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Must-Haves Glasses For Holiday Party Season
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by Deirdre Bourdet Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away, and while most people have started planning their menus, most people havent given much thought to rustling up stemware for the hordes of celebrants about to descend. Big gatherings tend to bring out those back-of-the-cupboard wine "goblets," or the ...3 days ago -
Borba, Historical Villages of Vila Viçose and Alandroal, Alentejo
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9:30 a.m. ~ Visit Évora 10:30 a.m. ~ Departure to Borba: visit the winery, taste wines and olive oil 1:30 p.m. ~ Lunch at “A Cadeia” (The Jail Restaurant) 3:30 p.m. ~ Visit the historical villages of Vila Viçosa and Alandroal 8:00 p.m. ~ Dinner at “Fialho,” the most famous restaurant for Alentejo ...1 week ago -
Images of Portugal That Speak One Thousand Words
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Images of a Journey into the Portugese Culture, to better understand their wines
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I’m finally able to get some of my own images onto this blog, but I am still limited with time and resources. Leaving the US and trying to reestablish an office has been a bear, because we’ve also got full days and nights of exploration away from my computer and connectivity. These are images that I’ve ...1 week ago -
Getting It The Old Fashioned Way
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It shouldnt be too difficult to send back a glass or a bottle of wine that your server delivered to your table. After all, if you are worried about what your server will think just keep in mind they are not responsible for the production of the wine so its not likely theyll take offense. But what about when you send ...1 week ago -
Wine Vidcast 4: Two German Rieslings
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German wines are wonderful, but the entire topic can be, well, hard to learn. The ancient looking wine labels, hard-to-pronounce German names (hard for some of us, anyway), and words like “kabinett” or “trockenbeerenauslese” can send the faint-of-heart running toward a bottle of Chardonnay. If this is you, ...1 week ago -
The Choices We Make
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Most people understand the cost of smoking. These costs tend most often to be measured in years taken off a smokers life. For reasons I think you can understand, I prefer not to think of the costs of my 20+ years of smoking in these terms. However, there are ways to appreciate the cost of smoking that not only I but ...1 week ago -
Why Are Americas Wine Wholesalers Giggling?
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“We have a system set up in this country for distribution (of wine) that isdesigned to create accountability and responsibility. Amazon to theircredit tried to abide by the laws that created accountability. Whenthey found out they were unable to do so in a cost effective way, thenthey had to at some point bail out. ...2 weeks ago -
The Wine Of My Dreams
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Dreams. The kind you have when slumbering. I can say without equivocation that one of the effects of having quit smoking so very recently is an enhanced vividness of my nighttime dreams. I know they are vivid because even now, a couple hours after waking up, I can still recall the brand, varietal and vintage of the ...2 weeks ago -
The Coming Taste of Wine
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Over the years there were some people who, upon learning that I was a smoker, became very interested in getting me to quit. When they learned I worked in the wine business, they almost inevitably crafted a "stop smoking argument" that looked like this: "Tom, youre in the wine business and really NEED to be able to ...2 weeks ago -
Wine Tools and Otherwise
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The implements and tools associated with the simple act of drinking wine are so varied and so numerous, youd think it a complicated thing, when in fact, its merely a matter of opening a package, pouring a liquid into a vessel and lifting that vessel to ones lips. A simple corkscrew will do. A glass of any kind will ...2 weeks ago -
Nouveau Sips: Wines to Savor in 2010
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By Courtney Cochran Lets face it: the recession taught us many of things, perhaps the most important: youve got to appreciate the small things in life. And with 2009 drawing to a close, we can all look forward a renewed perspective (not to mention uptrending economic indicators, whew!) in the new year. To go along ...2 weeks ago -
How Not To Do A Walkaround Wine Tasting
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I remember being very, very new to the wine industry. Fresh with a graduate degree and recently hired at a wine PR firm in Santa Rosa called Gracelyn Associates, I knew just enough about wine to get myself in trouble. And of course I did just that. One of the best places for the wine neophyte to get in trouble is at ...3 weeks ago -
Back Room Battle
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By Deirdre Bourdet The film Bottle Shock tells the tale of the 1976 "Judgment of Paris," where California wines beat out their French counterparts in a widely publicized blind tasting. This week in Napa, three local merlots go head to head against three from Bordeaux at Back Room Wines Thursday night tasting ...3 weeks ago -
Top Wine Faults & How To Deal
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By Courtney Cochran Weve all been there before: The wine youve ordered arrives at your table at the chichi restaurant and smells...wrong. Youre not sure whats behind the malodorous scent, but youre quite sure it smacks of your Aunt Ednas moldy attic. Youre desperate to send it back, but nervous the "dirty ...3 weeks ago -
Are you a wine gamer?
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I found out, through twitter, about a new wine related game in the style of Sim City called “ Wine Tycoon ” Wine Tycoon claims you can: Create the vineyard of your dreams in 10 of the most important wine regions of France. Commanding operations from your very own French chateau, ...3 weeks ago -
Wine Vidcast 3: Meritage wines and aging red wines
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A bottle of 1999 wine from Washington State offers up some good lessons on aging your red wines and what a “ meritage ” is (plus how to properly pronounce it!). Enjoy!3 weeks ago -
What effect does oak have on wine?
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Winemakers have been aging wine in oak barrels as long as anyone can remember. California Chardonnays are often described as “oaky.” So what is it with oak and wine, and how does oak affect a wine’s characteristics? There are countless facts that answer these questions. Our friends over at Snooth, however, have ...3 weeks ago -
Food and wine pairing: Seven simple rules
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One of the most frequently asked questions about wine is, “How do I know what wine will go with a specific food.” Fortunately, it’s not as hard as many people think, and Jules Clancy has written a terrific article to share with us. 7 simple rules for food & wine matching success a guest post by Jules ...3 weeks ago -
Men In Leotards Dont Drink Wine...They Whine.
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Dont forget to take the FERMENTATION Survey Click Here To Take a 2-minute Reader Survey ________________________________________ Doesnt THIS fall into the "Thank-You-Lord-For-Making-Me-The-Martyr" category of public relations? Here we have a small, hardworking wine education organization, The Wine ...4 weeks ago
