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Sounds good, Eric, but I suggest you also keep looking around for other soleras/houses and vintages in your price range, if nothing else than for your own enjoyment and education.... You can also try to throw a couple of...

Am in Tokyo for several years now, so tend to view this holiday with particular sentimentality. 10 people for dinner, with staggered arrivals. Tuna and avocado tartare, raw ama-ebi sashimi and a couple of other snacky bits...

I know it's not a high end wine, but I used to love Widmer Cream Sherry. It had a great taste and quite a nice kick! No other cream sherry I've tried is very similar in either respect. However, I haven't been able to...

It seems like Vinotemp and Eurocave are about the best. Lots of companies have wine cabinets. I got a 30 bottle Danby one, but it really doesn't truly hold 30 bottles because even on the two shelves for red, bordeaux...

Beat me to it. Exactly - just buy a good Marsala, not the "cooking" verrsion ... as any other wine. It's a fortified wine that's actually made in a manner similar to sherry, so if you want, you can use an oloroso or...

Just buy a regular Marsala, and cook with what you don't drink! Nice, often ... veal, desserts, etc. The fortified version is what we usually encounter, and for whatever reason it hasn't developed the market that ports...

How about a wine introductory road map. I've been getting more and more into ... sweet, sparkling, fortified..... How does one navigate through all this?!

That's kind of how I think about it too. But how to draw the line? If it says 1955 and it's really 1995, that's pretty dishonest. But if it says 1994 and it's really 1995 and I like it and it's good, I'm not as unhappy....

Philip (and sorry, John, I'm not attempting to hijack the thread), have you tried Reisetbauer Apfel Cuvee Sparkling Apple Wine? Very well done, from a guy in Austria who knows surprisingly well how to make fruit wines....

Goulash: The ultimate comfort food Zinfandel: The ultimate comfort ... traditional recipe and then fortified by the knowledge of a number of people that credit themselves as Goulash aficionados.  One may...