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Dance On A Volcano: Grapegrowing At The Edge Of Time At Clos de los Siete
“This…. this was all vineyards of Malbec…” They say the Italian influence runs strong in Argentina, and nowhere does it look stronger than in the face of our driver, Carlos Tizio Mayer – Plump, Roman-nosed and topped with a wavy…
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Is It Time For Wine To Get The Like Button?
We wine geeks review wines in all manner of differing ways. There’s nearly as much variety in those review systems as there are in wine styles. Points. Stars. In my case, grades and badges. And we’re social about it, too…
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The PLCB’s Version Of “Innovation” (or “God Help Me, I’m A Wine Lover Living In PA!”)
The recent news of perpetually-hip grocery company Wegman’s pulling out of the troubled PA Liquor Control Board’s wine kiosk program has caused a bit of a stir in the wine world, if we take “stir” to mean “mostly sardonic snickering,…
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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini Reviews Round-Up For July 2, 2011
Uhm, like what is this stuff? I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine sample tasting notes via twitter (limited to 140 characters). They are meant to be…
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