Archive for July, 2010

 

A Wine for Tonight: 2009 Heinz Eifel Riesling Spätlese

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

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 2009 Heinz Eifel Riesling Spätlese from the Mosel Valley of Germany. […]

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Paso Robles: Odds and Ends

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Over the past few months, I have highlighted some of the people and places I encountered on my press trip to Paso Robles in March. Paso Robles is California’s third largest and fastest growing wine region. Paso is producing some excellent wines, has wonderful welcoming people, and is a beautiful area to boot. Before filing […]

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Food and Wine Pairing with Chef Jeffrey Saad

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

At the recent Wine Bloggers Conference in Walla Walla, Washington, one of my favorite sessions of the weekend was the Food and Wine Pairing Seminar with chef Jeffrey Saad, the runner up on season 5 of The Next Food Network Star. Jeffrey is a 25-year food industry veteran and restaurateur. He has a dynamic personality, […]

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Great Washington State Wine Available in Boston

Monday, July 5th, 2010

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 eleventh in a series of posts to […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Wine writers

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is wine writers. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Wine writers is an imprecise term that includes all those who communicate through the various media on the subject of wine. Some of them style themselves wine critics (notably the consumerist Robert Parker) while such […]

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Book Review: In Search of Bacchus

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Since I had read and really enjoyed George Taber’s first book, Judgment of Paris, the story of the historic California vs. France wine tasting in Paris in 1976, I have been looking forward to reading another of his books. However, Kori read and reviewed Taber’s next book, To Cork or Not to Cork, and she […]

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A Wine for Tonight: 2009 Pacific Rim Riesling

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

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 2009 Pacific Rim Riesling from the Columbia Valley of Washington State. […]

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