December 2010
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Not Quite Readers’ Choice: Top Ten Articles of 2010
As New Year’s Eve approaches, we are greeted with the familiar sights of fireworks, the sounds of annoying Vuvuzela-like party favors, and the coming of cheesy year-end recap. posts! So today, we’re not ranking wines, but articles. I had fun pulling together the 2009 recap.…
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Learning About Wine Writing the Easy Way (2011 Professional Wine Writers Symposium in Napa)
I’m kind of like a bad debt that you cannot pay. I just keep coming back… And in February, the crime scene to which I’ll be returning is the lovely Meadowood in Napa Valley, where I’ll be a panelist at the 2011 Symposium for Professional…
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The Great Red Hope: Portugal Bets On Touriga Nacional, But Is It A Winning Hand?
The first thing that you need to know about the recently-awarded Top 10 Touriga Nacional wines from Portugal is that there area actually 12 of them. Such is the strangeness of Portuguese wine politics that a contest selecting the top ten single-varietal bottlings of Touriga…
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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up for 2010-25-12
07 Draconis French Oak Zinfandel (Lodi): Helping heapings of prune, spice, focused dark fruit and thorough deliciousness. $25 B+ # 08 St. Urbans-Hof Riesling (Mosel): Lime & acid to go the distance (prob. several yrs) but might not be too complex when it gets there…
