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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...

I'm underwhelmed by TJ's wine selections lately - there prices have started to creep up and you can find something better for under $20 at your local wine retailer. My fav pick of the summer was Marques de Caraces at...

I will be in Italy on the 18th but am ready to plan for a dinner in NYC the first week of December. Anybody interested? Any particular day of the week. I like Sundays, you can start early, spend a leisurely 4 hours over...

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...

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...

That's interesting, Jimmy re: the health claims or lack thereof. There's a movement to ensure that we all know what's in the food we're eating and drinking. I wouldn't be opposed to seeing the nutritional content. I...

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...

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...

Interesting comments. I think people forget that Australia produced fortified wines for many years. Even more interesting is that they were using Touriga Nacional in 1979. From the guys I've spoken to, I got the...

I still find some Bordeaux I like. I bought maybe a half dozen 2005s. Bordeaux as an industry however drives me crazy. There are plenty of great producers but the driving force behind too many is to produce "important"...