Cabernet and Chardonnay. Chardonnay and Cabernet. Maybe something really exotic like Syrah. Many, perhaps most, wine drinkers seldom leave the security of familiar varieties. They
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If you are a serious lover of French wine, the news about the weather this season is all bad. So how much will the First-growth
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Benzinger Merlot Sonoma County 2008
The German writer Gotthold Lessing remarked that “For Me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity”. Indeed, clarity of form or vision, along
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In the spirit of this book of logic chopping by Joel Jensen entitled There Exists an X, X is a Sandwich, we could debate whether
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