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Dry Farmed Wines
Today I want to take a moment to consider the impact wine making has not just on our lives, but also on the world around us. It can be a very intensive type of farming, with many producers using fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and significant amounts of carbon-based fuels during production, just to name the biggest factors.
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Dehydration: The Perfect Way to Age Wine
One of the enemies of the wine lover is time. The greatest wines in the world are meant to be aged, to be given the time to allow oxygen, and who knows what else, to work their magic on young wine. The edges smooth out, the texture turns silky, flavors gain nuance, depth and complexity. It's magic in the bottle, though nobody can fully explain what happens in that bottle.
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Wines of Greece
For two weeks (June 8 22), New Yorks top restaurants and retailers are going Greek! Join the New Wines of Greece as we invite you to visit your favorite restaurants and retailers for special promotions, tastings, discounts, food-pairings and much, much more!
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The Bevebilita Score
Almost all wine scoring systems purport to reflect the quality of a particular bottle of wine. Wine reviewers like to fool themselves, some very effectively, that what we do is somehow objective. Its true that there are objective observations that can be made, using scientific analysis, regarding a wines alcohol, sugar, tannin, acid, and dry extract levels, but this is not what gets written about. Dont let the fact that these are objectively measurable fool you into thinking that a reviewers words are anything more than their subjective perception of these elements of a wine.
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The Seductive Reds of Friuli Venezia-Giulia
I remember my first few encounters with Friulian reds. I adored them instantly. The wines possess freshness and cheerful purpose. Brisk acidity focuses the wines and feisty, sometimes bracing tannins add a vivid crunch. Earthy, woodsy components play an important aromatic role.
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10 Top Napa Cabernets Under $50
I recently visited the Napa Valley for the first time in about three years. Like many wine geeks, Im jaded when it comes to Napa Valley wines, almost programed to dismiss them based on their success. You see, to be a true wine geek has somehow morphed into cultivating an exclusive appreciation of obscure wines. Orange wines? Bring them on. Oxidized? Even better. Wines with umlauts and cyrillic letters? Yummo!
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Scandinavian Naturalists
It is a true image, Ill concede, but thats not all they drink up north. The Scandinavian cuisine has been hauled as the next big thing by the likes of Ferran Adrià of El Bulli, and sommeliers of top Nordic restaurants now put all their viking prowess to the task of exploring wines which match. This may be where you find the driver in the next global wine trend.
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Do Bordeaux Blends Age?
With my recent tasting of 2008 Bordeaux fresh in my mind, it is the perfect time to revisit a tasting from early this year of what can only be described as minor Bordeaux of the 1980s. Truth be told, I dont recall the exact pricing for many of these wines, though they were mostly under $10 a bottle. Accounting for inflation, that means about $20 in 2011 dollars.
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Petite Sirah
Like Zinfandel, Petite Sirah is primarily a California wine: the Golden States long, sunny growing seasons are necessary to ripen Petite Sirahs substantial tannins and reveal its rich blackberry flavors. The wines structure, fruit and inky color make it an excellent blending partner for Zinfandel, red Rhône varieties and even Cabernet Sauvignon. As a varietal wine, it can be surprisingly complex and long-aging. Its also, not surprisingly, an excellent food wine.
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Tasting Beaucastel
Sometimes the wine gods conspire against you. I actually knew something like this was coming. Things had been going too well for too long. I recently thought about the roll I was on, nary a corked bottles in months and even some suspect oldies had showed well recently, rotted corks and low fills be damned. And then there was this.
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