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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Study finds pretty restaurants with bad service pour more local wines

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Restaurants rated highly for decor are more likely to carry local wines, according to a surprising working paper for the American Associa...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

What does gunflint taste like? The shared vocabulary of wine tasting notes

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Earlier this week, my former colleague Jon Bonné published a story in the San Francisco Chronicle that included this sentence: This narrow...
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Drowned in Cognac: A beautiful death

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Catherine Vallet with her husband Michel, left, and son Laurent What's the best possible way to die? Nelson Rockefeller's exit ...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Booze will NOT last indefinitely in an open bottle

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For the last two weeks I've been cleaning out my liquor cabinet, drinking up the last sips of special bottles I had been saving. I d...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

I might be the world's best wine blogger

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I'm flattered today to announce that I made the shortlist for the Roederer Award for Online Wine Columnist/Blogger of the Year. Not...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Does the terroir of Salta, Argentina have a unique taste?

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Argentinian Malbec continues to sell well in the US basically as a cheap, big red wine. The danger for Argentina is that it will fall into...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Immigration story has a happy ending.

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Johannes Reinhardt Ready for a happy ending? Three years ago I wrote about Johannes Reinhardt, a winemaker in New York who was denied ...