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Do You Take Wine Notes? (Giveaway! 33 Bottles of Wine Pocket Notebook Edition)
Well… do ya? We’ve got another nifty giveaway this week (this time courtesy of Scout Books) to help stimulate some stimulating conversation about taking detailed wine tasting notes. The thing is, I don’t do it. I know. I suck. Seriously,…
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Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2010-04-24
08 Alamos Chardonnay (Mendoza): Things may get too tropical, toasty, or sweet for you, but things will *definitely* get interesting. $13 B- # 05 Snows Lake “Two” (Lake County): CS/CF blend layered w/ berry, spices, cocoa, it’s like the whole…
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A Tale of Three Oh-Fives
As in, three 2005s, or 3 different wines all from the 2005 vintage. Other than their harvest year, they’ve got little in common apart from the fact that I tasted all three as samples over the last week or so,…
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In Plain Sight (Uncovering Wes Walker’s “Hidden Napa Valley”)
The first thing that you think (if you’re me, anyway) about the late Wes Walker’s Hidden Napa Valley ($19.95 from Welcome Books, I received an advanced sample copy of the newly updated edition) is how unexpectedly small it is. At…








