Happy New Year! After a longer than expected hiatus, we are back. The end of the vacation from the blog (and things like work) is prompted by: a. real life schedule and b. Corie Brown's article on Mendoza and Paul Hobbs in this Sunday's LA Times.  As life is not ...

Guest columnist Richard Olsen-Harbich of Long Island's North Fork winery Raphael has a great piece on the importance of location -- everywhere around the world -- at the always interesting Lenndevours. As he says: Remember a merlot grape -- the same merlot grape -- grown in upstate New York or ...

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Posted by JFO: That's just lovely. Well, there's a few wineries I can cross off my list. No short and curlies in the vats for me.

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The inaugural release of a limited edition wine - the 2005 Oakville Cuvee - is a collaboration of the Oakville Winegrowers. Many wineries and growers in the 60-member group contributed 5-gallon donations of just-pressed juice, which winemaker Heidi Peterson...

The inaugural release of a limited edition wine - the 2005 Oakville Cuvee - is a collaboration of the Oakville Winegrowers. Many wineries and growers in the 60-member group contributed 5-gallon donations of just-pressed juice, which winemaker Heidi Peterson...

Forum: Wine Talk Posted By: Wes Hagen Post Time: 05-25-2007 at 04:12 PM

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