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Tag Archives: New Years Eve
Happy Nearly New Year 2019 Serbian Wine Review
My resolution for 2019 is to hone this dull, rusted blade that is waywardwine.com That starts with a wine from the fringes: sparkling Serbian wine by Kovacevic (pronounced “Co vah cheh vich”…probably…). Everyone needs a mother in law to smuggle … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, Champagne, drink, Europe, Happy, New Years Eve, Serbia, Sparkling wine, travel
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Nearly New Year: Champagne Dinner at Paley’s Place Portland Oregon
With a newly minted one year-old daughter, my wife and I will not make it to midnight on New Year’s Eve. We find the next best fudge: sparkling wine Wednesday dinner at foodie stalwart Paley’s Place in Portland, Oregon. Continue reading
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Tagged bubbly, drink, Food, New Years Eve, Oregon, Paley's Place, Portland, travel, wine
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Have a Happy 2017
Alexandria and I wish you and yours a happy, prosperous, and peaceful new year. May your glasses fill with Champagne for all of 2017. (And try grower Champagne, Marc Hebrart, Blanc de Blancs: dry and taut yet redolent of orchard … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, Champagne, drink, fondue, Food, love, New Years, New Years Eve, romance, wine, wine paring
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New Year’s Eve 2017 Laurent-Perrier Champagne Profile
Confused by the Champagne shelf? Me too. Prestigious-sounding names blur together. Navigating the cursive fonts, French, shiny labels, crests, colors, and high prices might send you to Prosecco. Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, 2017, Champagne, drink, France, Laurent Perrier, New year, New Years Eve, travel, wine
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New Year Sparkling Wine: Champagne vs Cremant de Limoux and Loire
And so it ends not with a whimper but a bang. We cannot leave Paris without cracking a few more bottles of bubbly. No 191 day EU Austerity Drinking Tour could finish France without value Cremant or Champagne.
For a mere €15.00 we find true, actual, not Prosecco, Champagne from Champagne, France (specifically the village of Buxeuil in the region’s southern extreme). Grower André Diligent et Fils created this Brut: Continue reading
