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Schiller Wine (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have checked out 4 wine bars in Manhattan: Bar Boulud, The Ten Bells, Terroir, and Clo. Bar Boulud Bar Boulud is Daniel Boulud’s wine bar and bistro located across from Manhattan’s Lincoln Center. Daniel Boulud is a star and plays almost in the same league at for example as Alain Ducasse He is a chef, owns now a little restaurant imperium across the globe and just got his third star...
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Brooklynguy's Wine and Food Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
My wife, a clear-thinking woman in her mid 30's, somehow found herself going to see that new vampire movie on a recent Friday night. The one with the cute couple - British guy and American girl, all over the cover of People magazine. You know the movie I'm talking about. When the wife goes out and I'm home alone with the two sleeping kids, I tend not to drink anything fancy. After all, one of the things...
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Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley wines (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The Santa Cruz Mountains has a long tradition of sparkling wines; Paul Masson's rose "Oeil de Perdrix" (Eye of the Partridge) won many accolades and he was even granted a licence to continue production "for medicinal purposes" during Prohibition. Barry Jackson has been making sparkling wine under the Equinox label for 20 years. The wine has traditionally been a 100% Chardonnay "Blanc...
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In the Land of Lynfred (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Choosing wines for Thanksgiving can be quite a chore. With so many flavors of so many foods it is often hard to choose the perfect wine. We like to make things easy for our patrons so we’ve chosen a few Lynfred wines that will be perfect for your traditional turkey dinner. With the many different flavors of Thanksgiving dinner we suggest an off-dry white wine such as Gewurztraminer , Riesling...
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Another Food Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
At a dinner in college I was the one bringing the wine. Since my host was a New Zealander, the New Zealand pinot noir I might have chosen brought thoughts of coals to Newcastle. Instead I went European, choosing a cuvée du Vatican Chateauneuf du Pape. The pope’s ninth chateau is not far from where [...]
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Barry's Wine Notes & Memories (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
On a forum someone was asking for advice on German cuisine and wines. Easy...Cuisine..my wife Eva...and the Wines...me! But don't tell him that..or I'll get requests for table reservations. Here are two evening's enjoyments... A starter of Feldsalat (in case you missed a previous post..Lamb's lettuce)...with a beetroot and shrimp topping... followed by Steak au Poivre...with a milder creamier sauce...
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Purple Liquid (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Last month, I was lucky to be in Paris just in time for the harvest festival in Montmartre . The Montmartre hill used to be a small village completely covered with vineyards. A temple dedicated to Bacchus, the god of wine, was built there by the Romans. But in the early 20th century, the vines were completely devastated by the phylloxera epidemic, as well as urban development. Fortunately, in the early...
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SFist (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Not that long ago, the idea of respectable non-jug, non-box wines for under $10 -- the kind of wine you could bring to a foodie dinner party without feeling like a cheap asshole -- was pretty unthinkable. Enter Trader Joe's and BevMo and suddenly there's a lot of truly decent cheap wine out there, and we're not just talking about Two-Buck Chuck. We're not huge wine snobs, but we do prefer our reds...
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Schiller Wine (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Picture: Christian G.E. Schiller tasting Christian's Cuvee at the Woelffer Estate 2005 Christian’s Cuvee, Wölffer Estate Vineyard, Long Island, USA This wine—Christian’s Cuvee—is to remember the great entrepreneur Christian Woelffer, the founder of the Woelffer winery on Long Island, New York State. Christian Woelffer died last year, shortly after New Year, in a sport...
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Australian Wine Review (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Here are the gold medal winner from the Air New Zealand Wine Awards. I'm listing them here in full as they paint an interesting picture of who wins what at NZ wine shows: Sparkling Deutz Marlborough Cuvee Blanc de Blancs 2006 (Pure Gold) Hawkesbridge Marlborough Methode Traditionnelle 2006 Gewurztraminer Curio d'Auvergne Vineyard Wairau Valley Marlborough Gewurztraminer 2008 Forrest The Valleys Wairau...
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Schiller Wine (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
When you are in Grinzing, Vienna, Austria, for a Heurigen wine, the wine of the current year, you often find wines on the wine list that do not indicate the grape varietal on the label, but say Gemischter Satz. These wines are blends. But they are not only blends, but field blends. Field blends are made from a blend of grapes that are grown together in the field and then picked and fermented at the...
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McDuff's Food & Wine Trail (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Pierre-Marie Chermette. His were the first wines that turned me on to not just the pleasures but also the deeper possibilities of Beaujolais. I first started drinking them in the mid-to-late nineties. It wasn't long thereafter that I found myself selling them, mostly the "Cuvée Traditionelle" but also the Crus, in fairly copious quantities. It's been a few years now since the shop...
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In the Land of Lynfred (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Wine club members enter their receipts with each visit into our monthly drawing. October was our 30th Anniversary month so we decided to give away 30 prizes! 29 lucky winners will receive a two pack of our Cuvee Red and White wines and the Grand Prize winner receives a Salmanazar bottle (holds 12 bottles) of Cuvee Red! Drum Roll Please...... Red and White Cuvee 2 pack Winners: Jeff Boddeker, Gendale...
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Vinography (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It seems that this week has me on a sparkling wine kick, and I see no reason to stop. As I often say (to myself and others who bother to listen): it took me a while to get here, but now I realize that we are all drinking far too little Champagne. These days, the whole world isn't drinking much Champagne, which is why the industry is in a bit of a crisis -- at least the really big players are. But...
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Welcome to the world of Ontario wine (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Although I never received one of the formal invitations to this tasting – just a bunch of emails back and forth between friends – I was told by another friend when I arrived at the tasting that the theme of this particular wine tasting was “All Bordeaux Wines under $30”. When you hear something like that you can almost picture a wine snob sticking their nose up in the air and...
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