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Dalmatian Rarities

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
3 min read
I’m a long time fan of Dalmatia, Croatia’s southerly Mediterranean paradise. It was the first part of the country I ever visited, back in 2003 when the scars of civil war were much closer to the surface than they are now. Arguably the most strongly differentiated part of the nation,

The 7-Year Niche

Roger Morris
Features
4 min read
Readers of a certain age will remember Orson Welles assuring us in a 1979 TV commercial for Paul Masson – preserved on YouTube – that “we will sell no wine before its time.” But what is a wine’s time, especially a tannic red one?  When is it ready? Not surprisingly,
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Emotional Intelligence

Elisabetta Tosi
Features
4 min read
Many wine drinkers have experienced this at least once in our lives: We go to a nice region, visit one or more wineries, and taste several wines. At a certain point, simply, we feel good: the place is lovely, the view looks perfect, the company is pleasant. And the wine
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Lentils Worth Loving

Fabian Jauregui
Features
3 min read
“What’s for dinner?” asks my wife, as she’s wont to do. “Lentils,” I reply. Though she attempts to hide it, I can see in her eyes she’s crestfallen. “With sausage,” I add hastily. Later, though, at the table, she’s eating heartily. I cautiously request a verdict. “Much better than I
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Milwaukee’s Bitter Brews: A Cocktail Tour

W. Blake Gray
Features
5 min read
Milwaukee is so famous for beer that its baseball team is named the Brewers, and a guy used to slide into a vat of beer every time one of them hit a home run. Laverne and Shirley ran for seven years, into the early '80s, featuring two women who capped bottles in