March 2017
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Essential Non-Rocket Science (Wine Product Roundup For March 2017)
In wrapping up March, it’s time for me to round up some of the wine product samples that are sent to me (the kind that usually aren’t physically digestible) for the month. And today, I’d like to highlight two very recent wine book releases that…
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Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For March 27, 2017
So, like, what is this stuff, anyway? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes with you via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant…
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Puzzle Pieces (Exploring The Quality Pyramid At MyNameIsBarbera.com)
One of the more endearingly maddening things about European wine classifications is that they try to lump location, in aspects that are increasingly specific, and “quality,” in ways that are often nebulous. Over at MyNameIsBarbera.com, I take this dichotomy head-on, in my dime-store-philosphical way (not…
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Friends Of The Devil (Concha y Toro Premium Recent Releases)
Ostensibly, vinous Chilean powerhouse Concha y Toro is a budget-minded wine lover’s dream. With five major facilities across the county, and twenty million cases produced annually, they have pretty much nailed the tasty-and-clean-and-varietally-correct-juice-for-very-low-prices thing. But this is me, so of course we’re not going to…
