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Some more special Slovenian (Slovene) wine in the USA: Batičs' Cabernet Franc - also on snooth; barrique Cab Fr with great aromas and rich full body. Batičs' Pinot Gris - Macertaed and wood treated wine with powerfull...

To GregT: I will poste a short "introductory post" soon. Hopefully next week, with some stats about Slovenia as a wine country. p.s.: the answer to the first question is yes. I own the largest wine shop in the capital -...

Two Chefs Compare Notes One's a little country, one's a little big city. I’ve read a lot of cookbooks in my life. Some are indispensible reference works, some are entirely dispensable regifts, and...

Yoshi - Tempranillo is a grape. Rioja the region. Many producers in Europe identify wine by region instead of by the grape varieties that are in the wine. For example, some regions that start with B are: Bordeaux,...

Some more cool (or not) names for wineries. Marketing is a bizarre menagerie of a science that seems to blur borders between flora and fauna. Also seems like frogs are one of the more popular critters, so maybe I'm in the...

Andrzej Lipinski: One of Canada's Pioneering Winemakers One question that often arises in the wine world is: “Where did your love affair with wine begin.” For me the answer was in a glass of 2006 Foreign Affair...

I try to drink something new all the time, but have noticed that I am exceptionally fond of white burgundy and German riesling. These two types of wine match very well with my taste: fresh, dry, complex, carefully balanced...

Well, there's always the Parker ratings... ;-) Unfortunately he has been the main culprit in the rise to the stratosphere of premium Rhone wine prices in the past decade or two. I had a small 'horizontal' the other night...

Although I seem to remember the odd reference to 'Canary Sack' in old English literature (including Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV), I hadn't really seen much less tasted any until I found myself passing...

Welcome to Snooth, tgrh. Forgot so-called 'cooking wine'. It's usually heavily salted, otherwise stabilized and just plain nasty. The phrase I was taught about selection of wine for cooking was 'cook with the best, drink...