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Major Importer of Australian Wines Trimming its Portfolio?

in Shiraz
Date: Thu, Aug 14, 2008 Wine Tasting

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Just a week or two before we left for vacation in July I was offered deep discounts on wines from several Australian producers including J P Belle Terroir, Kay Bros, and Rusden. The reason given for the deep discounts was that the distributor was dropping these wines. I bought a few 6-packs and thought ...

White stone

in Sharon's Wine Blog
Date: Thu, Aug 14, 2008 Wine Tasting

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When we started seeing troglodyte homes lining the side of the street, tucked into the greenery-covered stone hills, we knew we were in the land of plenty that is the region around Chinon. Tuffeau walls and homes abound. There is an amazing clarity to the villages, with their luminous castles and churches and ...

Oregon vineyard maps, part 3.2: Ribbon Ridge

in Élevage
Date: Thu, Aug 14, 2008 Wine Tasting

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Last time, I detailed a bit about the large Chehalem Mountains AVA. I also wrote about how the small Ribbon Ridge AVA is included on the Chehalem Mountains map. So let's look at Ribbon Ridge more closely.

Looking at the Chehalem Mountains AVA map, you might wonder why Ribbon Ridge is a separate AVA. The ...

Takin' it to the... mountains

in Anomaly Vineyards
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 Winery Blogs Wine Business

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We spent the past three days on the outskirts of the town of Chester, which is near Lake Almanor, which is "sort of" near ...

Rosé Champagne ... A brief biography!

in Personal Wine Blog
Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2008 Winery Blogs

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Someone asked me yesterday in a brief phone call about Rosé Champagne. Before we go into the production level discussion, its ...

Love the Summer of Wine

in Adirondack Winery's Weblog
Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 Winery Blogs

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Well, it’s August at Adirondack Winery & Tasting Room in Lake George, NY. July started out good around July 4th and has ...

Grüner or later

in oenoLogic
Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 Wine Tasting

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[vineyard]A tasting of grüner veltliners from the Terry Theise portfolio, hosted by the ever-quotable importer himself. A few of his nearly-endless bons mots are interspersed amongst the tasting notes.

“It never matters how much a wine tastes, it matters how it ...

A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose

in Seattle Wine Blog
Date: Wed, Aug 6, 2008 Wine Tasting

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Gertrude Stein said that, but not all roses are created equal. So many Rose wines are flat, boring and too sweet. Not the one ...

Match for Perrin “La Gille” Gigondas 2005 : The power of deduction

in Beaucastel Blog
Date: Tue, Aug 5, 2008 Wine Business

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The historical terroir of Perrin’s Gigondas, La Gille lies at the foot of the Dentelles de Montmirail on sandy soils. ...

Wind Down With Wine, Bacchanalian Style

in BACCHUS FOR YOU
Date: Mon, Aug 4, 2008 Wine Tasting Winery Blogs Wine Business

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