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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....
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Few wines are as idiosyncratic and storied as Lebanon's Chateau Musar. The story of Musar is a story of determination, inspiration and faith (and no small amount of winemaking expertise). Winemaker Serge Hochar has ushered this wine through 50 vintages and says, "I am here because of war." His story, like his wine, is entrancing, and you will find it here on "Engaging the Senses."
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 MoreA MOVI Feast
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MOVI is a group of winemakers who make it a part of their mission statement to "make wines with passion." This movement of independent vintners taking root in Chile is passionately making some of the best wine on the planet - meet the makers and, virtually at least, taste the wine, in Lyn's most recent post.
Read MoreGoing Nativa
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The French refer to a vine's rootstock as it's pied or "foot," and it takes only the slightest bit of literary license to believe that, like a person, you don't understand a wine until you've walked in its vines' shoes, or at least where the vine puts its "foot." Today, I walk with the vines in the vineyard's of Chilean organic winery Nativa.
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