wine review
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Mail Order Bride, Mail Order Vines (Plaisance Ranch Recent Releases)
The third Joe Ginet is a bit of a torch-bearer. He and wife Suzi preside over Plaisance Ranch, a former dairy farm, now turned organic beef cattle ranch, which also happens to be a twenty-acre vine nursery (now with over twenty varieties), and (since 1999)…
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Not-So-Hidden Tuscany (Spotlight On Orcia)
[ Editor’s note: here’s one more from the vault of pieces sent to a magazine that didbn’t publish it or pay me; I’m running it here so that it’s not lost to posterity. Enjoy! ] Not-So-Hidden Tuscany One of Tuscany’s most dynamic – and endangered…
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Northern Spain’s “Small California” (Spotlight On Somontano)
[ Editor’s note: Following is a piece that a wrote for a magazine, but after waiting over a year for them to publish it and pay me, I’m giving up and putting it here so that it can see the light of day and you…
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No Bullsh*t Wine (Cowhorn Vineyard Recent Releases)
One could be forgiven for expecting an overdose of “yes, I did in fact write those checks” bullsh*t when visiting Cowhorn Vineyard & Garden in Oregon’s Applegate Valley, based solely on the facts that a) it takes its name from the most infamous preparation (#500,…
