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| Vino 101: Thinking Out of the Box |
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| People want to have fun when they go out to dinner. Jorge Eduardo Castillo suggests some creative ways to provide his guests an unexpectedly fun experience. |
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| Bucko's Wine Reports: 100 new wines |
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| With warm spring and summer days around the corner, our attention turns to crisp white wines and friendly reds. Randy "Bucko" Buckner reports on wines from $6 to $105, sure to fit any occasion and pocketbook.
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| 30 Second Wine Advisor: The World of Wine in 2058 |
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| Fifty years ago, German, fortified and sweet wines were the top sellers. Now a fine British wine retailer gazes into the crystal ball and makes predictions for 2058. |
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| 30 Second Wine Advisor: Fine, affordable Malbec |
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| Luigi Bosca 2006 "La Linda" Lujan de Cuyo Mendoza Malbec shows fruit-forward black and red cherries in a well-structured Argentine Malbec, a fine $10 value. |
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| 30 Second Wine Advisor: Bits and pieces |
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| Today for a change of pace, let's divide the Wine Advisor into three brief topics: Suggestibility in wine tasting, affordable Burgundy, and another wine-price poll. |
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| Wine Reports: Henri Perrusset 2006 Mâcon-Villages ($12.99) |
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| Simple fruit and subtle minerality are well balanced with mouth-watering acidity in this affordable White Burgundy. |
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| WebWineMan: Oysters on Parade! |
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| Stock up on Sauvignon Blanc. This favorite spring and summer quaffing wine make a perfect "slap-in-the-face" aperitif and a classic match for oysters on the half-shell. |
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| WineBlueBook: Wines compared by score and price |
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| This month's issue of WineBlueBook covers many Red Burgundy and Bordeaux wines that were scored last month by the wine critics. A total of 677 wines are profiled in the April 2008 issue.
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| Wine Reports: Frédéric Magnien 2005 Bourgogne Pinot Noir ($22) |
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| Appetizing black-cherry fruit laced up with fresh acidity and an edge of tannins. |
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| Wine Advisor FoodLetter: Pork chops Liegoise |
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| We follow up on last week's nostalgia session with another Belgian-inspired dish from another favorite 1970s cookbook. |
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| Wine Reports: Mas de Gourgonnier 2005 Les Baux de Provence ($12.99) |
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| Earthy, rustic, balanced and food-friendly, this vintage continues Gourgonnier's long tradition of excellence at a very reasonable price. |
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| Wine Reports: Château Saint Martin de la Garrigue 2005 Coteaux du Languedoc Blanc ($9.99) |
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| Subtle flavors and sharp acidity work particularly well with seafood, fish and vegetarian fare. |
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| Italian Wine Guide: 2004 Vinitaly 2008 |
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| Tom Hyland is back from VinItaly, the massive wine fair held each year in early April in Verona. He tasted more than 250 wines during five days at the fair, and reports on a number of the best. |
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| Wine Reports: Le Pavillon du Château Beauchêne 2006 Côtes du Rhône Rosé ($9.99) |
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| Crisp and dry, fresh strawberry aromas and flavors, well structured by tart, quenching acidity. |
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| Wine Reports: Hayman & Hill 2006 "Interchange" Santa Barbara County "Reserve No. 22" White Blend ($12.99) |
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| Fresh pineapple aroma, clean and true, like cutting into a ripe, juicy fruit. |
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| Wine Reports: Domaine André Brunel 2005 Vin de Pays de Vaucluse Grenache ($10) |
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| Illustrating today's premise, this simple, affordable Southern French red offers a good demonstration of well-made Grenache. |
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| Oxford Town Wines: Serious health stuff |
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| A common tactic of the anti-alcohol faction is to cloak their agenda in grossly misrepresented research data, seeking to scare people into accepting their arguments. John Juergens demolishes a few of the anti-alcohol myths. |
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| Wine Reports: Fratelli Pala 2006 "Crabilis" Vermentino di Sardegna ($13) |
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| Full, almost opulent fruit is shaped by a firm acidic structure in a versatile, food-friendly white. |
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| Wine Reports: José Maria da Fonseca 2007 "Twin Vines" Vinho Verde ($9) |
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| Fresh, crisp and quenching, made to go with shellfish; low alcohol makes it a quaffable aperitif for spring and summer. |
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| Dibbern on Wine: South African Wine Tasting |
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| Donald A. Dibbern Jr., back from South Africa, offers extensive tasting notes for a wide variety of recent releases from most of the country's major wine regions. |
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| Schaefer on Wine: Hot bargains from seaside Chile |
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| Veramonte Winery in Chile's Casablanca Valley was founded in 1990 and built the winery in 1998; the vineyard land previously was either fallow or used for cattle grazing. Veramonte has become the Chilean poster boy for over-achievement, both in terms of offering quality wine and good value. |
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| From Amazon.com: Hugh Johnson's 2008 Pocket Wine Book |
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| If there's one indispensible reference for the wine lover, it's Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book. Updated annually, the 2008 edition is now available. This handy guide packs an incredible amount of information into a pocket-size volume. |
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| For The Love of Port: Roy's 2004 Port Wine Forecast |
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| The trend toward more frequent releases of "second label" Vintage Port seems here to stay, says Port expert Roy Hersh, who offers this extensive report on the Vintage Ports of 2004. |
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| Randy's World of Wine: Secrets of Harvests Past |
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| The old, worn wooden trugs that laborers once used to haul in grapes at harvest have been replaced by plastic bins, but these antique vineyard tools still whisper the secrets of times gone by. |
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| Dave McIntyre's WineLine: Plus ça Change, at Lagrange |
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| Change can be revolutionary or evolutionary, and Château Lagrange has experienced both in a generation. Dave McIntyre reports on the resurgence of this storied property under corporate management by Suntory. |
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| Our Wine Videos: Sights and sounds of Vinitaly! |
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| More than 150,000 visitors attend Vinitaly during its five-day run in Verona. In these live videos, Robin Garr captures the sights and sounds of the event, and gives us a glimpse into a day's work for a wine judge. |
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| April on Wine: Blending in! |
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| Some time ago, especially in the United States, consumers began to believe that wines made from more than one grape were inferior to single-grape wines. It's time to reconsider, says April Eichmeier, arguing that some of the greatest wines on the planet are blends. |
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| Burghound.com Selection of the Week |
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| In this free sample from Allen "Burghound" Meadows's fully searchable database of Burgundy tasting notes, this feature on WineLoversPage.com will display a new report on a "top value" Burgundy every week. |
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| Favorite Wine Links: Wine Grape Varietal Table |
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| Here's a direct link to Steve De Long's delightfully geeky new wine-grape chart, a must-have gift for the serious wine hobbyist on your list. |
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