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St Patrick’s Day – It’s not just for beer anymore
Happy St Patrick’s Day Though St. Patrick’s Day is a religious celebration, enjoying a drink has long been a part of that celebration. And while it’s customary to have a beer or cocktail on St...
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Talking Turkey – and Wine
Wine Ideas For Thanksgiving With the cornucopia of food on your Thanksgiving table, finding one wine that works with everything being served is impossible. As I mentioned in my previous Thanksgiving...
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Pairing Wine With A Crockpot Chili Recipe
Easy to make slow cooker chili As the weather gets cooler, people are looking for easy, hearty meals for fall. I’ve seen a lot of people searching for chili recipes, and the wine to pair with them....
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Funk
Wine Music and Funk Funk is all around us. It’s in music, as a funky bass line. It’s in wine, as the funky, barnyard scent found in some wines. And of course, it’s in our head. We all get into a funk...
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Tasting Three Bordeaux Wines Under $20
Three Bordeaux Wines Under $20 I believe many people in the US are afraid of French wine! I feel this fear is the product of three factors, the inability to pronounce the wine’s name easily, the...
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Nine Wines For Your Thanksgiving Feast
Wines to Pair with a Happy Thanksgiving It’s a scant few days before Thanksgiving, have you finalized your menu yet? Of course you have, and you’ve paired the perfect wine with the meal, right? Well,...
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Six Bordeaux Wines Made For The Holidays!
Regardless of which holiday you celebrate, there is usually the need to have a party, or go to a party. And that means either serving adult beverages to your guests, or bringing a hostess gift to a...
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Dessert wine paired with Harry & David’s Organic Pears + Giveaway
French Style Pear Tart While any day is a good day for dessert, a holiday is the best excuse to enjoy it with a dessert wine. When Harry & David asked if I’d like to host a giveaway (end of this...
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Setting Wine Related Goals in 2014
Ring in the New Year with Pol Roger Champagne Cheers, and Happy New Year! I hope 2014 finds you and your family happy, healthy and prosperous! For me, I’m not making resolutions this year. I’m only...
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I Vasari – An Italian Red Wine Worth 20 Bucks
Italy One of my goals for 2014 is to focus on Italy. Not only wine from Italy, but food, architecture, travel, and culture. Some of those things I’ll write about, and others I’ll just enjoy quietly. Of...
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Dear Restaurants- Step Up Your Wine Game
Newly renovated Il Bellagio in West Palm Beach Robin and I don’t go out to eat very often. Since we cook fairly well, and always have amazing wine on hand, why settle for something subpar? And, when we...
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Seven Wines To Sip While Gnawing On Jerky
What Wine Pairs With Venison Jerky? I love pairing wine with food. When Janie from House of Jerky asked if I would like to sample their jerky products to pair with wine, I jumped at the chance....
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Pairing Beef Jerky And Wine – It Works!
Beef Jerky from House of Jerky In this family, we all love beef jerky. Given that love for jerky, when asked if I wanted to pair some House of Jerky products with wine, I figured it would be a blast. I...
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Thrilllist forces a Sommelier to try Two Buck Chuck
If you subscribe to the Thrilllist website, or Thrilllist on twitter, you no doubt saw the article about the recent Two Buck Chuck wine tasting. I tweeted the link, and had more than a few of my...
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Lost In The Cellar – Chateau Tanunda 2008 Shiraz
Chateau Tanunda – Barossa, Australia Wine When someone says Australia, is the first thing you think of a boomerang? Or perhaps it’s Paul Hogan saying “That’s a knife.” If you’re like me, you think of...
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Travel To Vineyards and Wineries
Muscadine Grapes Henscratch Farms in Florida If you love wine, or even like wine, make it a point to travel to more vineyards and wineries. Regardless of where your travel takes you, there is probably...
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Wine Collecting Has Nothing To Do With Bestiality
Fraud in the wine World If you don’t read Joe Roberts blog 1winedude, you missed the one where he likened wine collecting with bestiality. Ok, it wasn’t that direct of a reference, but he went there....
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Quick Sip – Stepping Stone Cabernet Franc 2008
Stepping Stone Cabernet Franc 2008 Confession: I put a bottle of Stepping Stone Cabernet Franc 2008 in my wine cellar, and left it there for almost two years. I told Craig Camp, the managing parter of...
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What is Cabernet Franc?
Cornerstone Cellars Cabernet Franc Harvest Have you been curious about the taste of Cabernet Franc when someone orders a glass with their meal? You may very well have had a wine made with Cabernet...
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Quick Sip: Long Meadow Ranch Sauvignon Blanc 2012
Long Meadow Ranch Sauvignon Blanc 2012 My sipping the Long Meadow Ranch Sauvignon Blanc during the nationwide Polar Vortex freeze had very little to do me taunting my frozen friends. Ok, maybe it had...
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