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Your Most Unusual Thanksgiving Match (Wine Spectator)
More wine matching advice, I would wager, gets dispensed in the week before Thanksgiving than in the entire rest of the year. Or so it seems. Everyone has an opinion on which wines do best with the turkey and the trimmings on the one day of the year that the majority of us eat more or less the same thing.
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A Weekend Getaway in L A (Wine Spectator)
I spent last weekend in smoky Los Angeles, visiting friends and enjoying a slice of its diverse dining and social scene as wild fires raged nearby, making the air heavy with smoke and tinting the sun an amber color. Friday night I dined at Michael Mina's new place, XIV, it being his 14th restaurant.
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Late Harvest Pays Off in the Côte-Rôtie (Wine Spectator)
Posted by 1
I can see now that to be a good journalist or wine writer, it is probably better not to be a winemaker at the same time. Well, especially not during harvest! So a month after my first blog contribution, let me tell you a bit on what is going on in the Côte-Rôtie.
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Making Mourvèdre—Day 7 (Wine Spectator)
Posted by 1 November 5: The must has now been cold soaking for five days, and we've been regularly 1 and 1 as necessary to the fermenters. We're starting to see the readings more closely match our expected results. In the early stages, we often see smaller drops in Brix level (a measure of the sugar content) day-to-day than would have been expected from the amount of water added.
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Buyers and Sellers with an Eye on Napa Valley (Wine Spectator)
The 1 may be dead and we may never know all the reasons why. I still believe that Montelena's owner Jim Barrett wanted to sell the winery and was elated to have a buyer. Whether he changed his mind and wants to keep the property, or the economy changed the would-be buyer's mind and forced him to rethink his strategy, is unknown.
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