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Weekly Wine Quiz: A Cepage By Any Other Name…
Our next round of quizzes will focus on cepages, or wine grape varieties, and the various aliases by which they are known throughout the world. For our first cepage synonym,…
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2009 Bordeaux To Wine World: “Surprise! We’re Overpriced!” (Thoughts From The Union des Grand Crus NYC Tasting)
This is how I imagine many top-tier Bordeaux Chateaux owners end their day: They put down their small glasses of aged Sauturnes (which have been chilled by Winter fairies blowing…
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Meet Playboy.com’s New Dot Com Wine Dude
Yep. Really. I’m crazy excited to tell you that I will soon be authoring a freelance wine column on Playboy.com. So now you have some legitimacy behind the “I’m just…
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Joan of Arc, Jules Verne And Vouvray (At The Salon des Vins de Loire)
This week, I’m in the historic-but-tourist-friendly French wine region of the Loire, on a press trip attending the the 2012 Salon des Vines de Loire. This annual vinous showcase in…