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Schaefer on Wine: Doug Margerum has left the building

Date: Mon, Aug 10, 2009 Wine Tasting

In Santa Barbara County, Doug Margerum is nearly legendary. His wine shop and restaurant, Wine Cask, was ground zero for the emerging Santa Barbara County wine culture. But all that is now gone.

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30 Second Wine Advisor: Trade tasting season!

Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 Wine Tasting

As July ends, the annual pace of trade tastings begins to pick up again, as wine distributors take to the road with a few wine makers in tow, scheduling tastings for the wine trade in most larger cities.

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Vino e Cucina d'Italia: The Good Wines (and Food!) of Northeast Italy

Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 Wine Tasting

Most aficionados of Italian wine are familiar with the offerings of Tuscany and Piedmont. Not as many know the excellent wines - and food - produced in Friuli and the Veneto.

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30 Second Wine Advisor: Organic labeling clarified ... or not?

Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2009 Wine Tasting

New rules governing organic wine labeling in the U.S. took effect last month. The rule changes were intended to "clarify" the contents of organic labels for consumers. Clarify? Let's see ...

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WebWineMan: Spain does Sparking

Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2009 Wine Tasting

Cava is Spain’s answer to France’s famous bubbly - at a fraction of the price.

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Vino e Cucina d'Italia: Carciofi alla Sicilia

Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2009 Wine Tasting

Neil Duarte shares a generations-old family recipe for Sicilian artichokes, one of his wife's signature dishes.

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30 Second Wine Advisor: Roussanne goes Down Under

Date: Sat, Jul 18, 2009 Wine Tasting

Roussanne - whose name may remind you as much of a French philosopher as a wine grape - rates high among favorite white-wine varieties for me.

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Italian Wine Guide: Top Brunello di Montalcino Estates

Date: Sat, Jul 18, 2009 Wine Tasting

Tom Hyland reports that happily, 2004 was a great vintage for Brunello di Montalcino.

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30 Second Wine Advisor: Wine Focus - Offbeat whites

Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 Wine Tasting

If you join me in the quest for the wine roads less traveled, I think you'll enjoy this month's feature - Offbeat Whites - in Wine Focus in our WineLovers Discussion Groups.

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WebWineMan: "Think Pink" to Beat the Heat!

Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 Wine Tasting

Rosés are made just like their red siblings, just with less pigmentation from the skins ... It's a refreshing summertime quaffer, since you serve these chilled.

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30 Second Wine Advisor: Bottom-feeding Bordeaux

Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2009 Wine Tasting

Question for thrifty wine lovers: Can we find value in a niche where the critics and points-chasers focus on the three-figure bottles while much of the cheap stuff is plonk?

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30 Second Wine Advisor: Mixing it up with Meritage

Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 Wine Tasting

If you're dining out and thinking about ordering a glass of "Meh-reh-TAHJ," please think twice. In its original intent, this new word was not intended to be pronounced as if it were French. But hardly anybody ever says it that way any more.

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30 Second Wine Advisor: Study wine - Maps and history!

Date: Wed, Jun 17, 2009 Wine Tasting

Wine owns a special place in the world of food and drink because it's one of the few consumables that we enjoy not only with our senses but with our mind.

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30 Second Wine Advisor: Wine in box looks good in "green"

Date: Mon, Jun 8, 2009 Wine Tasting

Now get ready for the next big thing: In an age of environmental concerns and rising fuel costs, the glass wine bottle is coming under critical scrutiny.

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