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      2022 Merriam Blanc de Noirs, 25th anniversary sparkling wine: sustainably made

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      What We’re Drinking – Ridge “Lytton Estate” Petite Sirah

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      Wohlfert Distilling Craft Spirits Ride on Prohibition Heritage

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      Why Low-Alcoholic Wine May Be Increasing & An Adult Beverage Option; Even No-Alc can be Tasty

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      Top-shelf Tequila

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      Santa Rosa Craft Beer and Food Take Center Stage

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      Downtown Healdsburg for Fine Wine and Gourmet Dining

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      Enjoy Cancun-adjacent Isla Mujeres at Coco B Villas

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      The Homey, Amenity-packed and Elegant Yountville Hotel

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      Classic Chinese Fine Dining at Z&Y Peking Duck

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      Montréal Chefs Star in the Culinary World

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      The Bounty of the Columbia River Gorge and Mount Hood

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    2019 Pope Valley Winery Napa Valley Rosé

    Becky Sue Epstein
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    This is a dry rosé made in California, from the sangiovese grape; the same grape made famous by Italian wines like Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. The wine is a clear, light tawny cranberry color. It has nice minerally aromas with hint of fruit. Peach-strawberry fruit

    Rosé of Sangiovese?

    Becky Sue Epstein
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    2019 Pope Valley Winery Napa Valley Rosé This dry rosé is something different: it’s made in Napa, California, from sangiovese – the grape you know from classic Italian wines such as Chianti and Brunello. It is made at the family-owned Pope Valley winery, from their Eakle Ranch Vineyard grapes. Assistant

    Chianti Classico: A Professional Evaluation of the 2018 Vintage

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    Daenna Van Mulligen looks at the 2018 vintage and select wines from 2015, 2016, 2017 The 27th annual “Chianti Classic Collection” took place as usual, in early February in Florence, Italy. Despite the Italian government checking temperatures of every person entering the country when I arrived, by the time I

    Versatile Value Wine: 2016 Raimat “Pirinenca” Tempranillo

    Becky Sue Epstein
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    Having been told this was an extremely versatile Tempranillo, I decided to put it to the test at our local library's potluck dinner this week – and it’s true. Tasted beforehand, the wine began with sweet fruit flavors and cedar/baking spices on the nose and dark red fruit on the

    Everyday Wine from a Remarkable Place: 2018 Kellerei Bozen “Perl” Lagrein

    Becky Sue Epstein
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    This wine is produced by a remarkable cooperative of 224 families that was founded in 1908 in the Northern Italian mountainous territory of Alto Adige, also known as Südtirol. It's a lovely every-day wine made with indigenous lagrein grapes. Red fruit and flowers in the aroma. Sweet red fruit and

    2016 Furggl Lagrein Riserva

    Becky Sue Epstein
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    2016 Furggl Lagrein Riserva When opened, big aromas of dark-red fruit and earthiness wafted from the bottled, with a whiff of aromatic-sweetness. Fruity on the palate, more boldness than finesse. Probably at the top of its game now, as full as can be, with well-integrated tannins, some acidity -- and

    Bache Gabrielsen Very Old AOC Pineau des Charentes

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    The producers of the aperitif wine Pineau des Charentes have upped their game. In order to be labeled “very old” this traditional aperitif of the Cognac region of France must be aged in barrels for at least ten years. Which is quite a long time something that was traditionally a

    One Woman’s Quest to Rebuild Bosnia’s Economy Through Wine

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    Is it naïve to think one person can use wine to change a nation’s fate? Perhaps, but that is just what economist-turned-importer Indira Bayer has set out to do. The country called Bosnia and Herzogvina has a small, 12-mile strip of craggy coast on the Adriatic sea, a mountainous center
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