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We Told You So (Wine Media’s Day of Reckoning Is Here, and Can We Fix It?)
“I know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to fail nonetheless… Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it’s here.” — Thanos, Avengers: Infinity War I once described…
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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for July 29, 2024
2019 Fattoria La Massa ‘Giorgio Primo’ (Toscana): Whoooooa. Let’s do more than justa little ‘mini’ for this blockbuster. Excellence is immediately apparent on the nose, with juicy red currants, plums, graphite, dried sage, cinnamon, cocoa, & vanilla. The palate is…
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Pokémon Power, Aussie Style (Fowles Victoria Recent Releases)
Welcome to the third installment of my three-parter on the wines of Austraila’s Victoria region (if you missed them, catch up on Part 1 and Part 2). Today, I’m featuring one of Victoria’s hundreds of family-run producers, Fowles Wine. In…
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Family Matters (Victoria Wines, Part 2)
Welcome to Part 2 (you can check out Part 1 here) of my 3-parter feature on the wines of Victoria, Australia—an area rich in small animals that can quickly kill you (like the box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, and redback spider……
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