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A Bootful of Wine - Tasting Notes from Italy A visit to Terrabianca ... being Merlot. This wine was closed and fruit flavours had to be coaxed out of it with heavy swirling and time. A classic Bordeaux style, with the...

Where in Central Ma do you live? I live in Townsend - NE of Worcester and very close to the N.H. State Liquor store. I checked out the web for tastings in Central Ma and found one on Nov 14 at a liquor store in Worcester...

That Pie Franco is indeed a good wine. They also do a version in barrique, super small production, not imported but I have some and think it should be, and their basic verdejo is very good too. Their sauvignon blanc is...

I do them all the time. Tonight it's California Cabernet! What sort of wines interest you? My time is tight for the rest of November but it's never too early to plan for December!

The Rutherglen tawney ports are good but the muscats and vintage ports (VPs) can be outstanding. The VPs are in a different style to the Portugese vintage ports, being more fruit driven, sweeter and not quite as spiritous...

I think I agree it's not what else so much as who else. Speaking of malbec, there are also some interesting fortified wines from Uruguay and I kind of like those because they also add spices and herbs and flavorings....

It's not so much that the off vintage makes the wine match the meal as the fact that some of the "great" vintages require more time. The 2005 Bordeaux for example, are pretty tannic and you can find other vintages that...

Actually not a bad translation by Google. Not stylistically slick, but the gist certainly gets across. They don't do anywhere near as well into English if the language is not European and relatively close to English in...

Hochheimer Koengin Victoria Berg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese QmP 2008 I came close didn't I?