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Wine of the Day, No. 424
It seems as if the weather is slightly cooler across the United States of America today, though showery in some areas and even thundery in others. Still, it’s probably a good day for cooking a steak or...
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Wine of the Day, No. 432
It’s always salutary to learn something new. For example, I recently tried this wine, the Alois Lageder “Fórra” Manzoni Bianco 2016, made from a grape I had never heard of. Manzoni bianco is a cross of...
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Wine of the Day, No. 472
Of course a pinor noir wine made from grapes grown at 1,400-feet elevation in the cool-climate Italian region of Alto Adige-Sudtirol will not much resemble pinot noirs originating in Burgundy or...
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Weekend Wine Notes: 12 Excellent Wines
_______________________________________________________________________ The theme today is excellence in diversity. The wines — five red, five white and two pink — illustrate the notion that great...
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Shades of Pinot: Blanc, Gris, Noir
It’s often surprising how grapes are related to each other or how they derive from unexpected sources. The parents of Bordeaux’s great cabernet sauvignon grape, for example, were, it was ascertained...
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Three Scintillating White Wines from Alois Lageder
Founded in 1823, this distinguished producer in Italy’s northeast region is now operated by the family’s fifth and sixth generations. The vineyards of the Alois Lageder estate are farmed on biodynamic...
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50 Great Wines of 2020
_____________________________________________________________ This annual post looks back at all the wines I wrote about in the previous year and singles out 50 that I thought were great wines....
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35 Great Wine Bargains of 2020
Do you ever sip a wine without knowing what the price is and when you find out that it costs, say, $14, you cry, “Wow, I would have paid twice as much!” That’s what I mean by “Great Wine Bargains,”...
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Weekend Wine Notes — 15 Savory Whites
During the seasons of Spring and Summer, our tendencies in white wine may lean toward fresh, light, delicate and quaffable. Now that Fall is upon us, perhaps we’re thinking more of savory,...
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35 Great Wine Bargains of 2021, $20 and Under
It’s all very well to laud and praise the Big Deal Wines, the High-Performance Bottles, the Show Pieces of the Vinous Realms. Many of them are worthy of adulation. Are they worth the prices they often...
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