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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020
Changing hairdressers
Dear Annie: I’ve had the a “Yes, of course, why?”
same woman, “Veronica,” I politely said, “Your day
doing my hair for several has lasted longer than your
years now. She also does deodorant,” and presented
my pedicures and massages. that person a salt crystal
I love her shop and all of deodorant to try. There was
her co-workers, but
never a problem
I’ve never been very
after that! — Com-
DEAR
happy with how she
passionate Sniffer
ANNIE
cuts and colors my
Dear Compas-
hair.
sionate
Sniffer:
It usually takes
Kudos for resolving
a week or more to
an awkward situa-
get my hair back to
tion using empathy
how I like it after
and generosity.
each appointment.
Dear Annie: I
I’ve talked with her ANNIE LANE would like to add
Creators
about it, but nothing
some advice for the
Syndicate Inc.
has changed. When
95-year-old
man,
Veronica was out
“Lonely,” who has
having surgery, “Kirsten,” been lonely since his wife
one of her employees, did died. As someone who
my hair, and I liked it a lot has lost a loved one, I can
better. I want to start hav- understand how he feels.
ing Kirsten do my hair, but A support group is help-
Veronica is very sensitive ful and a possible place to
and tends to get defensive. meet people, but not peo-
Any suggestions? — Hairy ple who are ready for a rela-
Situation
tionship. I wasn’t ready
Dear Hairy Situation: for a while and had turned
I know that it’s the easiest down dates for a long time.
advice to give and the hard- I had a friend who encour-
est advice to follow, but aged me to join a running/
I’ll say it anyway. Be hon- walking club after my loss,
est. Stay positive yet truth- and it was the best thing I
ful. Make the focus how have ever done. I was not a
much you liked how Kirsten fast runner, so at fi rst I was
did your hair, rather than hesitant. But after I joined,
the fact that you don’t like I realized that no one cared
how Veronica does it. Tell how fast I was. Everyone
her how much you love her was friendly, supportive and
pedicures and massages and encouraging. To this day my
would like to keep seeing friends are people from the
her for those.
Manasota Track Club. In
If you feel too bad to fact, that is how I met my
speak up, try this useful current husband. We met on
thought experiment: If you a New Year’s Day morning
were in her shoes and a cus- run on the beach.
tomer expressed all that to
I recommend he join a
you, would you be angry? club that interests him. In
It’s your hair. Anyone less our club, there are people in
than the best won’t cut it.
their 80s and 90s who walk,
Dear Annie: I recently and even some who run.
saw a letter to you about Walking with people not
workplace body odor. Years only improves your cardio-
ago, we had a similar situa- vascular health but also ben-
tion. We had to work in very efi ts your emotional health.
close quarters, and one per- You feel better after walk-
son who worked the very ing or running with good
early morning shift had a friends. And it gets you out
real problem. Everyone of the house! — Betsie
talked about how awful it
Dear Betsie: That last
was; however, nobody did point alone is reason enough
anything but jabber about to get involved with an
it. Feeling bad for that per- organization of some kind.
son, I went into the small Thank you for sharing how
room, asked the person picking up a simple hobby
whether they knew that we can be invigorating, even
were friends and all, and got life-changing.
The ‘beerifi cation’ of Northwest wine
business reputation, did not
wish to be identifi ed.
Rothwell said the No. 1
thing a winemaker can do to
extend shelf life is to keep the
pH level about 3.2. He said
aluminum disintegration can
also be slowed by using a can
liner designed for wine.
“Your liner is everything,”
he said.
By SIERRA DAWN
McCLAIN
Capital Press
KENNEWICK, Wash.
— Many Northwest wine-
makers, attempting to
reach new consumers, are
trying to make their wine
more convenient and less
pretentious by putting it in
aluminum cans.
Some winemakers call
this the “can revolution ”
while others call it the
“beerifi cation” of wine.
Canning wine is con-
troversial and has created
rifts within the industry,
but the rising popularity
is undisputed. Across the
Northwest, sleek alumi-
num cans resembling soda
or Red Bull are cropping
up in grocery stores and
restaurants.
“Four years ago, canned
wine was a tiny industry,”
said Brad Mayer, senior
vice president of market-
ing at Precept Wine in
Seattle. “Now, it’s huge.”
Mayer was speaking to
a crowd at the Washington
Winegrowers 2020 Con-
vention and Trade Show.
What consumers
want
Canned wines are pop-
ular among younger gen-
erations. According to
Mayer, consumers ages
21-34 make up 10% of
total U.S. wine drink-
ers, yet purchase 33% of
canned wine.
Winemakers
say
they’re trying to appeal
to the customer who’s on
the go. Industry data show
consumers are buying
canned wine to take where
they wouldn’t bring a bot-
tle: to camping trips, beach
bonfi res, concert venues,
tailgate parties.
“I
can’t
reiterate
enough how convenient
it is,” said Julian Barton,
founder of Vice Canning
Challenges and
strategies
Sierra Dawn McClain/Capital Press
Canned wines are popular among younger generations.
Inc. in Wilsonville. “Boat-
ing trips, hiking. People —
including me and my bud-
dies — bring cans where we
wouldn’t carry glass.”
In canned wines, accord-
ing to Mayer’s research, rosé,
sparkling wine and fl avored
varieties are best-sellers. The
No. 1 fl avor choice, Mayer
said, is watermelon.
Can sizes in Europe are
typically smaller, according to
Lulie Halstead, CEO of Lon-
don-based consumer research
fi rm Wine Intelligence. In the
U.S., although some wine-
makers opt for smaller sin-
gle-serving cans, most cans
contain 375 milliliters, about
half a bottle of wine.
Critics say average con-
sumers don’t realize how
much they’re drinking when
they consume a single can.
Canned wine marketers, they
add, take advantage of inex-
perienced wine drinkers’
ignorance about quantity and
quality.
Short shelf life
With canned wines,
“aging” is impossible. Shelf
life, said winemakers, is abys-
mally short. After just two
months, according to a recent
Washington State University
study, the fl avor of wine in 13
out of 14 cans changed.
This is because alumi-
num cans disintegrate when
exposed to copper, acid and
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which are in wine. Critics say
the chemical interaction of
wine with aluminum could
also pose a health threat to
consumers.
“Aluminum is not your
friend,” said Stephen Roth-
well, assistant winemaker
at Columbia Crest Winery
in Paterson, Washington.
“It’s the enemy. Stinky and
bad-tasting wines come out
of aluminum.”
But, Rothwell said, con-
sumers keep buying.
“I know it’s surprising, but
people aren’t noticing,” he
said. “Remember these aren’t
wine people like us. They
can’t tell the difference.”
Most winemakers do not
put “produced on” or “best
by” dates on their cans, count-
ing instead on the fact that
canned wines sell quickly,
especially when sold chilled
from retail store coolers.
Some winemakers say
they fear this will bruise trust
in the industry.
“Giving bad wine to inex-
perienced drinkers could
damage the overall indus-
try,” said a Washington wine-
maker who, fearing for his
“Everything goes wrong
when you’re canning,” said
Barton of Vice Canning Inc.
in Wilsonville.
Sparkling canned prod-
ucts, said Barton, need to
be temperature-controlled,
which isn’t easy. He said the
maximum chill level should
be 38 degrees Fahrenheit,
although 32 degrees is ideal.
“The colder, the better,” he
said. “The best one I ever car-
bonated I kept at 25 degrees.”
Keeping cans cold also
helps the aluminum stay rigid.
Another challenge, said
Barton, is maintaining good
seams. The seam on a can
is where the body of the can
and the top meet. Barton said
checking seams carefully is
critical.
Similarly, he said, it’s cru-
cial to check for dinged cans.
A pinhole-sized leak in a sin-
gle can may destroy an entire
package. If the wine leaks
onto other cans and deterio-
rates the packaging, a whole
box may be lost.
Cans also bring out stron-
ger fl avors in the wine.
According to Rothwell, if a
new barrel is used to hold
wine before it’s put in cans,
that new barrel taste, like oak
fl avor, comes out about twice
as strong in canned versus
bottled wine.
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