Wine and Passion
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Thoughts on a lesson about wine from a music class, and how you can improve your expertise by re-becoming a beginner.
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Time for a Wine Holiday
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Springtime holidays are coming up, so it’s a good time to revisit some basics about how wine and food go together, especially since you’ll probably be choosing wine for a group. Here’s a concise exploration of the basics
Read MoreRhône is Where the Heart Is...and More
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No country has as diverse an array of great and classic wines as France, so I’m particularly happy to announce a new wine course that explores the wines of France in depth. Read all about it right here!
Read MoreBud Break and Heartbreak
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Does vintage really matter in an age when technology helps winemakers produce good wine every year? It does when the winemaker gets no grapes, and that may be the result for many after a week of devastating frost in Europe.
Read MoreWe have nothing to hide
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What can we learn from the announcement that Bordeaux' Château Beychevelle is constructing a new visitor-friendly winery? Perhaps the French are catching up to North America....
Read MoreThe Alchemy of Time and Place
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New Zealand's iconic winery Craggy Range sent out their Dynamic Duo of viticulturalist Steve Smith, MW and chief winemaker Matt Stafford to bang the drum for 2013, "the vintage of a generation" according to Smith. Was it really that good? Oh yes, it was...it is.
Read MoreMy dinner with Philippine
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Baroness Philippine de Rothschild, one of the leading figures in French wine, passed away August 23 at age 80. I remember her from many glittery events, but most of all from one decidedly informal evening - dinner in my home with no Mouton Rothschild and an unlikely star.
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