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Ann Lemons Pollack: A Well-Seasoned Life
Never a shrinking violet, Ann moved between many different worlds during her 76 years.
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It’s a Trifecta:
The winner of the 2013 Governor's Cup for the best Missouri wine this year is the 2011 Stone Hill Estate Bottled Norton. In addition, it took the Best of Class Dry Red and the C. V. Riley Award for best Norton. For more of the awards, you can click here.
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Stone Hill Norton Vertical Tasting 2012
Saturday night was the 24th annual Norton Vertical Tasting at Stone Hill Winery. It’s always a fun night, full of people interested in wine and in having a good time. This is a 10-year vertical tasting beginning with the most recent harvest, so it ran from 2002 through the new vintage of 2011. After considerable
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Valentine bubbles
Oh, so you also forgot what's going on tomorrow. . . . Well, we have to move fast, because it's Valentine's Day, and if we don't have sparkling wine, or Bubbly, or Champagne for the holiday and for our wife-husband-boy friend-girl friend-lover-mistress-whoever, we're in big trouble. Sparkling wine is a great drink. The bubbles add
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This Week’s Wine
Happy Thanksgiving! From our house to your house, we wish you a relaxing day, a tasty turkey, and a pleasing beverage to accompany it. Now — Do you have a date at the wine store tomorrow for something to accompany today's leftovers? Hold on a minute; we have a few ideas and suggestions that will
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It’s the Third Thursday in November. Again
It's November 17. Do you know what it means? A clue: It's the third Thursday in November. What makes it so important? No, it isn't my birthday. Send presents at another time. Give up? It's the day for Beaujolais Nouveau, the third Thursday in November, when the 2011 wine is released to people who have
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This Week’s Wine October 20, 2011
I've been a fan of wines from France's Rhone Valley for a long time; at least since before the phrase "Rhone Ranger," came onto the scene. My first memory of it is in a wine story by an English writer, and I was delighted at the linguistics involved, and that I had met a movement
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Wine October 6, 2011
Wine dinners always have a festive air, but there was an extra element at Lo Russo's recently when the wines of Bolen Family Estates were on the table. The evenng marked the release of Eric Bolen's excellent 2007 Merlot, and it also provided an opportunity to sit in on what felt like a reunion of
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The Fox and Hounds
Civilization has returned to the corner of Clayton Road and Clayton Avenue. The Fox and Hounds bar in the Cheshire has reopened, looking amazingly like it did in the 1950s and 60s, when the late Mark Pollman held forth behind the bar. His book, “Bottled Wisdom,” is for sale, and a small plaque pays tribute.