Something To Drink
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This Week’s Wine, January 2, 2010
The light grey (maybe silver) bottle with the black capsule and screw-cap stands out on a shelf. The big surprise arrives when it is lifted. It weighs so little that it's difficult to realize that it is filled with wine. It weighs more than a 10-dollar bill, which will buy it on line, but a
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This Week’s Wine: November 25, 2009
Well, here we are again –Thanksgiving is upon us and we haven't bought wine yet. The good thing is that all wine stores are open and bulging at the seams with good values at good prices. Another good thing is that the Beaujolais Nouveau hype seems to be mostly behind us. All the stories
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This Week’s Wine October 21, 2009
There's a great deal of bargain-hunting in wine shops these days. Only bankers, brokers (stock, not ticket) and professional athletes can afford the really good stuff. The rest of us are scrambling. But thankfully, with some winemakers and wineries also feeling some financial pressure, there are good values on shelves and lists. While I
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This Week’s Wine, October 4, 2009
I'm now 21st-century-qualified in terms of wine writers. I took part in a webinar last week, didn't spill any wine, followed directions and instructions, tasted six wines, asked a question and received an answer. I didn't see the pictures that came as a visual aid, but later discovered that the problem was in the transmission
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This Week’s Wine, September 6, 2009
The little ATV bucked and coughed, dug its tires into the grass, spun left, moved between rows of grapevines They were heavy with fruit turning from green to yellow and gold in the August sunshine. Hank Johnson braked, took a couple of sandwich-sized plastic bags from his pocket, handed one to me. "We’re going to
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This Week’s Wine, September 1, 2009
Want to win a medal for the wine you just made on your back porch? Wait until next year and enter it in the annual Missouri wine contest-your odds are very much better than at your favorite race track. After all, the state of Missouri’s wine competition ended recently, with the grape and wine program
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This Week’s Wine, August 25, 2009
The Wines of Texas Are Upon Us In my sports writing days, I traveled to Texas a lot, covering college and professional football, which is the state religion of Texas. Basically, Texas was legally dry in those days, but people who could get into the Dallas Press Club could get a drink. So could members
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This Week’s Wine, August 2, 2009
Because of an unfortunate scheduling conflict caused by the growing habits of grapes and the party-giving habits of winemakers, I missed the annual Stone Hill spring Norton festival a couple of months ago. That’s the time for an annual party when the winery holds a vertical tasting of the last 10 vintages of its premier
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This Week’s Wine, July 19, 2009
Remember the old movie musicals? Mickey and Judy and their pals, in the midst of a little friendly tap routine, would spontaneously decide: We’ll put on our own show. . . and we’ll invite all our friends. . . and we’ll do it in the barn. And suddenly, they were on their way to a
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This Week’s Wine, July 5, 2009
I was a young wine writer and David Stare was a young winemaker when we met over lunch at Zoe Houk’s first restaurant in Lafayette Square. Yes, it was a long time ago, but Stare, who established Dry Creek Vineyards in 1972, was talking of his dreams. He had bought land in the Dry Creek