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Tasting Wine, Broadly Speaking

May 28, 2012

“Tasting” wine, so-called, isn’t only about taste, about the wine’s flavors. It’s also about its color, aromas, temperature, and texture across our palate. Tasting wine requires us to tune into a mix of signals entering our sensorium, then make sense of the mess.

Round Table on Balancing Alcohol in California Wines

W. Blake Gray

May 20, 2012

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Santa Barbara County is one of the youngest wine growing regions in California, measured by both vine age and the age and experience of its winemakers.

You Just Opened A What? Cooking Tips to Make Food More Wine-Friendly

Meg Houston Maker

May 7, 2012

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In another recent article about wine and food pairing, I worked from the vantage point of trying to select the best wine to pair with any given food. But here the situation is reversed: you’ve got a wine picked out and now need some tricks to prepare the food so it’s more friendly with that wine.

Vinitaly Turns Over a New Leaf

Elisabetta Tosi

May 1, 2012

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In Italy, we have a proverb: never change a formula that works. Vinitaly’s original formula—a combination professional exhibition and popular festival—has always worked, for 46 years … until now.

Rattling Sabres: James Suckling, Robert Parker, Wine Writer Ethics and Bullying

Evan Dawson

April 24, 2012

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Thankfully, the Pew Research Center has more important things to do than to figure out what the public thinks about wine writers. I fear that if they undertook the task, they would find that many people view wine writing with some degree of scorn.

Les Vins de Vienne: Working the West Side, Thanks to Pliny

W. Blake Gray

April 15, 2012

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Pliny the Elder, the Roman author, was a fan of wines from the Rhône Valley. Something he wrote nearly 2,000 years ago struck winemaker Pierre Gaillard, a student of wine history, as a tip for finding something almost incredible today: unused Grand Cru-level terroir in the heart of French wine country.

A Look at Piemonte Esoterica, Or How I Fell In Love With Wine

Talia Baiocchi

April 9, 2012

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I’d fallen in love with studying art history in high school and regretted, throughout college, that I’d chosen a different—seemingly more practical—route (at the time studying journalism still seemed like a splendid idea). Wine reminded me that I use my brain best when the subject concerns beauty.