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Re: Ex-AFWer makes good
Cool! That's good to know. I wonder if he'll offer an AFW discount? ;-) Mark Lipton http://michaelmina.net/rn74/
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Spanish Notes
Notes from an excellent Spanish tasting (with two Portuguese interlopers) 1996 Lopez Heredia Vina Gravonia Blanco Crianza – odd nose that featured petrol-like almost Riesling notes with an...
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[TN] '07 Schloss Lieser QbA
With Jean absent for several nights at a meeting, single parenting means a sharp limitation of dining options. Tonight, Andrew and I decided upon a dinner of cheese ravioli, so I whipped together a...
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Comparing apples and oranges?
What is Sassicaia doing in this tasting? Has mrs. Jancis Robinson always drunk Sassicaia thinking at a syrah? A.M. http://www.salomonwines.com/PDF/Jancis_Robinson_07_Alttus.pdf
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1998 Pomerols
1998 Pomerol horizontal notes, aka the ‘Fowl’ dinner (all courses were bird based) from a Commanderie de Bordeaux event in Vancouver. I tend to buy far less right bank than left, and more St....
 
TN: Disappointing Ramonet
Dinner was a roast herbed chicken, salad with yellow beets, and brown rice; wine was the 2006 Domaine Ramonet Bourgogne Blanc. I often find the basic regional bottlings from great producers to be a...
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Re: New York "floor tax" on wine starts May 1
The Decanter article is a little imprecise. What is happening is they are raising the excise tax on May 1st to about $0.19/gallon to $0.30/ gallon. They are doing a one-time tax of inventory to bring...
 
alt.food.wine mini-FAQ
This is a weekly reminder that the FAQ for this group resides at the website Additionally, it is posted monthly to the newsgroup Questions or comments about the FAQ are best posted to the newsgroup...
 
It's a buyer's market for wines
Being a novice wine drinker, I enjoyed this article, so am posting in case there is another like me. Posted 4-18-09, I believe. Control your personal finances. Bankrate has the advice, information and...
 
fat wine drinkers
The Daily tellegraph reports that Average wine drinker puts on half a stone of fat a year, says campaign group Now let me see - I became an average wine drinker about 40 years ago. So, 40 multiplied...
 
[TN] '90 Pegau and '01 Footbolt
Some times it transpires that chemists of my professional acquaintance also share my passion for wine. Such was the case this weekend when a prominent chemistry professor from Princeton happened to...
 
Reasonable Hotel in Buenos Aires?
Can anyone recommend a very reasonable, decent hotel in Buenos Aires, preferably in Recoleta or Bario Norte? I'm looking for something in the $40 to $70 range. Thank you.
 
Re: 1985 Ch Gloria
thanks for notes, haven't had '85 in years, but Gloria is a sentimental favorite of mine
 
TN: the antithesis of the PremOx issue (it shoulda been dead), plus '98 Right Banker
Who on earth would buy a 27 year old negociant village white Burgundy in half bottle (from a vintage where many GCs are over the hill)? Well, that would be me. Sometimes if I have won a few bottles on...
 
Nicolas Joly's business card
A few weeks aago Nicolas Joly was here in Austria. He held a one-day conference on the principles of biodynamic winegrowing. Location was Weingut Meinklang (Herr & Frau Michlits, Pamhagen,...
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