH.
Thanks Edgar! I don't know about you guys, but I read that review and jumped right over and bought myself a copy of Virgin Witch! How can you not? Keep an eye out tomorrow for the next in the line of AMAD tribute articles!
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Jan. 12, 2009, 2:29 a.m. CST
And RIP Ray Dennis Steckler
by palimpsest
He would have enjoyed this movie. Ta Quint, and Edgar! Nothing finer that British sleazy horror!
Jan. 12, 2009, 2:55 a.m. CST
You had me with...
by WavingFlagsInSpace
Vicki Michelle. Ah, Rene!
Jan. 12, 2009, 2:59 a.m. CST
here is a complete brit gem you have to see...
by ferrisdownunder
Edgar, if you see this, if you haven't seen HORROR HOSPITAL grab a copy now!! The best entertainingly great 'bad' film starring Robin Askwith??aka the guy from the 'confession' movies. A burnt out british hippy or 'bippy' leaves his crappy band to take a holiday in the country...a resort run by a crazy scientist (Alfred from Burton Batman), a midget (always good value) and various henchmen dressed in motorbike leathers and helmets to disguise the fact they could only afford 2 guys. I could praise it for hours but i won't, you just have to see it for the car with built in head removing blade (that you can see a flash of prop guys hand chucking a head on screen). Brill Brill Brill.
Jan. 12, 2009, 3:02 a.m. CST
I can say without a doubt...
by BuckminsterOhare
that was the longest amount of time I've ever spent reading about 70's horror porn.But hey, what's the internet for,right?(Aside from actually WATCHING porn.)Can't wait for more AMAD specials.
Jan. 12, 2009, 3:19 a.m. CST
Hi Edgar - your Butcher Bros here...
by Charlie & Tex
...love the review - who couldn't love a movie with Ann Michelle in various states of undress? She'll always be most fondly remembered to us as Jane in Psychomania. All the best, amigo!
Jan. 12, 2009, 3:23 a.m. CST
Mmmmm...softcore Scooby Doo...
by DerLanghaarige
I think I already mentioned my attraction to Velma a few times before.
Jan. 12, 2009, 3:31 a.m. CST
Listen very carefully, I will say this only once...
by alfiemoon
That's a great review. One of the most fun that I've read on the site. I applaud the philosophy that there are no "guilty pleasures", too. This sounds like a lot of fun.
Jan. 12, 2009, 4:55 a.m. CST
Aw man, I'm still sad that AMAD had to come to an end.
by DerLanghaarige
Jan. 12, 2009, 5:13 a.m. CST
That was awesome.
by Knuckleduster
After that review, Virgin Witch is right up there with Watchmen on my must-see list.<p> Kudos for mentioning Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Edgar. That show deserves more praise.
Jan. 12, 2009, 5:16 a.m. CST
Anyone seen You Can't Stop The Murders?
by Knuckleduster
It's an Aussie comedy that has some funny similarities to Hot Fuzz. Always wondered if Edgar and co. saw it before making their movie.
Jan. 12, 2009, 6:38 a.m. CST
by alfiemoon
...is definitely required viewing for any schlock horror fans.
Jan. 12, 2009, 8:21 a.m. CST
by Boba Fat
You clearly spent to much time in the late 70's trawling British TV's, then three channels, for wanking material and it's effected your movie taste permanently. Strange to think, in these porn drenched times, that back then it was late night horror or a french film on BBC2 for a teenage geek and his rampaging hormones.
Jan. 12, 2009, 8:34 a.m. CST
I feel vindicated as
by Shut the Fuck up Donny
Edgar wanted to get peeks of Joanna Lumley and Wendy Richard in their heydays too! <p> And I love the shoutout to Darkplace. That automatically bumps up the "must see" factor of this film.
Jan. 12, 2009, 9:24 a.m. CST
I just watched this 4 weeks ago!
by Sith Witch
And was floored by it. I can't believe it's now got such a loving review on AICN. Part of me feels like I wanted it to remain obscure, and the other part of me wants it to be shared with the entire world!
Jan. 12, 2009, 9:33 a.m. CST
Guilty pleasures...
by Mr Gorilla
Nice piece, brilliant piece, the one bad thing being that surely the movie can only be a disappointment after that fantastic description. But surely there ARE such things as guilty pleasures: films which overtly contradict morals you might hold, but which you enjoy anyway. I guess the cineaste egghead 'guilty pleasure' is BIRTH OF A NATION. And you admitted to being a little guilty about enjoying a film where the satanists get to live but the lesbian dies; oh, and the heroine gets rescued from non-consensual sex by a cheating boyfriend who then screws her anyway.
Jan. 12, 2009, 10:11 a.m. CST
Right fucking on.
by buffywrestling
Next to Patton, I was hoping Edgar would be doing one of these. Not only was their commentary for Spaced full of win, Edgar put up some great year ending blogs himself. This is such a treat, man. Thank you!
Jan. 12, 2009, 10:42 a.m. CST
The top four "S"'s of 70's shlock film making:
by buffywrestling
Stripping, Showering, Satanism and Slavering.
Jan. 12, 2009, 10:46 a.m. CST
by eggart
Jan. 12, 2009, 10:47 a.m. CST
by listo65
Jan. 12, 2009, 11:07 a.m. CST
Edgar, see THE UNBORN
by JimCurry
If laughing hysterically at a movie means its a good filmgoing experience, then you'll have an effin' ball during the ridiculous UNBORN.
Jan. 12, 2009, 11:35 a.m. CST
Awesome idea Quint
by wash
Thanks for keeping this going (temporaily at least).
Jan. 12, 2009, 11:36 a.m. CST
Nice review, will look out for the film
by MontyPigeon
Always love watching crappy horror films ever since the days of the first video store. They would rent me anything and by the age of 13, I had seen nearly every horror on the rack. I'll probably buy this on DVD.<p>As for the trailer "Don't", I always thought you took the idea from "Corruption" rather than "The Flesh and Blood show". The scene with Nick Frost reminded me of the scene with what looks like a train guard in the "Corruption" trailer.<p>The Flesh and Blood Show is also in the it's so shit, it's amazing list.
Jan. 12, 2009, 11:46 a.m. CST
I don't know, I'm just sayin 70's boobs were different
by Raymar
Ya know?
Jan. 12, 2009, 12:13 p.m. CST
A spoiler alert may of been handy
by earlfist
Dear Mr. Wright, you are a fine director, whose work I greatly admire. But you are a poor Quint. You don't strike me as needing a yes man, and I am sure you won't mind me saying that was a bit anal. You had me at Vicki Michelle naked. That's enough to set me searching. Can't read the rest as it will ruin the plot. Thanks anyway.don't give up the main job!
Jan. 12, 2009, 12:23 p.m. CST
I loved this because I know
by eggart
I will never see the film in question.
Jan. 12, 2009, 12:37 p.m. CST
If we could put Script Girls's boobs on Edgar,
by Dr Gregory House
the world would be in balance. Don't be a stranger Mr. Wright.
Jan. 12, 2009, 1:26 p.m. CST
Thanks, Edgar!
by Archive
And I know what you mean about incident covering so much ground in the viewing experience. At the same time, so much of that is covered by personal taste... I love Millenium, but does it hit me as a work of art, or even craft, on the level of 2001 - a film it clearly wrestles with? The enjoyment of a Bic Mac over a well-prepared filet mignon in bourdelaise has nothing to do with the quality of the ingredients. Truth be told, when I eat a Big Mac, I do feel a bit guilty for doing that to myself.
Jan. 12, 2009, 1:49 p.m. CST
have always hated the phrase "guilty pleasure"
by slappy jones
never should you feel guilty for liking something. One mans citizen kane is another mans the happening. See I loved The Happening. Quite possibly the best time I had at the movies last year. Was it for the reasons the film makers intended? well if they intended to make the funniest film of the year then yes but I have a feeling that wasn't the goal Doesn't take anything away from the fact that I loved every single minute of it. and I will never feel guilty about it.
Jan. 12, 2009, 2:17 p.m. CST
by Dancingforever
What happened to great satanic cult movies? These were so good in the day and they have somewhat disappeared. I think if any genre deserves a rebirth it would be the Satanic Cult Genre, maybe mix in a little film noir with it and of course have the big twist where the sympathetic protagonist turns heel in the third act. Just talking about this gets me excited to write something. Perhaps something with a modern twist where Satanic Cultists battle Scientologists, think werewolves vampires in Underworld movies where each would have cool powers. The Scientologists would have mental attacks and also financial devestation they could cause. The Satanists would have wicked music and maybe upside down cross daggers they could throw.
Jan. 12, 2009, 2:31 p.m. CST
Ray Dennis Steckler died?
by TheContinentalOp
That's the worst thing that's happened to me this year. And I got dumped the other day. On a related note, I want to see a movie called "Naked Hunch."
Jan. 12, 2009, 2:43 p.m. CST
Stephenie Beacham
by fitzcarraldo2
What film(s) does she get nude in?
Jan. 12, 2009, 2:51 p.m. CST
Just added this to my netflix queue
by rhcp2sweet
congratulations Mr. Wright, you sold me.
Jan. 12, 2009, 2:58 p.m. CST
by Continentalop
Greatest. Title. Ever. They really should have gone with that name. <p> Someone should make a film called that right away. I can't imagine that film not doing any business, even if it sucked people would still flock to it because of the title. Hell I'll write it: <p> FADE IN: <P> INT. HOUSE - NIGHT<p> Sitting down, reading, is the LESBIAN TWINS... <p> ----------------------------------<p> See, it writes itself.
Jan. 12, 2009, 3:15 p.m. CST
'Naughty French Wine'
by The_Skook
That commercial... from the distant past... Wasn't that Vicki Michelle as well? Bless her and her penchant for berets! Cheers Edgar!
Jan. 12, 2009, 3:48 p.m. CST
"It would be fair to say the film sags in these sections..."
by ChickenDelicious
I see what you did there...
Jan. 12, 2009, 4:06 p.m. CST
Read it in Edgar's Richard Ayoade accent
by Dataset
Very funny... Edgar, you need to do some Hammer films! They're back now, so go live your dream. This generation needs a Terence Fisher. I mean, it's an eight day shoot, or six on a Red Epic. We need more Hammer!
Jan. 12, 2009, 4:24 p.m. CST
by a rolling stone
Is there such a thing as a virgin witch?
Jan. 12, 2009, 4:24 p.m. CST
Very funny indeed, sir. And Vicki Michelle...corrrrr!
by Mr Nicholas
Jan. 12, 2009, 4:25 p.m. CST
by a rolling stone
Ira Levin did that truck all the time- you'd follow the story through the victim's pov, only to awake at the end.
Jan. 12, 2009, 4:26 p.m. CST
by a rolling stone
Not truck. Ira Levin never did any trucks. Not that I know of.
Jan. 12, 2009, 4:27 p.m. CST
by a rolling stone
Can this movie be considered "whitexploitation?"
Jan. 12, 2009, 4:30 p.m. CST
by a rolling stone
I'm glad they didn't remake Rosemary's Baby, but what about The Beast Must Die? That was a good story, werewolf clock and all.
Jan. 12, 2009, 4:31 p.m. CST
Or Phantoms
by a rolling stone
Fuck Affleck. It was a good story, though. I don't think he was the bomb.
Jan. 12, 2009, 6:36 p.m. CST
by olson71
for summarizing the entire movie. now i never have to see it
Jan. 12, 2009, 7:28 p.m. CST
I was taking the piss....
by earlfist
Too much arse kissing can blister the behind.
Jan. 12, 2009, 10:17 p.m. CST
One subcribes to, not prescribes to, thinking.
by Mostholy
Carry on.
Jan. 12, 2009, 11:10 p.m. CST
by ROBRAM89
I loved that line. Also made me wonder: if Edgar had seen this before making HOT FUZZ, would there have been a reference to this somewhere? Undoubtedly.
Jan. 13, 2009, 1:24 a.m. CST
I liked this review quite a bit but...
by alynch3
...I could've done without that line about Bergman & Kurosawa. That line released my inner-snob.
Jan. 13, 2009, 6:39 a.m. CST
Quin'ts a liar thanks goodnes AMAD lives
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
And we thought we'd seen the last.
Jan. 13, 2009, 6:46 a.m. CST
Speaking of camp/horros classics
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
I was at the grocery store in December and for only $14 they had a calendar/DVD set. It feauted some unknown, but some well known movies and posters. The poster was the illustration for the month, and the DVDs of the movies were included. It has The Brain that Wouldn't Die (classic bad movie), Night of the Living Dead, Teenage Zombies, Dementia 13, House on Haunted Hill (classic Vincent Price) The Terror (maybe one of Karloff's last) The Devil Bat (Lugosi), Nosferatur, The Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein's Daughter, Revolt of the Zombies, and White Zombie (yes that's where Rob took the name). I was tempted to get it but it was still pricy even for just over a buck a movie. Then last week since it's already January it went on sale for $3.75. Sold, suckers. I've already seen two of the flicks. The Terror has probably one of the worst Jack Nicholson performances in existence.
Jan. 13, 2009, 6:46 a.m. CST
Stupid typos
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
that is all.
Jan. 13, 2009, 7:11 a.m. CST
by DocPazuzu
Holy shit, nice to see the love. If the rest of you haven't seen this... thing... yet, then proceed to do so with all haste. The Room is quite possibly the greatest awful movie ever made. Essential viewing if you have even the slightest shit-tooth.
Jan. 13, 2009, 7:49 a.m. CST
by Elston Gunn
Is that the mask from ONIBABA covered in silver paint? Looks like it.
Jan. 13, 2009, 11:43 a.m. CST
Gath Merengi's Darkplace
by nemesisdarkside
is fantastic. Very rewatchable.<P>Everything "Learner/Reed" and "Sanchez" say cracks me up.
Jan. 13, 2009, 11:45 a.m. CST
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Jan. 13, 2009, 11:45 a.m. CST
Garth Merengi*
by nemesisdarkside
my fingers refuse to obey me!!
Jan. 13, 2009, 1:14 p.m. CST
by Darthkrusty
THE NIGHTCOMERS features some lovely topless Stephanie Beacham. Cool/weird early 70's flick starring Marlon Brando.
Jan. 13, 2009, 1:17 p.m. CST
by Darthkrusty
always thought that was a spoof of LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE more than anything
Jan. 13, 2009, 8:27 p.m. CST
If Vicki Michelle was 20 at the making of this film...
by Sydney2K
How old was she when she did 'Allo 'Allo???? In her 40's?
Jan. 13, 2009, 8:28 p.m. CST
Mr Nicholas? It's
by Sydney2K
"And Vicki Michelle... phwoarrrrr!"
Jan. 16, 2009, 4:50 a.m. CST
now this is just plain cool
by The Amazing G
Jan. 16, 2009, 12:11 p.m. CST
by Stengah
fuck yeah
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lilrabbit129 said...
I won't argue the "I'm and enchanter so I should get first dibs on stuff no one needs" issue, that's been argued to death.
I will argue on this point
"Just because you CAN turn loot that EVERYONE would normally get into something with more worth, does NOT entitle you to force a roll on someone who is gathering something that NO ONE ELSE can even access had they not been there. However if the miner/herbalist/skinner offers for you to roll, by all means do so."
If there was no enchanter then the rest of the group could not access the mats. They could vendor the item, which is better than letting a node/herb/skin sit in the instance. It would be similar to the situation where Mat the Miner ( for some unknown reason) does not want to mine a node. Except the UI tells everyone that Mat is a miner, and now the group is bugging Mat to tap the node for them.


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Bayern Munich sporting director Matthias Sammer is renowned to play a huge role in the signings at the German outfit. Therefore, when Matthias Sammer puts an end to transfer rumors suggesting Bayern Munich want to sign in Manchester United star Wayne Rooney that means Wayne Rooney will not be wearing the red of Bayern next season.
In a recent press release Matthias Sammer revealed that Bayern Munich were least interested in signing Wayne Rooney. Matthias Sammer added that he had no idea as to "what Rooney would bring to the Bundelsiga".
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It is thought that Sir Alex Ferguson's departure from Manchester United might have prompted Wayne Rooney to move away from Old Trafford. Interestingly, that alone is not the reason behind Wayne Rooney's desire to move away.
Wayne Rooney's frustration is because of him being shifted to the midfield from the forward position and being dropped from the first-team. For reasons unknown, Sir Alex Ferguson dropped Wayne Rooney from the first-team in the crucial Champions League match against Real Madrid.
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Sir Alex Ferguson has himself revealed that the 27-year-old England international has handed in a transfer request which is being looked at. Bayern Munich could have been a possible destination for Wayne Rooney, but the Bundesliga champions appear to be uninterested in acquiring his services.
"I don't know what Rooney would bring to the Bundesliga," Mattias Sammer said. "I can't answer that. I can answer that we have great respect for Wayne Rooney but there has been no contact with him. There is no contact and he's not on the agenda. No, no. Absolutely not."


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The Time Lords are descended from Sidereals.Bureaucratic, arrogant, scheming, double dealing, watching the universe from isolation while using others as their agents (in a very hush-hush-no-we-didn't kinda way) to control the universe, able to warp time on a personal level and capable of mental communication and esp, who's only proactive members have to go into exile. Death is even one of their gods (according to the spin-off novels).
First Age Solars are Time Lords.At the height of their power they went absolutely crazy and had to be removed - Time War is The Usurpation!
The Old Ones were Time Lords.The reason they had such hard time with Necrons despite their being basically weaker Daleks was that their war with them was well before Rassilon and the development of time travel. They are not extinct: They simply left our galaxy alone following their war with Necrons and the creation of Immaterium. (They are now all but extinct anyway.) The current GRIMDARK situation is indirectly caused by the Time War: The Time Lords did return later to fix things, but the Daleks cancelled it out.
The Emperor is a Time Lord. And the four chaos gods were daleks.In the case of the emperor it is practically stated judging by the fact that before his mortally wounded state he was 38000 years old. All the problems in the galaxy during 40ks timeline is because the Doctor caused humanity to be extremely xenophobic. The chaos gods were daleks who keyed into the warp and became gods and opytomized all of the daleks possible emotions. Nurgle became there urge to kling to life and never let go. Khorne became their hate. Tzeentch embodied their ambition to rule the galaxy. Slanesh became the pain that they felt when they lost.
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- Hair Dryer
- Internet Access - Wireless
- Internet Access - Wireless (Complimentary)
- Laundry Service
- Luggage Storage
- Mini Bar
- Non Smoking Rooms
- Refrigerator
- Restaurant
- Room Service
- Safety Deposit Boxes
- Satellite/Cable Tv
- Shower
- Smoking Area
- Television Lcd/Plasma Screen
- Tours
- Wi-Fi In Public Areas
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Kelvin from Chicago, IL
March 12, 2011
March 12, 2011
Super friendly staff and helped plan our entire trip in vietnam.
This was a wonderful hotel to stay at. The staff was extremely friendly and they helped plan our entire trip in Vietnam. The price and service were both great. They planned all our city tours and travel from north Vietnam to middle Vietnam and then to Saigon in the south, all at the very best price and met our needs. I highly recommend this hotel. The rooms were nice too. Not a 5 star hyatt or Hilton, but if ur looking for a nice clean hotel, this is it. Contact the hotel ahead of time if coming from the airport. They will pick u up and send someone to drop u off as well. ...
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