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The bling of Christmas past: Beaute du Siecle Coganc
Filed under: Bling

With little new wine bling rolling out for this holiday season, I had a brief encounter with the bling of Christmas past. No, it wasn’t the $10k white gold Dom ...

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Posted 20 hours ago by Dr. Vino
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Signed copies of my books available for gifting!
Filed under: books, wine gifts

Dear Dr. Vino, My parents live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are huge wine connoisseurs. I would like to give them a copy of “Wine Politics” for the ...

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Posted 2 days 3 hours ago by Dr. Vino
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Thanksgiving wines - what was on your table?
Filed under: American wine

After so many suggestions in magazines, food and dining sections about which wines should be on your table, and probably a fair amount of going back and forth, which wines ...

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Posted 3 days 3 hours ago by Dr. Vino
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Impossible food wine pairing: leftover turkey sandwich!
Filed under: food and wine

Now that you’ve worked out of your calorie overload torpor from yesterday, it’s on to the mall! Oh wait, we’ll leave that part for you. We’re concerned about your lunch ...

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Posted 4 days 12 hours ago by Dr. Vino
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Barbera, two ways: Conterno and Sandrone
Filed under: wine picks

Barbera is one of the most food friendly red grapes since it can have wonderful red and black fruit aromas, invigorating acidity and lightness in tannin. Sandwiched between the “lesser” ...

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Posted 6 days 10 hours ago by Dr. Vino
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Many a slip twixt the plastic cup and the lip
Filed under: wine travel

Friend of the blog and leading travel blogger Mark Ashley sent in this photo from his flight to Munich last week: yes, he ordered the infamous Rich prosecco in a ...

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Posted 7 days ago by Dr. Vino
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The white muscat of the red stone, barberesco, Bull’s blood
Filed under: wine classes

The most recent session of my six-week introductory wine class at NYU wrapped up last week. We like to end the class in style: a giant edition of show and ...

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Posted 8 days ago by Dr. Vino
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Winespeak: scores, music and Brazilians
Filed under: French wine, winespeak

Eric Asimov had a thoughtful column on Wednesday . If you didn’t get a chance to see it, he interviews a leading violinist and discusses, among other things, the difficulty ...

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Posted 11 days ago by Dr. Vino
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Cru Beaujolais: some factoids
Filed under: French wine, wine picks

A few quick things about cru Beaujolais, the smaller, distinctive growing areas of Beaujolais. 1. The Burgundy producers are coming! Prices are relatively low for grapes and real estate. That ...

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Posted 12 days ago by Dr. Vino
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Winespeak: The opposite of sweet is dry
Filed under: winespeak

It’s pretty easy to call a wine sweet: it has a perceptible level of residual sugar in it (five grams of residual sugar is often considered the threshold of perception). ...

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Posted 14 days ago by Dr. Vino
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