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This week’s Wine Word of the Week is chai. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Chai is a French, and particularly Bordelais, term for a place where wine and occasionally brandy is stored, typically in barrel. Thus a smart Bordeaux chateau will have (perhaps) the chateau building itself with no direct […]
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Tomorrow marks two years since we started sharing our wine adventures with you here on Wine Peeps. What an exciting two years it has been! We have written 456 posts and tasted over 2,500 wines. We have had the pleasure to meet so many wonderful people in the wine industry as well as fellow wine […]
Would you like a quick suggestion for a good wine to drink tonight (or this weekend) that won’t break your budget and is widely available? Many of our readers have said this is something they would like, so here is this week’s selection, the 2006 Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet from South Australia. Our selection […]
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As a prolific reader, I’m regularly prowling the aisles at local bookstores, and especially the wine books section. The title of this book, Educating Peter: How Anybody Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert, is what first caught my attention. Then, when I scanned the Introduction, I knew this was a book that I wanted […]
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Recently, we had what turned out to be a California Pinot Noir showdown in one of our private tasting dinners pitting the 2007 Lionheart Wines Pinot Noir against the 2006 Cambria Julia’s Vineyard Pinot Noir. We liked both of these wines, but all four of us preferred the Lionheart. In fact, we thought it was […]
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For years, I’ve had friends tell me that they can’t find the great Washington State wines that I tell them about where they live. So with the help of Wine-Searcher.com and a lot of legwork, I’ve set out on a mission to prove them wrong. This is the fifth in a series of posts to […]
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This week’s Wine Word of the Week is shiner. Interestingly, this week’s Wine Word of the Week does not appear in any of the “official†guides I generally use, including Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine, Ron Herbst and Sharon Tyler Herbst’s The New Wine Lover’s Companion, and Charles Hodgson’s History of Wine Words. […]
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After visiting more wineries than I can count, tasting almost 900 Washington wines from 235 Washington wineries, meeting winemakers, and walking the rows in many of the best known vineyards in the state, these are the Wine Peeps team’s picks as the best of 2009. BEST WINE: 2006 O*S Winery Dineen Vineyard Syrah (featured Dec […]
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