Palate Press

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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

Drinking Stars: Sparkling Wines for Holiday Celebrations

Meg Houston Maker

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5 min read

I know a few people who don’t drink red wine, and a few who don’t drink white. But I don’t know anyone who doesn’t drink sparkling. Maybe that’s because sparkling wine isn’t just a beverage, it’s a drop of luxury in a glass, a high-spirited companion to our celebrations, a

Best Wines for Comfort Food

Meg Houston Maker

Features

5 min read

Comfort food. It's polenta and pasta, roast beef and beef stew, pot pie and Shepherd’s pie and macaroni and cheese. It’s hamburgers, French fries, and toasted cheese sandwiches. It’s Chinese takeout and sushi and Chili con Carne; Osso Buco, Braised Short Ribs, and Fish and Chips. And, of course, bacon.

Non-Traditional Wines for a Traditional Feast

Christie Kiley

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4 min read

It is that time of year, once again. You have probably muttered to yourself a few times and shared it out loud with your friends, “This year went by so fast!” This week marks the mad dash to Christmas. But before you start making shopping plans for black Friday, take

A very (very) sensible book : a review of How to Love Wine by Eric Asimov

Remy Charest

Feature Stories

4 min read

It would be hard to fault Eric Asimov for taking shortcuts or being too categorical in his new book, How to Love Wine. The New York Times’ wine critic is a careful man, who doesn’t hide his opinions but does express them in nuanced, detailed ways, giving readers the lay

Blessed is Global Cooling: Balanced ‘Adult Wines’ from California

Alan Goldfarb

Features

7 min read

In a most delicious twist of serendipitous weather, we are producing here in California what I’m calling “adult” wines. That is, because of a confluence of maturation in the marketplace and three consecutive cool growing seasons—2009, 2010, and 2011—we’re seeing wines that are more balanced, more elegant, and wines that

Corkage: What Restaurants Get Wrong, What Needs to Change

Evan Dawson

Features

6 min read

I defy you to check out the wine list at the white-hot LA restaurant Sotto and not salivate. (That is, unless you're Steve Cuozzo, the easily and proudly stultified critic for the New York Post. Steve would find this horribly snobbish and over his head. Fortunately, you're not Steve. This

Wine Expert, So-Called: Or, How I Survived my 25th Reunion

Meg Houston Maker

Features

11 min read

Maybe it’s for your daughter’s wedding, or your nephew’s bar mitzvah. Maybe it’s the annual family jamboree, or a Thanksgiving dinner for an army. If you know something about wine, even a little bit, you might one day hear this: “Will you do the wine?” You’ll have a hard time

Wine

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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Do You Really Want to Know? Label Transparency in the Wine Industry

Spirits

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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Gin & Me

Travel

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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The Bounty of the Columbia River Gorge and Mount Hood

Hospitality

Wine Country Hospitality in Amador County

Top of the Mark Lounge in San Francisco Celebrates 85 years

Women Chefs Seed Plant Forward Dining at The Grove in Napa

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Luxury Hotels That Love Dogs Maybe More Than Their Owners

2012 Redux: The Food Science of Wine and Chocolate

Drinking Stars: Sparkling Wines for Holiday Celebrations

Best Wines for Comfort Food

Non-Traditional Wines for a Traditional Feast

A very (very) sensible book : a review of How to Love Wine by Eric Asimov

Blessed is Global Cooling: Balanced ‘Adult Wines’ from California

Corkage: What Restaurants Get Wrong, What Needs to Change

Wine Expert, So-Called: Or, How I Survived my 25th Reunion

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