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Well you got me going, Greg, so I went back and looked at my wine purchases over the past year. My online/mailorder purchases were exactly 24 cases. 12 from US producers and 12 from those in the rest of the wine world....

Yoshi - D9 beat me to it. I think the "zinfandel" you are referring to is the "white zinfandel" - which means they use the red grapes, but they quickly remove the skin so the color of the wine is pink (and much less...

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...

If I remember right, the reasoning behind not having that information is due to the gov't requiring that alcoholic beverages make no health claims of any sort in their labeling. This goes back to the snake oil salesmen of...

Some good food you're talking about, vks! Even if I don't like the taste of gin, I do like juniper berries in sauces dressing game. The smoked duck breast sounds like it'd be a good match, even if there's no shop where I...

Hey Yoshi, I was on the Kapalua side. Lived everywhere from Lahaina town to Kapalua infact. Maybe you'll be able to join us there next summer?

Funny looking back, we were all wrong. As for Greg on Bordeaux. I get it completely, two years ago I was still buying modern Barolo. I'm still trying to recover from it. We live and learn.

A Morning in Houston with Drops of Golden Dew: Dotson-Cervantes Gotas de Oro It was 9:30 on a weekday morning when the door bell rang. I expected this as, the evening before, I received a call from Alphonse Dotson. He...

When I was kinda poor and lived in L.A. I went to Silver Lake wine: http://www.silverlakewine.com/ It's a boutique wine store, and they carried a modern-style Montepulciano called Quattro Mani and for $6 I could not do...

If it's your first trip many people get really excited and go way too fast. It is much better to go slowly. what is your total number of days and do you intend to go anywhere but Tuscany? Some will say Florence that...