The Best Way to Get to Know the World of Wine – Dedalus Wine Classes 2010

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The Kung Fu Girl is Back! It’s hard to believe a wine this good could cost so little!

January 28, 2010 by Jason

Who drinks Riesling in the winter? Anyone chasing a little sun and summer fruit. Anyone serving Asian food or other spicy cuisine. Or brined and pickled foods — sauerkraut or preserved fish like pickled herring or gravlax. These wines play in the borderland between sweet and acid. They go well with food which is naturally [...]

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How do you drink like an insider for less than 25 bucks? Here’s our little secret: Domaine Gallety Côtes du Vivarais.

January 21, 2010 by Jason

Just about every glorious adjective in the book has been spent in the name of describing 2007 vintage wines from the Southern Rhône. Robert Parker gave the wines his benediction when he wrote that it is “the greatest vintage I have tasted in my thirty years in that region.” More importantly, our own Chris Parker [...]

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Should Cairanne be a part of your wine vocabulary? Catherine le Goeuil thinks so.

by Tim

Here is a sweet-natured, fragant Rhône wine.  It is lighter than some and openly appealing.  It is organic.  It is a little floral — more field flower than scented garden.  The taste is lively with just enough stone and wood at the back of our mouth to remind us that this is no summer-time idler, [...]

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