Virginia Wine Experience

• March 2013

  My family and I are brand new to wines, having bought a couple of books and deciding to make a bit of an adventure out of this. We live in a smallish town and haven't been able to find a good local wine shop, so we sort of started in our grocery stores. It's been a bit overwhelming, a bit expensive, and finally kind of frustrating trying to find... Read More

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• June 2012

  Hi all,This generous group was so helpful during a previous post of mine about recommendations for my four-day trip to Sonoma this August that I'm taking advantage of that generosity again.I have a week off work this November 11-18, 2012, and am having so much fun planning the Sonoma trip that I'm tempted to do another wine-oriented trip.  On to... Read More

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• September 2011

  I taste a lot of wine, both for work and pleasure.  I would like to get better at it, but I don't know how.   While I am able to pick out varietals, and often, even regions, pretty accurately, I want more than that. I want to be able to pick out all of the wine's nuances, both on the nose and on the palate.  Often when I am tasting I find that o... Read More

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• August 2011

  Beaulieu Vinyards Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 $89.97, bought July, 2010.I've been drinking wine for oh, maybe 43 years now, starting when I was in college with such relatively undrinkable treats as T-Bird, Yago San'gria and Boone's Farm Apple Wine, which often as not had turned to formaldehyde by the time we plunked... Read More

  From the article Pretending to be proper wine snobs

  
  

• July 2011

  Anyone have any wineries in North Carolina, or wines by name, that I should check out while down there later next month? Read More

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• July 2011

  Hello everyone, and greatings from California. I have only recently staring to drink wine within the last 6 months or so, as i had always been more of a beer and spirits kind of guy. Due to this i'm still tring to find out what styles I like and ones I don't. As my wallet has more moths then bills in it I tend to by wine that is in the $10 or le... Read More

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• July 2011

  As many of you know I was recently at the North American Wine Blogger's Conference in Charlottesville Va. I met many passionate and enthusiastic folks there and had a blast. I'm going to try and get some of them to come over this way for a guest blogging stint, I'll hopefully be invited to do the same.I was wondering if any of you folks wanted t... Read More

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• July 2011

  Hi All,   I have a few thoughts/questions that I would appreciate comments on. I have been some-what seriously drinking wine for about eight years now. I am 61 years old and before the "wine enlightenment", drank mostly micro-brewery and other not so chic types of beer. Every year now for the past four, I have held a blind tasting of different r... Read More

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• February 2011

  G'day.I'm an Australian currently working in a vineyard in France and thinking of moving to the US later this year to start my studies in wine making/viticulture.Can anyone recommend any descent universities around California or wherever that offer Wine Making/Viticultural courses?Cheers,Simon Read More

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• November 2010

  DrinksterNot only wine lovers, but cartoon lovers, will appreciate this site, run by respected Australian wine critic Philip White and featuring the striking work of award-winning South Australian cartoonist George Grainger Aldridge. Here, White investigates how a diverse range of issues, such as sustainability, geology, logistics, and taxes, af... Read More

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