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0h, forgot to mention once again that you should definitely swing wide around white zinfandel roadkill... It's funny because white zin first came out as a California try at making an Oeil de perdrix ('the partridge's...

In chianti classico I like http://www.enotecadifonterutoli.it/index.php?Id=1&Lingua=ing It depends on how far you are going Montalcino is quite a bit south and the Maremma is quite a ways too. Southern tuscany is very...

Dmckr - the shellfish is so hard to pair with reds, it just seems to go so perfectly with the whites. However, I've taken down some very good suggestions folks have written for you here, include the one you posted about...

Well w/ your biology degree, was most of your plant based research based on agriculture that thrives in nutrient dense soils and is designed for high yielding purposes? Great grape growing seems to be at ends w/ most...

thanks, I am sure wine will be available on our hike, but I'm not sure of the selection in swiss refugios. I know some in Italy have a great selection. We will pass through a few towns but Geneva and Zermatt will be the...

Don't know how adventurous you wish to get (if that's really the right word), but I just remembered some excellent meals with pinot noir I've had based around rabbit, both in Switzerland and along the Russian River in...

Or at least an opinionated one. But donccpa, don't put too much credence into those scores, whether the 97 or the 89. One guy really liked it. The other guy did too, but he didn't like it as much. Neither is really...

Vineyards in Switzerland are mostly quite small, even compared to Burgundy, and usually on south-facing hillsides. I suppose this makes it hard for anyone to gather together the production and marketing muscle to push...