Archive for September, 2010

 

Challenging Wine Pairing: Hot Wings

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Are you ready for some football? We, Wine Peeps, are avid sports fans and are excited that football season has arrived. So whether you are a collegiate football fan or an NFL fan or both, the beginning of the season is a good time to think about food for those tailgates or meals for watching […]

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Great Washington State Wine Available in San Diego

Monday, September 6th, 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 thirteenth in a series of posts to […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Hybrid

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is hybrid. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Hybrid, in common viticultural terms, is the offspring of two varieties of different species, as distinct from a cross between two varieties of the same species. European Union authorities prefer the somewhat cumbersome term ‘interspecific cross’ […]

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Book Review: A Taste for Wine

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

What first attracted me to this book, A Taste for Wine: 20 key tastings to unlock your personal wine style by Vincent Gasnier, Master Sommelier, was the subtitle, because I believe there are many wine consumers who sort of know what they like in wine but haven’t equated it to a particular wine style. “Wines […]

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A Wine for Tonight: 2008 Buried Cane Merlot

Thursday, September 2nd, 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 2008 Buried Cane Merlot from Washington State. Our selection criteria include: […]

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Spotlight On: William Church Winery

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

William Church Winery, founded in 2005 by Rod and Leslie Balsley, is located in the warehouse district in Woodinville, Washington. Bitten by the wine bug when they honeymooned in Italy, Rod and Leslie got their start in winemaking as a hobby when they moved next door to a man named Dick Gidley who had been […]

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