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The most influential voice in the parallel wine world is Roberta Parker who regularly appears on television demonstrating how to choose wines to go with particular dishes, how to serve them, how to prepare wine cocktails, what to do with left-over wine and how to choose the best wine glasses. She also pays close attention to the aesthetic appeal of the labels... No comment yet.
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Often I’m asked, “How long should I age this wine?” And the answer is usually, “Drink it now.” For the truth of the matter is a very ... Delete the scoop?
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The recently announced 2011 Vintage Port declaration has met with considerable interest in Portugal and overseas. At Graham’s, we are very proud of our wines and it is very encouraging to register ... Delete the scoop?
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Me? A wine virtuoso? Don't think so. I'm rather an apprentice despite my 20 years of intense wine passion. But I kinda like the name - Wine Virtuosity. Delete the scoop?
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A Dark Day For Wine Lovers. We all dream big dreams, hope springing from our chests as easily as breathing. This is the human condition -- to aspire to a better life, even against the fiercest of odds. Delete the scoop?
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Over the last few weeks, two trading platforms have been launched that will allow UK wine drinkers to sell each other wine without recourse to auction houses or merchants. As Decanter.com reports...
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When I heard that Michel Rolland was hired as a consultant for Château Figeac, I thought, like others, that it was a premature April Fool’s Day joke. Delete the scoop?
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I went to a pretty interesting Gruaud Larose tasting the other week. Gruaud is a neat producer for several reasons. First of all, they have continued to make their wine from the same plot of land... Delete the scoop?
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Today's wine drinkers are confident in their palates and willing to trust the advice of amateur critics. With Parker's decline, this trend will accelerate. Delete the scoop?
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I was always one of those kids who was curious about where each dirt road that we passed lead. They always seemed so mysterious to me the way they meandered and then disappeared into the thickness of the forest. Delete the scoop?
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Flawed wines should be poured down the drain or returned to your server. Wine should be delicious -- and life is too short to drink bad wine. Delete the scoop?
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Michel Chapoutier is not alone in detecting similarities between 2011 and 1991. Both followed a brace of superlative vintages and both had rather uneven growing seasons, unusual even. Indeed 1991 took rather a long time to achieve its due recognition... Delete the scoop?
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Portugal is a small country, but it is the 10th largest wine producer in the world. There are 14 wine regions and 30 or so indigenous grape varietals that are used to make table wines. In spite of its diversity, the one region that has consistently made high-quality wines — at least since I’ve been in the biz — is Dão. Delete the scoop?
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The first 6,000 bottles of this much anticipated rosé sold out in six hours in France. But is it good? Up until the point that the wine actually crossed the lips of one of the wine critics, it seems that, in spite of the chateau’s pedigree, all pundits were skeptical about the Brangelina release. (I mean, really, there must be something they don’t do well….but, apparently not.) The wine is terrific and is garnering scores in the 90s (on a 100 point scale). It received 90 points—outstanding—in a Wine Spectator blind tasting of several rosés from Provence. Delete the scoop?
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Temperatures are soaring in Portugal and for once it’s not all brought on by global warming. Two UK-based wine personalities Sarah Ahmed and Jo Ahearne MW have approached ViniPortugal for help in selling a €300 pay-to-play advisory service for Portuguese producers wishing to export wine to the UK. Delete the scoop?
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“The jihadist movements of non-sulphured wines, green, under-ripe wines, low alcohol, insipid stuff promoted by the anti-pleasure police”—Robert Parker via Twitter, 5/1/2013 Delete the scoop?
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Robert Parker posts about 34 magnums they're drinking at The Wine Advocate, Inc. Delete the scoop?
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How to Love Italian Wine or Die Trying: A First Timer's Guide to VinItaly. So, you enjoy a nice glass of Chianti now and then? You savor a Barolo or two when given the chance? Delete the scoop?
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"China isn't easy"; "It's a tough market..."; "Taking a long time to get really going"; "China hasn't developed a wine culture yet..." Over the last few weeks...
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Imagine that you are in Mendoza. You’re visiting local wine producers in the region but it becomes apparent that they don’t think much of Malbec – and they’re not afraid to be vocal about their disdain for the wine region’s most important export. It doesn’t seem like a wise marketing technique, does it? But that’s what is happening in New Zealand. Delete the scoop?
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2013 Rhone Rangers Tasting: March 23, San Francisco. An occasional cloudy day like today aside, it certainly feels like Spring is in the air. Delete the scoop?
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More often than not, food and wine pairing seems to me no more than hypnotism without the swinging watch. Some Authoritative Personality tells us that Sauvignon Delete the scoop?
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For three decades, Robert Parker has been the world's most important wine critic. Now the position is open. Who's going to take it? I was all set to declare the Robert Parker era over after the back-to-back announcements that he sold the Wine Advocate and the Advocate's most prolific critic, Antonio Galloni, has left the publication to go out on his own. Delete the scoop?
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Bordeaux is France’s largest PDO (AOC) region, representing three percent of Europe’s vineyards, 60 appellations and six families of wines: dry white wines, Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur, the newly-formed Côtes de Bordeaux, Saint... Delete the scoop?
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Despite giving the world the word οἶνος (oinos) several millennia ago, Greece is these days far from being a classic wine region - a mountainous Balkan country better known for its financial irregularities, scandals and popular unrest, it reminds me in many ways of Austria which had to reinvent its wine industry in the 1980s. Delete the scoop?
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