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"Wine?s golden year was surely 1982 when, as the l ate Nicholas Faith put it, ?the Bordelais discovered ripen ess?."

https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/27872/Tim_Atkin_MW:_A_year_that_changed_wine.html

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TN: Burgs, Loires, Champagnes

Rainy Friday evening, roast chicken and fingerling sweet potatoes, and the 2002 Jadot Clos Des Couchereaux Beaune 1er....

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TN: Alsace night (plus btg Saumur and Burg)

Our first meal at a restaurant in ages, outdoors at Saint George in Hastings (steep slope, so they built ?terraces?). B...

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TN: Burgs, ESJ, Loire, Or White, Bdx, Bandol pink, Barolo, etc

Thursday we went up to Fable Farm, where we get our CSA from, for a dinner (in a hoop house greenhouse, sides rolled up...

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TN: Bize X2, '78 Gruaud, '83 Heitz BO, Saves, Stony Hill

Friday I just had leftover wine from Th with some green puttaneca, Sat we had striped bass roasted with tomato and shal...

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TN: Me, Warre, and BVGdLT turn 60, PBaron, Laville, Carillon, etc are younger

My plan for last few years was to have a big 60th party, to use up some of my magnums. COVID killed that idea. So we ha...

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Ripe vintage Haart. tired (bottle) of Ducru

2009 Reinhold Haart Piesporter Gräfenberg Riesling Kabinett (AP#7) Ripe and peachy, could pass for Spatlese,but solid a...

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TN: Weekend wines- Tuscany, Loire, Burgundy, Bdx, Marg. Valley, etc

ndian carrots and chickpea/spinach over saffron rice 2019 Edmunds St John Bone Jolly Rose Strawberries and raspberry, s...

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TN: 1978 LLC

Betsy made roast chicken, cumin carrot puree, squash, and caprese. Wine for our Zoom call was the 1978 Ch. Leoville Les...

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TN: all French- Bdx, Burg, Champagne., Loire

Betsy got home Wednesday night, so Iwas happy she was cooking dinner Thursday while I made an early trip to city. Came...

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CA wine industry and climate change

According to this: - When I set out a couple of months ago to research the impact of climate change on California?s $40...

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TN: Bastide Blanche rose, Luneau-Papin, Sociando

With teriyaki salmon, beets, & rice, the 2019 La Bastide Blanche Bandol rose. Pale and pretty, red strawberry/raspberry...

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TN: La Chapelle (Auxey & Rhone), Vouvray, pet-nat, Bdx

Friday I got out my tape measure for seat placement, and welcomed my local non-serious wine group. Everyone got a place...

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TN: Long weekend woith Pauillac, Etna, Burg, Loires, Corsica, Rioja, etc

An early evening run into city Th, then late dinner of leftover lamb chops and pappardelle with radicchio with the 2009...

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Coronavirus

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/06/hipcamp-airbnb-model-goes-rural-helping-wineries-and-farms.html

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