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Munching Vidal Blanc on Keuka Lake, New York
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Extreme Wine Trip: Okanagan Valley BC Canada Part 1
Stuck at home? Grab a glass of something nice. Since we can’t travel, stray with me to the edge of wine-making. With so many “important” wine regions out there, I had set aside Canada’s Okanagan Valley. It was too far, … Continue reading
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Time For Champagne: WSET 4 Diploma Blind Wine Tasting
We could all use some Champagne about now.
I am deep into my WSET 4 Diploma course. I will write more about it, when not sequestered at home with a whirlwind toddler. But for now, I could not resist sharing this.
We started blind-tasting three sparkling wines. With no leads on what they might be, cost, or consist of, mixed in with two other sparkling wines, here is my 10 minute note on one that shone: Continue reading
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Balkan Merlot Wine Review: VukojE, Galerija, Bosnia-Herzegovina 2016
Wow. Hi internet, I missed you. Toddler distractions notwithstanding, let us turn our sails back toward the wine dark sea. Many leagues ago, I started to review Balkan wines my mother-in-law smuggled back with her. The tannic, native grape, Vranak made for some puckered and challenged palates (read here). But, how does Bosnia-Herzegovina handle the stereotyped grape of plush pleasure and ease: Merlot? Continue reading
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Rock’In Bottle
Want more minerality in your wine? Somehow this bottle of bright, chalky, organic white Burgundy also trapped a piece of gravel in its glass base: It looks like the wine should be fine…we’ll see.
Graham Beck Brut Rosé 2011
APPEARANCE: Clear, light peach color with silver highlights, fine small bubble. AROMAS: Delicate medium intense fig, red pear, vanilla powder, cardamon, whipping creme, crême fraiche, light cinnamon, slight bandaid. PALATE: Dry, crisp medium plus acidity, seamless warm alcohol, medium minus … Continue reading
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