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• Private Tasting: Vineyard-Designated Washington Red Blends

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  Oftentimes, wineries in the United States produce blends from their leftovers. They put their best grapes into their varietal wines and then produce a blend from the grapes that don’t quite make the cut. There are some wineries, however, who strive to produce Bordeaux-style blends using the very best grapes that ...
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• What’s a Non Profit Wine Group to Do? Thoughts From an Executive Director

  
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  Weekly Holidaze Drawing : Just leave a comment on any wine-blog entry this month, to win gifts th is December: As I read a wine writer’s newsletter with a story from a guest commentator, it really got me thinking… It was a story about how many wine groups there are, and it came from an outsider… not ...
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• Great Washington State Wine Available in Houston

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  For years, I’ve had friends tell me that they can’t find the great Washington State wines that I tell them about where they live. So with the help of Wine-Searcher.com and a lot of legwork, I’ve set out on a mission to prove them wrong. This is the fourth in a series of posts to help you find great Washington ...
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• A Wine for Tonight: NV Gruet Brut Sparkling Wine

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  Would you like a quick suggestion for a good wine to drink tonight (or this weekend) that won’t break your budget and is widely available? Many of our readers have said this is something they would like, so here is this week’s selection, the NV Gruet Brut Sparkling Wine from New Mexico. Our selection criteria ...
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• Why do some food writers equate wine and pot?

  
  Dr Vino's wine blog — Authority: 492
  In “The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World,” Michael Pollan traces the relationship of humans and four plants: the apple, the tulip, cannabis, and the potato. When watching the new PBS documentary based on the book, I was surprised to hear Pollan compare pot and wine. To the tape: Though ...
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• Fielding Hills Cabernet Sauvignon Vertical Tasting

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  For those of you who are not familiar with a vertical tasting, it is a tasting in which you taste different vintages of the same wine from the same winery. We were first “wow”-ed by Fielding Hills in the summer of 2008 . Since then, we have visited the winery, tasted all of their new releases, and even helped ...
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• Nothing says party time like Caber-NETT! [video]

  
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• Private Tasting: Saviah Cellars Syrah

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  Saviah Cellars is a family-owned winery located south of downtown Walla Walla, Washington, near the Oregon state line. Founded in 2000 by winemaker Rich Funk and his wife Anita, Saviah Cellars currently produces about 9,500 cases per year. The name Saviah is a family name from Anita’s great-grandmother. Rich is a ...
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• The Party Crashers’ winery, 36 million bottles, $30k for KJ – sipped and spit

  
  Dr Vino's wine blog — Authority: 492
  SPIT: invitations. SPIT: glassware All the talk this long weekend was about the White House state dinner. And perhaps to the surprise of wine lovers, it wasn’t about the two typos and at least one disastrous food-wine pairing on the menu ! Instead, it was about the “party crashers,” Tareq and Michaele Salahi, ...
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• Top Washington Cab Showdown: 2005 Columbia Crest Reserve vs. Quilceda Creek

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  Last week, to celebrate Dad’s (John’s) birthday, we had what turned out to be a Washington Cabernet Sauvignon showdown in one of our double blind private tasting dinners featuring two highly-acclaimed wines from the 2005 vintage, the 2005 Columbia Crest Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and the 2005 Quilceda Creek ...
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• Thanksgiving wines from the Twitterverse…and cellartracker

  
  Dr Vino's wine blog — Authority: 492
  A few sips form the twitterverse: jmolesworth1 : Counting the empties: 2x NV Krug, mag ‘98 Paul Autard CdP Côte Rônde, ‘97 Montelena Estate Cab. ‘92 Dalla Valle Cab, ‘89 Ridge Monte Bello MemMW : Good God- 1907 Blandy’s Bual opened 4 wks ago. Simply Transcendant. Beyond Leroy, beyond Krug. Talk about ...
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• Wily Jack Wines: Great Values to go along with Clever Packaging

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  Wily Jack Wines , produced by Diageo Chateau & Estate Wines, launched nationally in October with three varietals including Zinfandel, Chardonnay, and Cabernet Sauvignon. They are all fruit-driven wines from California vineyards with a suggested retail price of $8. Their wines, each with a slightly different ...
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• Soos Creek and Quilceda Creek: A Contrast in Customer Service

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  Soos Creek and Quilceda Creek wineries have “creek” in common in their names, but a huge “gulf” separates them. And it’s not so much in the quality of their wines as in their approach to customer service. I’ve purchased and enjoyed several of Soos Creek’s wines, so I was excited to receive an invitation ...
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• Green curry prawns – an “impossible” pairing from the White House state dinner

  
  Dr Vino's wine blog — Authority: 492
  Right now, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Dr. Manmohan Singh, prime minister of India, is being feted at a state dinner! The Obamas brought in chef Marcus Samuelsson of Aquavit in New York to cook a meatless, Indian-inspired meal for the 320 honored guests. (Get full details at nytimes.com ) In a toast, the President ...
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• Poetry slam: wine education for kids [giveaway]

  
  Dr Vino's wine blog — Authority: 492
  In our recent discussion of wine education for kids , two readers thoughtfully provided translations of an Italian rhyming verse (”Filastrocca del vino”) that is used in some Italian elementary schools. But we can’t let the Italians have all the fun! You are hereby challenged to come up with some sort ...
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• New Discoveries in Woodinville Wine Country

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  Woodinville has definitely become a must-visit destination in Washington wine country. Home of the state’s oldest, largest, and most well-known wineries, Chateau Ste. Michelle and Columbia Winery, the Woodinville area is also home to over 40 wineries and tasting rooms, with new ones opening all the time. Woodinville ...
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• Spotlight On: Otis Kenyon

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  Otis Kenyon is a small, family-owned and operated winery in Walla Walla, Washington. Founded in 2004 by Stephen Otis Kenyon and his wife Deborah Dunbar, Otis Kenyon currently produces 2,500 cases per year. We were first introduced to Otis Kenyon wines at a tasting at Pete’s Wine Shop in Bellevue last year . Since ...
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• Wine Peeps: Leading the Coverage of Washington State Wines (continued)

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  Last Friday, I shared with you my analysis of our Wine Peeps coverage of Washington State wines as compared to the three major print publications . To recap: According to statistics cited by Sean Sullivan on his Washington Wine Report and a tally of our reviews on this blog, we at Wine Peeps review more Washington ...
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• Wine Blogging Wednesday #63: Find Your Muse

  
  Wine Peeps — Authority: 422
  Our host for the November edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, the blogosphere’s monthly virtual wine tasting event, is Rob Bralow of Wine Post . He selected Find Your Muse as this month’s theme. While giving us lots of room to maneuver in “finding our muse,” he did lay down a few guidelines which included ...
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• Wine education: Italy and US compared [pictures]

  
  Dr Vino's wine blog — Authority: 492
  I recently posted about a pamphlet that our six-year-old son brought home from school equating wine and pot . A friend living in the Veneto, Italy writes in with this comparison: I thought I would share the work that our son brought home from his Montessori pre-school today: filastrocca del vino. A page of ...
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