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Monday, November 24, 2014

9 tips for serving wine with Thanksgiving dinner

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Thanksgiving is one of the biggest wine-consumption days of the year, especially for folks who don't often indulge. Wine columnists ...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

Could a restaurant charge customers a "bad review" fee?

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An English hotel recently charged a couple 100 pounds (about $157) for calling it a "rotten, stinking hovel" on Trip Advisor. ...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

Darth Vader on Wine Spectator's Wines of the Year

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I wanted a second opinion on Wine Spectator's 2014 Wines of the Year , so I contacted Darth Vader, a formidable critic and emeritus ed...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Florida shoplifter snatches vodka: caption contest!

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You may want an antibiotic after viewing this viral photo. The photo has been making the rounds of the Internet. I love a good booze sho...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Good wine list idea: one-word descriptions

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We dined last week at TBD , a restaurant in San Francisco's mid-market district, and the wine list has a great concept that other rest...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Diner takes off glasses, suckered into $2200 Screaming Eagle ... or was he?

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Rule 1: never take off your glasses It sounds like an urban legend, or a hoax like this one . A diner in an expensive Atlantic City stea...
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Monday, November 3, 2014

Terroir fight! Napa vs. Anderson Valley vs. Finger Lakes vs. Santa Barbara

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Napa Valley from Smith-Madrone Vineyards on Spring Mountain A dirty secret of the U.S. wine industry is that among themselves, many somm...
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