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Continue reading →: Artisanal Bells Up WineryYesterday I had the pleasure of listening to a webinar sponsored by the French Wine Society featuring veteran Champagne expert Peter Liem. The subject was grower Champagne. I was most struck by Liem’s frankness, advising us not to be allured blindly by the market buzz of grower bubbly because it is…
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Continue reading →: Wine “Rock Stars” Headline International Wine FestivalGina Gallo and Jean-Charles Boisset are inarguably the best known wine couple in the world. Their stories, separately and together, are inspiring and magical. As a very private couple who are parents of young twin daughters, they rarely appear together at public events. So it is truly special that they…
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Continue reading →: Contains SulfitesConsumer warning: this is a lengthy article debunking the myths and legends of sulfites. Let me cut to the chase and provide dessert before the entrée: unless you are asthmatic or one of the 1% club of people who have a bone fide sulfite allergy, it is highly unlikely that…
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Continue reading →: Washington Wine VanguardsA lively session at the 2014 Symposium for Professional Wine Writers, hosted by Jon Bonne and Eric Asimov, inspired a maelstrom of chatter on social media and a verbal boxing match. The session frame was simple and elegant: introduce writers to California winemakers who are experimenting in a “back to…
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Continue reading →: Paso Robles PossibilitiesWith 30 years of robust history most often credited to entrepreneur Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon, Rhone Rangers are firmly fixed on the California wine landscape. Since 1983, the winemakers of Paso Robles and York Mountain AVAs have played a significant role in shaping the future of Rhone varieties in…
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Continue reading →: Domaine Michel Lafarge, VolnayFinding Domaine Lafarge started off as an uncertain conquest! The charming village of Volnay is quite hilly with narrow winding streets. As if the natural challenge of finding rue de la Combe wasn’t enough, it turned out that the street was undergoing major road repair. After seeking guidance from two…
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Continue reading →: Feast of Saint Vincent, Clos de Tart & Domaine Taupenot-MermeEach year in January, 80 wine villages throughout Burgundy celebrate the feast of Saint Vincent as the guardian of winemakers. While the officially designated feast date is January 22, many wine villages organize elaborate festivals around that date honoring the 20th century tradition of the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin.…
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Continue reading →: Casa Dumetz Wines. Lean and Lively. Emilio and Sonja.This is a great story. It would make a fabulous movie. Talented actor, director and writer meets beautiful woman working part-time in a florist shop while finishing a masters’ thesis in journalism. She: in love with the idea of wine and helping to revive fallow vineyards in her family’s native…
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Continue reading →: Londolozi LollapaloozaToday was the final day of my amazing holiday in South Africa with Lee and Sue Flischel. I left Londolozi, the magical game reserve property in the Sabi Sands area of Kruger National Park, quite reluctantly. Truly, this is one of the most magnificent places I have ever visited. I’ve…
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Continue reading →: Cape Winelands Sampler: Stellenbosch, Franschoek and PaarlIt’s a remarkably short drive from Cape Town to the key production areas of the “Cape Winelands,” a term used fondly to encompass the eleven compact regions where wine is grown on “farms” (not vineyards). To give this a U.S. perspective, it takes much less time to get from Cape…
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