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TN Sula Vineyards Chenin Blanc 2007 (from India)

The Sula Vineyards Chenin Blanc, Estate bottled, Nashik (India), 2007is very light yellow and has 12.5% alcohol. It is...

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[TN] '06 Bone-Jolly =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ros=E9?=

What to do on a long weekend with the family gone to Florida? How about cooking a paella Valenciana? (I was given anoth...

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[TN] Alain Jaume Grande Garrigue 2003 Vacqueyras

Hello, [C] Intense, dark red, purple edge [N] White pepper, black mulberries, sweet tobacco [P] Fruit, very dark fruit,...

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posted by nils.lindgren

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Raveneau, Peter Michael, Le Bon Pasteur

A small cellar raid last night and friends chose the following wines. My only rules to the cellar raids are nothing pre...

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posted by rvwrlee

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2004 Graf Hardegg "V"

After seeing Michael Pronay's comment about this wine, I decided to seek it out. I checked the various links that Micha...

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posted by dave_devine

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[TN] 3 at Windows on the Wabash

What is a poor guy to do when his wife and son decamp for Florida for the weekend and the temperature drops to single d...

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posted by notpil

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TN: Franciscan Magnificat

We don't use the grill as much in winter, but last night we did, and it was a welcome change. An almost 3" porthouse to...

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posted by Dwmidnt

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How to buy high quality seafood and fish

If you are a fish and seafood person like me, then you will enjoy cooking seafood and freshwater fish whenever you can....

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posted by torque63

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Monthly Lunch Notes

Blind tasting lunch notes 2000 Albert Mann Riesling Furstentum - big fruit in this nose, obviously Riesling, smooth and...

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posted by wspohn4

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Gypsy Dancer

Thursday night in a restaurant, my wife and I had a bottle of 2004 Gypsy Dancer pinot noir from the central Otago in NZ...

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posted by aguila

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[FAQ] 11. What kind of cooling system should I get for my wine cellar?

Having noticed the number of posts on the title subject in recent months, I recently approached the folks at Galt Wine...

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posted by notpil

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Email offers from Antique Wine Company

I don't know how I got on their list, and I'm wondering if anyone else in this group receives them. One of the latest o...

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posted by dickr

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"...Common sense has always suspected that connoisseurship was just snobbery tricked out as expertise, and that wine connoisseurship was one of the purest forms of pretence...If you want to make a correct decision or solve a problem, large groups of pe

http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/pendock/2008/01/14/battle-of-the-buds/

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posted by aesthete8

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[TN] '99 Rosenblum Zin

With a dinner tonight of takeout BBQ ribs, Jean and I both felt the need for a Zin, so she brought up: 1999 Rosenblum "...

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posted by notpil

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WTN: German, French, Spanish

Monday Betsy made a shepherd's pie with a scallion-cheese crust, and "Irish onion soup" (similar to French, but using G...

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posted by Dwmidnt

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