Bottling Gold: Napa Valley, CA & Bordeaux, France
I’ve bought $100 bottles of wine and $10 bottles. Mostly the latter. But to some, $500 for 25.6 ounces of fermented grape juice and yeast is a price well worth…
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Wines In The Movies: Grape Flicks
You think of “Sideways” as one of the top 10 films about wine. Right? I did. But what about “The Grapes of Wrape?” Too arid. “A Walk In The Clouds?”…
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Global Warning: Hot Times Ahead For California Wines
Do you feel that each summer is getting hotter than the one before? Well, global climate experts at the National Academy of Sciences are predicting that California’s $2.9 billion wine…
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Celebrating Wine & Legendary Bottlings: Bordeaux
From Anne at Papilles et Pupilles – mon httpblog, the 6th edition of “Bordeaux fete le vin” (Bordeaux Celebrates Wine) was held last month at the biggest festival in Europe,…
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Wine Fest or Marti Gras? Watkins Glen, NY
I just returned from the Finger Lakes Wine Festival in Watkins Glen, New York, one of the mega events for New York’s fastest growing wine region. After hours of sipping…
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Endlessly Epicurious
Of course there’s more to learn about wine. A tour through Burgundy alone could make you purse your lips and think, perhaps, this is all just too hard. But Epicurious.com’s Wine Lover’s Companion shows us that, well, it is… and that’s okay.
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Cheap Fireworks For The Fourth: Bargain California Wines
Whether you’re grilling beef burgers, turkey burgers, chicken or hot dogs this Fourth of July weekend, you’ll probably wish you had some patriotic domestic wine to go with them. Read…
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Blending French Bordeaux Near The Great Wall of China
Imagine a French vintner from Bordeaux trying to turn a rocky field he called “totally no man’s land” into a winery. Now, imagine that this patch of dirt was subject…
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Welcome to New York’s Wine Hub: Canandaigua, NY
Canandaigua, New York is about as far fetched from Napa Valley as Timbuktu is to Hollywood. The sleepy little town/city, with the charm of a Norman Rockwell painting, is a…
