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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2009-09-05
87 Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia (Tuscany): Cannonball shot of dark fruit awesomeness to your gut. Exit wound leaves huge hole in your wallet. # 08 Domaine Tempier Rosé (Bandol): A strawberry patch surrounded by a spice garden, with an olive…
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Wine Competitions vs. Really Bad Science (or “The Journal of Wine Economics Drops the Cork. Again.”)
I’ve always had a bit of a mixed reaction to the reports published by the Journal of Wine Economics. On the one hand, I love the fact that serious statistical attention is being given to topics like wine awards, in…
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An Average Wine Dude vs. Chateau d’Yquem
“…like a Viennese waltz in my mouth…” Thus read the words of CellarTracker.com member Kdawg, in his (her?) New Year’s Eve 2007 tasting note of a 1995 Château d’Yquem. For those who don’t yet know about CellarTracker, it’s a veritable…
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The Art of Random Wine Tasting (Visiting Whole Foods’ VA Wine Tasting Room)
Today we’ll be talking about listening to entire rock albums vs. individual MP3 song downloads, wine preservation systems, on-line store boycotts, Jenga, and Mozart. Yeah, I know – how do I get myself into these messes, right? Let’s start with…
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