Archive for November, 2008

 

Wine Blogging Wednesday #51: Baked Goods

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

The November edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, the blogosphere’s monthly virtual wine tasting event, is hosted by Joe Roberts of 1WineDude. Joe selected Baked Goods as this month’s theme in which he asks us to select a wine that has been deliberately heated, or Madeirized. Since he also left the door open for us to […]

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Filed under: Dessert Wine, Five-Bangs For Your Buck Wines, Fortified Wine, Lesser Known Varietals, Spanish Wine, Wine Blogging Wednesday, Wines Under $20, Wines Under $25 |

 

New Zealand Wine New Release Tasting

Monday, November 10th, 2008

At the recent Wine Bloggers Conference, we had the pleasure of attending the self-paced New Zealand Wine New Release Tasting hosted by the New Zealand Winegrowers. With all of the wine that had already been poured for us that day and the dinner with wine that was still ahead, Dad (John) and I did not […]

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Filed under: Five-Bangs For Your Buck Wines, New Zealand Wine, Pinot Noir, Red Wine, Sauvignon Blanc, Shiraz/Syrah, Sparkling Wine, White Wine, Wine Activities/Events, Wines NOT To Buy (1 & 2 Star), Wines Over $25, Wines Under $10, Wines Under $15, Wines Under $20, Wines Under $25 |

 

Helpful Hint: Preserving a partially consumed bottle of wine

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Since a standard wine bottle contains 750ml of wine which is equivalent to four or five glasses, there are many times that we find ourselves with partially consumed bottles. If you are single or the only wine drinker in your household, you may find yourself in this position even more often. We never want wine […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Clarification

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is clarification. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Clarification is the wine-making operation which removes suspended and insoluble material from grape juice, or new wine, in which these solids are known as lees. …. Clarification can usually be accomplished naturally by simply holding the […]

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Vineyard Walk at Michel-Schlumberger

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

During the recent Wine Bloggers Conference in Sonoma County, California, Dad (John) and I had the pleasure of taking a vineyard walk at Michel-Schlumberger (pronounced “mi-shell’ shloom’-bear-zhay”). We hopped into vans and headed up to the Dry Creek Valley in the northern part of Sonoma County. After driving along winding, wine country roads, we arrived […]

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Fielding Hills Syrah Vertical Tasting

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

For those of you who are not familiar with a vertical tasting, it is not a tasting at which you are standing up (although I suppose that you could). A vertical tasting is one in which you taste different vintages of the same wine from the same winery. You may remember that we fell in […]

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Filed under: American Wine, Five-Bangs For Your Buck Wines, Five-Star Quality Wines, Red Wine, Shiraz/Syrah, Washington State Wine, Wines Over $25 |

 
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