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On Zinfandel Rosé
Catie over at the Through The Grape Vine blog recently wrote a post on Zinfandel, its presence (or rather lack thereof) in Washington, and the "white zin" phenomenon. (Catie if ...
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Wine: Cavatappi Sangiovese
If soup is anything in America, it is the food of fall. Spring pea soups and late summer tomato consommés are wonderful; real honest stews are something else altogether. In ...
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Wine as Fuel (Literally)
The New York Times has a story about winemakers in France distilling their wines to get ethanol, which is eventually sold to refineries to be turned into gasoline. "It's like ...
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Wine: Dehasa Gago 2003
Just a little bit of purple in this very accessible Spanish red – color? Let’s talk about color first. In the early 20th century the chemist R.M. Willstätter found that ...
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Wine: Coeur d’Alene Cellars Viognier
Apparently Viognier does not read this blog. Not that it should, necessarily, but seriously, the Coeur d'Alene Cellars approach in 2003 was exactly what I was complaining about: the "Idaho ...
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Wine: Hendry Ranch Zinfandel
Zinfandel, I apologize. I've been saying for so long that the tendancy toward high alcohol in your wines is starting to annoy me, but recently I've been proven wrong. Constantino's ...
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Wine: Château Moulin de Bel Air
Flavor, sometimes, lies in wait; it peeks around the corner and casts a shadow into the hallway so that we know it's there yet still too shy to come into ...
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Wine: Domaine André Vatan Sancerre
Love is not enough. We die and are put into the earth forever. We should insist while there is still time. We must eat through the wildness of her sweet ...
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Wine: Domaine Sainte-Eugenie
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know. ~ Titchmarsh, E. C. ...
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Wine: Conde de Valdemar Rioja
"...there are no maps nor disciplines to help us find the duende. We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken glass, that he exhausts, that ...
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