Palate Press

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I first discovered wine at the tender age of nineteen on a trip to Italy -- ostensibly to learn how to sing. I spent that summer learning more about Umbrian and Tuscan reds than I did about singing and have been spoiled rotten ever since. It is a terrible thing

2012 Redux: Languedoc Paradox, How a Big French Region is Trying to Show its Identity

Remy Charest

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

2010 Martin & Weyrich Moscato “Allegro”

David Honig

Wine Reviews

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This is an inexpensive sweet wine with acids and balance of a wine at twice the price. The nose shows honey and sweet Valencia oranges. Honey, oranges, and peaches in syrup, with an acidic background of lime, make up the palate. There's even a lingering lightly nutty flavor lingering on

Palate Press Wine of the Week – Hart’s Desire Cabernet Sauvignon

David Honig

Wine Reviews

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The nose shows eucalyptus and mint, with hints of dark chocolate, all over high-toned red fruit. The palate opens with very interesting herbals, eucalyptus over mint, complementing the primary black cherry flavor. Bing cherries and raspberries are on the mid-palate. The finish lingers. Drink with lentils and wild mushrooms. A

Hart’s Desire

David Honig

Wine Reviews

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I stumbled upon Hart's Desire at the Waterfront Tasting Room (53 Front Street, Healdsburg, CA) during Taste Alexander Valley, 2012. John Hart and his daughter, Shea, were working the room. They were both marvelous, their knowledge and enthusiasm for the wines filling the room with excitement. A small but adventurous winery,

Languedoc Paradox: How a Big French Region is Trying to Show its Identity

Remy Charest

Features

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In the world of marketing and sales, it's always good when you can keep things simple. Of course, this can be quite a challenge for an industry like the wine industry, where realities of place, grapes, vintages, styles, and terroir add up as so many variables to take into account—enough

Colorado Wine Industry Aims High

Tom Mansell

Features

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From the Denver/Boulder area, the Grand Valley AVA of Colorado is past the Continental Divide on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The trip westward on Interstate 70, which winds through canyons that the word "picturesque" struggles to describe,-read more-

Travelogue Greece: The Peloponnese, Sprawling and Diverse

Adam Caperton

Feature Stories

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Palate Press contributor Adam Caperton recently returned from a trip through Greece. Previously touring Santorini, then exploring Cephalonia, this final week we follow him through the Peloponnese. Nick Harlaftis Nick Harlaftis, the third generation owner of Chateau Harlaftis near the-read more-

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