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Date: Thu, Jan 15, 2009

As part of rolling out the new site, I am now providing a full feed. Going forward, however, the feeds for the separate blogs will be disabled and only the feed for ProfessorBainbridge.com will work. If you currently subscribe to one of the separate blog feeds, please subscribe to ProfessorBainbridge.com’s feed: Subscribe in a reader

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A new blog for a new year

Date: Wed, Jan 14, 2009

The attentive reader will have noted that posting has dropped way off. First, there was the vacation. Too much fun to worry about posting. Then there was the Christmas to New Years cold. Then school started. And now the cold has turned into bronchitis. All of which has left me with little energy for blogging. It’s also given me the opportunity to reflect at some length on the basic fact...

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Dancing Bull Chardonnay (California) 2007*

Date: Mon, Dec 29, 2008

A second label of Rancho Zabaco, a Gallo brand. Simple and one dimensional, but clean, correct, and tasty. Peaches and apricots with a bit of citrus. Oak and alcohol in moderation make it food friendly. Grade: B-/B

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Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Demi-Sec (Champagne) NV

Date: Fri, Dec 5, 2008

A lovely off-dry sparking wine. Pronounced peach and other stone fruit aromas and flavors. Plus toast and nuts on the palate. Perhaps a shade less effervescent than Veuve Clicquot’s dry Champagnes, but there’s still enough bubbles and acidity to make it refreshing rather than cloying. Grade: A--

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Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Demi-Sec (Champagne) NV

Date: Fri, Dec 5, 2008

A lovely off-dry sparking wine. Pronounced peach and other stone fruit aromas and flavors. Plus toast and nuts on the palate. Perhaps a shade less effervescent than Veuve Clicquot’s dry Champagnes, but there’s still enough bubbles and acidity to make it refreshing rather than cloying. Grade: A--

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Darh Horse Cabernet Sauvignon Scharf Family Vineyard (Dry Creek County) 2004

Date: Fri, Dec 5, 2008

An exceptional Cabernet, with deep and jammy berry and cocoa flavors. I’m not convinced it would age all that well, but it makes great drinking now with robust meat dishes. Grade: B++

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Darh Horse Cabernet Sauvignon Scharf Family Vineyard (Dry Creek County) 2004

Date: Fri, Dec 5, 2008

An exceptional Cabernet, with deep and jammy berry and cocoa flavors. I’m not convinced it would age all that well, but it makes great drinking now with robust meat dishes. Grade: B++

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Vote early and often

Date: Mon, Dec 1, 2008

I’ve been nominated as having one of the top law professor blogs by the ABA Journal: This site is home to UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge’s three blogs devoted to law and business, wine and food, and punditry—the latter located appropriately on the right side of the page. How great for one-stop discussion-shopping in 2008: the economic crisis, the election, and that recipe for...

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Vote early and often

Date: Mon, Dec 1, 2008

I’ve been nominated as having one of the top law professor blogs by the ABA Journal: This site is home to UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge?s three blogs devoted to law and business, wine and food, and punditry?the latter located appropriately on the right side of the page. How great for one-stop discussion-shopping in 2008: the economic crisis, the election, and that recipe for...

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What (American) Wine Shall We Have for Thanksgiving?

Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008

Assuming a gathering of friends but not of wine snobs, you want good wines that will complement the food but not be the star attraction. Anyway, star attraction wines—well aged clarets, cabernets, or burgundies—don’t mesh well with Thanksgiving Day. Granted, roast turkey would go well with most wines. Turkey is not quite as much of a blank canvas as roast chicken, as it has...

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What (American) Wine Shall We Have for Thanksgiving?

Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008

Assuming a gathering of friends but not of wine snobs, you want good wines that will complement the food but not be the star attraction. Anyway, star attraction wines—well aged clarets, cabernets, or burgundies—don’t mesh well with Thanksgiving Day. Granted, roast turkey would go well with most wines. Turkey is not quite as much of a blank canvas as roast chicken, as it has...

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Domaine de la Chevalerie (Bourgueil) 2005

Date: Sat, Nov 15, 2008

Regular readers know that I dote on Loire red wines.Their forward fruit and bright acidity make them a perfect match for the French bistro mealsof which I am inordinately fond. This Chevalerie was perfect with steak frites tonight, but it also is a rather serious wine by Loire standards. It has heft and depth. Cherries, blackberries, a somewhat meaty/gamy note,and minerals on the finish. I...

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Domaine de la Chevalerie (Bourgueil) 2005

Date: Sat, Nov 15, 2008

Regular readers know that I dote on Loire red wines.Their forward fruit and bright acidity make them a perfect match for the French bistro mealsof which I am inordinately fond. This Chevalerie was perfect with steak frites tonight, but it also is a rather serious wine by Loire standards. It has heft and depth. Cherries, blackberries, a somewhat meaty/gamy note,and minerals on the finish. I...

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Louis M Martini Cabernet Sauvignon Monte Rosso Vineyard (Sonoma Valley) 2004*

Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2008

Given this vineyard’s history, one expected more. It’s a medium bodied, soft tannin, early drinking Cabernet with good dark fruit but not a lotof complexity or nuance. Granted, it’s pretty young, but it doesn’t appear to have the stuffing for extended aging. Grade: B/B+

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