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A Bootful of Wine - Tasting Notes from Italy A visit to Terrabianca Terrabianca is a medium sized winery in the heart of the Chianti region, in Radda, located just north of Sienna. It is owned by a German, Roberto...

This year I got the opportunity to participate in a winery employee project. Me and a few of other employees at Loxton Cellars got half a ton of Syrah grapes to make our own wine from. We’ll do all the work and we’ll...

Hey Gooselee4!! Welcome to the club.... I myself am 22 and in your situation.... My best advise is to drink a lot of wine....good wine bad wine it's all great educational material... Learn the characteristic of varietals...

Remembered a couple of things after posting the last. One was how many times I've had decent roses in Switzerland. Look for what's called Oeil-de-Perdrix (eye of the partridge, for the shade of pink of a partridge's eye as...

Hey everyone, again I'm sorry it took so long to sit down and reply. It has been one of the hardest weeks of the year that ended last night with a very successful wine and food event. Onto my response. First, sorry I...

Worth every guilty ounce of truffle cream sauce Cutting the fat with Dry Rielsing Eric Guido returns this week with a stunning Fettucini in Truffled Cream Sauce recipe. Using the the theory of...

Carmignano   I will devote this column to the small appellation of Carmignano. Carmignano is the Tuscan appellation closest to where we are living in Prato. It is small and had to fight for its inclusion in the DOCG...

One of the things that continues to amaze me is the just the sheer number of wineries that there are in Northern California. I’ve been to a lot of them but there are so many more that I have not been to. That’s why,...

I wasn't going to post anything but since this thread is still going . . . You can find a million wines under $15 but the question is whether you yourself would like to drink them. The more people who answer, the more...