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You are going to die before you have a chance to experience all the things in life that spark your imagination. Go ahead, make a bucket list, as they say. If you're intellectually curious, that list won't be a finite body of goals; it will be a living organism that

Drink Different: Rethinking Sauternes with Aline Baly of Château Coutet

Evan Dawson

Features

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Over dinner recently, a friend confessed, "I love Sauternes, but I always feel it's a waste when I open one." Why? The simple answer is that he views Sauternes as a dessert wine, and by the time he reaches that point in the meal, he's lost focus. The wine is

2012 Redux: Corkage, What Restaurants Get Wrong, What Needs to Change

Evan Dawson

Features

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Palate Press has selected our top ten stories from 2012 and will publish a 2012 Redux article each weekday until January 4, 2013. These stories highlight our featured columnists, widely recognized contributors, and most popular works published through the year. The Palate Press editorial board hopes you enjoy these highlights as we look

A Compromise to End the War Over the 100-Point Scale

Evan Dawson

Features

6 min read

Compromise is in the air these days. The rockets have quieted in the Middle East. Republicans are talking about taxes while Democrats entertain cuts in entitlement spending. President Obama is having lunch with Mitt Romney. Even Mark Sanchez, in an act of selfless immolation, decided to distract New Yorkers from

In Defense of the Wine Spectator Top 100

Evan Dawson

Features

7 min read

Wine Spectator's Top 100 Wines of the Year will soon be unveiled, serving to make good wines unavailable or, if they're available, unaffordable. It's the time of year when interesting wines dry up for the average consumer. Am I right? Isn't this annoying? The 2012 list will wreak havoc on

Napa Cult Cabs, ‘They’re Absolutely Getting Screwed’

Evan Dawson

Features

7 min read

Sometimes a wine is so good, so special, that it stays in your brain for days. Weeks, or even months. And sometimes it can force you to confront what you think you know about wine. That was the case after I was mesmerized by a bottle of 1994 Dunn Howell

Estimating the Impact of Oak: How to Decide Which Bottles to Lay Down

Evan Dawson

Features

5 min read

If you've ever thought about laying wine down for a few years or more, how can you know what to expect when the wine has been aged in oak? How can you tell when a wine will integrate that oak and when it will succumb to it? One of the

Uncorked: the Many Journeys of Marco Pasanella

Evan Dawson

Feature Stories

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Marco Pasanella's life is filled with more drama than most of us experience, and no doubt there is ripe material for a book. The problem with Uncorked is that it suffers from an identity crisis. Is it a memoir? A stirring drama? A how-to on building the retail store of

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The Col Vetoraz Winery Viewpoint on Prosecco

The Philosophy of Rosé: From the Costaripa Winery on Lake Garda

The Story of Spain’s Top Wine Estates

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2008 Santa Digna Cabernet Sauvignon Rosé – Central Valley, Chile

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

A Dog, a Mountain Hike and Gin

A Life-Saving Whiskey of Forests and Caramel

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Penelope Bourbon Introduces The Architect Series

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Wine Country Hospitality in Amador County

Why is Arianna Occhipinti a Winemaking Legend?

Top of the Mark Lounge in San Francisco Celebrates 85 years

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A Long Weekend in Newport Beach, California

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Wine Country Hospitality in Amador County

Top of the Mark Lounge in San Francisco Celebrates 85 years

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A Compromise to End the War Over the 100-Point Scale

In Defense of the Wine Spectator Top 100

Napa Cult Cabs, ‘They’re Absolutely Getting Screwed’

Estimating the Impact of Oak: How to Decide Which Bottles to Lay Down

Uncorked: the Many Journeys of Marco Pasanella

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