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

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      Love Letter to a Volcano-with White Wine

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      Startlingly Vivid Prosecco-and More-from this Castle Winery in Italy

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      Panel Tasting: Rías Baixas Albariño

      Ryan Reichert
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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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      A Dog, a Mountain Hike and Gin

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      Conservation with Condensation

      Michelle Locke
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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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      Luxury Hotels That Love Dogs Maybe More Than Their Owners

      Barbara Barrielle
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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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      Recharge-Relax-Decompress-Dine in Monterey CA

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      A Long Weekend in Newport Beach, California

      Don Sonderling
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    Burgundy: Hearts or Minds?

    Simon J Woolf
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    My first education in wine came from my mum - a woman who loved fermented juice in a simple, unpretentious way, and who rarely if ever bought a bottle that cost more than $20. Bordeaux wines, she told me, were for the mind - the intellect even. Whereas Burgundy and Pinot
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    A Perfect Wine on the East Coast?

    Roger Morris
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    Once you’ve tasted victory, its flavor tends to linger in your mouth. Especially if victory’s flavor flows from the nectar of 100-point red wines, wines you have personally sealed into the bottles. From 2002 to 2005, John Irving Levenberg was a leader of the team that garnered California’s Paul Hobbs

    Monday’s Martini – Dry Fly Washington Gin

    David Honig
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    It's Monday again. I got through it. How about you? Let's celebrate. Today we're going to start with Dry Fly Washington Gin, a delightful offering from Dry Fly Distilling, in Spokane, Washington. It's a lovely gin, intensely fruity, with berries taking the front seat to traditional juniper. Too much vermouth,
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    In Memoriam: Laura Albertini

    Elisabetta Tosi
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    Laura Albertini, young owner of the small winery Terre di Pietra (mentioned in my recent column on this year’s Amarone tastings), passed away suddenly on the first of March, 2017. Married to Cristiano Saletti and the mother of two children, Anna and Alice (pictured above), Laura was just 36 years
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    The Annual Amarone Tastings: Who Was There, Who Was Not, and Why

    Elisabetta Tosi
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    For true wine lovers, appreciating the rich, decadent Amarone della Valpolicella is almost a given (despite W. Blake Gray's opinion). In fact, 11% of all the Amarone sold abroad ends up in American wine glasses. Concentrated and wonderful, long-aged and long-lived, Amarone is created in Italy’s Veneto region by intensifying

    Discoveries: Tasting Newly-Made Wines from the Past

    Becky Sue Epstein
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    Every so often, someone digs up an ancient clay amphora with grape residue and we all hold our breaths, waiting for scientists to try to re-create the wine stored inside 8,000 years ago. Occasionally it even works, and we’re thrilled we could be tasting the same wine that Biblical-era peoples
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    Monday’s Martini – Principe de los Apostoles Mate Gin

    David Honig
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    Juniper? Of course, but that's not what drives Principe de los Apostoles Mate Gin. It's the peppermint, the eucalyptus, and yerba mate, used in traditional Argentine tea, that makes this go. The peppermint and eucalyptus take the lead, but a silky chocolate lingers on the finish. Turning this into a

    Porcaccia di Montefalco

    Fabian Jauregui
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    I was surfing aimlessly through Facebook, just like any other day, when a particular image caught my eye... for, well, obvious reasons, once you see it below. It appeared to be called "porcaccia," which, although I was unfamiliar with the word (and Facebook was unable to translate correctly), must have,
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