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TN: Heat wines wines- few roses, few whites, 1 red (Trousseau)

No wine Monday (stewed tofu, mushrooms) but Tuesday friends invited the hou nd and I to dinner. The dogs had rawhide wh...

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2009 Domaine des Baumard Clos du Papillon Savennièr es

I had dinner last night at my favorite local restaurant and I noticed that they had 2009 Domaine des Baumard Clos du Pa...

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TN: Burgs, BdB, Minervois, Saar, Beaujolais rose, CA CB/Viognier

Betsy is in Maine for festivals for a while longer, so Saturday I convened a meeting of the Rivertowns Folks Whose Spou...

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TN: BTG with rijsttafel tasting menu, plus a '98 Pomerol for Bastille Day

Thursday in Portland we went to Tempo Dulu in a lovely boutique hotel where we opted for the rijsttafel tasting menu. L...

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TN: wines BTG in Portland Maine

No wine Monday (with sockeye and clean out fridge leftovers), Tuesday we dr ove to Portland ME where quartet starts the...

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TN: Austria, Piedmont, Rioja, Champagne, Burg

Fred hosted our little local group for a look at Austrian wines- with a nic e spread of sardines, cheeses, tapenade, zu...

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TN: al fresco wines- Saves, ESJ, + Italians, Bdx, etc

We lucked out again with weather for the park concert- sunny, low humidity, not hot, nice breeze. Unusual band (kind of...

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TN: 3 roses, 2 whites, 1 red on July 4th

Betsy had a rehearsal Tuesday, so we didn’t host our usual 4th part y. But we did go to our usual fireworks watching pa...

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TN: 24 Francois Cotat, 4 Champagnes, 2 Vouvrays, 2 CalCabs

Yesterday I took the train up to Croton for part 2 of a big look at the win es of Domaine Francois Cotat. 13 intrepid w...

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TN: Burgs, Loires, Champagne, & Ribeira Sacra

Oops, forgot one wine from picnic Wed. 2015 Haut Bourg Grolleau Gris. Hint of spritz, good acids, light, easy to drink....

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TN: picnic wines- Burgs, Loire, Macedonia, Spain

No wines Mon (steak salad) or Tuesday (homemade pappardelle with anchovy/ra dicchio sauce), so I was happy to pack a co...

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TN: Wines by the Hudson and at home- Burgs, Rieslings, Loires, Italy, etc

Wednesday was a gorgeous (80s but low humidity) night for the first parks concert of the season. Betsy made soba salad...

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TN: Mark hosts SOBER, with '29-'88 DDC, Fiorano, Kalin, Gosset, '71 Climens, etc

Mark hosted SOBER last night, I picked up Franco and Paul at Tarrytown stat ion, and we arrived at Mark’s and were gree...

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TN: Lobster wines, plus roses, Corsica, etc

Thursday was National Lobster Day, and friends invited us over (Stew Leonar d’s had them on sale). Pup came as well. St...

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TN: 87 BdM, 87 AV, alpine/cool whites, Bandol rose, Chablis, etc

Friday I grilled swordfish, sauteed spinach, and opened the 2015 Landron/Lo uvetrie “Les Houx” Muscadet Not as racy as...

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