ARTICLES
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Here’s A Lie: Wine Critics Offer Everyone The Best Wine Picks
Two weeks ago in my Playboy.com Wined Down column, I interviewed two friends for whom I have mad respect – wine writers and educators Mark Oldman and Leslie Sbrocco – to put together a list of what we considered the…
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Wine Reviews: Weekly Mini Round-Up For August 20, 2012
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…
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Weekly Wine Quiz: Hold Your Nose!
Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz, peoples. Based on feedback from ever-so-vocal-and-intelligent peeps like you, I supply the quiz question each week, but do *not* supply the quiz answer directly in the post. That’s because YOU are supposed to supply…
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Old House, Old Vines, New Styles (Tasting Izadi Recent Releases In Rioja)
To get a feel for how important the culture of the vine is in the tiny and picturesque hilltop town of Villabuena in Rioja Alavesa, consider this: Villabuena has roughly 317 inhabitants, and just over ten percent of them (about…
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