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The Door Opens to Women Winemakers
A certain number of women winemakers, especially from California, are responsible for the wines that I select each year. Since I evaluate the wines first, I…
3 min
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Choosing Thanksgiving Wine
As Thanksgiving approaches, we’re inundated with advice about which wines to serve at the feast. Some voices advocate for certain wines, others for different ones. And…
3 min
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Castello di Volpaia & Poggiotondo – Italian Wineries November 2012
Located on one of the highest hilltops in the Chianti Classico region, Volpaia is a walled village built in the 11th Century on the Florence-Siena border.…
7 min
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Pellegrini Family Vineyards – California Winery of the Month November 2012
The Pellegrini family has been in almost every phase of the wine business, beginning with Nello and Gino Pellegrini, who were grape merchants during Prohibition and…
14 min
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Discovering Tequila
I love wine, but I don’t love it everywhere. I learned that lesson the hard way during a sweltering week in early August when I visited…
3 min
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La Montecchia dei Conti Emo Capodilista, Pojer e Sandri & Schreckbichl Colterenzio – Italian Wineries October 2012
The historic estate of La Montecchia lies in the Euganean hills of the Veneto region, 15 kilometers south of Padua. The Capodilista family can be traced…
9 min
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Everett Ridge Vineyards & Winery – California Winery of the Month October 2012
Stephen Sterling grew up with his three brothers on a cattle ranch in California’s Central Valley. During the summer, they worked from six-thirty in the morning…
13 min
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Developing Preferences for Certain Wine Styles
Both philosophical thought and common sense tell us that in order to understand a thing fully, we need to be acquainted with its opposite. We identify…
4 min
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Cataldi Madonna, Colpetrone & Capestrano – Italian Wineries September 2012
The estate is located in Abruzzo in the village Ofena near L’Aquila. Baron Luigi Cataldi Madonna founded the winery in 1925, and son Antonio expanded it…
6 min
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Carol Shelton Wines – California Winery of the Month September 2012
California winemakers have always looked over their shoulders at what their European counterparts were doing. After all, wine making, wine drinking, and wine literature had at…
15 min