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Palate Press Grand Tasting Awards

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Wine Reviews
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Best of Show Türk Grüner Veltliner Eiswein Best White Wine 2011 Beauregard Bald Mountain Vineyard Chardonnay Best Red Wine 2009 Penley Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Gold Medals 2011 Beauregard Bald Mountain Vineyard Chardonnay 2008 Ceja Vineyards Dulce Besso 2009 Cornerstone "The Cornerstone" Napa Valley 2010 Dobbes Family Estate "Griffin's Cuvee"

Open That Bottle Night XIV

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Feature Stories
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Tonight marks the fourteenth annual Open That Bottle Night, the truly original wine holiday created by Dottie Gaiter and John Brecher. What will you be drinking tonight and why? Perhaps even more important, with whom will you be sharing it? Tell us about your own Open That Bottle Night, and

Making Reporting a Crime in Indiana

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Features
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ndiana hopes to join Utah in making it a crime to step foot on farm or industrial operations and take videos or photographs without written permission from the owner.  Indiana's proposed law makes no exception for the Press and should be rejected. Laws against photographing farm operations are a response

Natalie MacLean: World’s Best Wine Writer or Content Thief?

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About
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Natalie MacLean is a well-known wine writer who self-publishes a subscription newsletter at NatalieMacLean.com, who proudly proclaims she was named the “World’s Best Wine Writer” at the World Food Media Awards. Unfortunately, Ms. MacLean appears to be building her reputation, and her business, on the work of others. Her website

Simon Woolf

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About
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Simon Woolf is a WSET trained wine and food enthusiast living in London. His blog themorningclaret.com focuses on smaller producers who use organic, biodynamic or natural wine-making methods, and on those parts of the wine world less well travelled. Simon also writes for timatkin.com