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All Aboard the Bacchus Bus: An Insight into the English Wine Scene with Johnathan Garry
All Aboard the Bacchus Bus: An Insight into the English Wine Scene with Johnathan and his Top Tour Picks… There’s a lot of what I do that doesn’t feel like work (working in wine can do that to people) but it’s most likely hosting our annual cross-county vineyard tours where I feel most fraudulent! To…
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Discovering Israeli Sparkling Wine
How many of you have tasted Israeli Sparkling Wine? It’s not something a lot of us have had the fortune to taste or even to know much about, but it’s another sparkling wine producing country that’s carving out its mark and providing some quality bubbly to the world. The history of Israel and Wine is…
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Barefoot Winery of Napa Valley
I was getting into a doldrums finding American sparkling wines that peak my interest seeking the criteria of offering well made wines and delivering pleasure, with novel packaging. A tall order to request from any winery, much less discovered at a huge production facility in a region known for boutique wineries and prestigious wines. I…
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A New Winery in Franciacorta: Terre d’Aenòr
Terre d’Aenor is his name and Eleonora Bianchi (Aenòr is the german root of the name) is the creator of the winery’s vision. Eleonora was born in 1995 and she has a personal and professional story which is unusual compared to the typical wine careers. In fact, after classical studies at high school, she graduated…
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Does Wine Have A Soul?
When we drink a good glass of wine it often brings us thoughts, memories and emotional feelings. So what is it related to the wine which creates this? Thinking about this phenomenon, that we are touched by wine, raised the question: Does wine has a soul? Drinking wine is the feast of reason and the…
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Central Coast’s Laetitia Winery of Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo-California
I had been selected to be the opening sommelier for Norman’s as Chef Norman Van Aken had been chosen by Cushman Wakefield real estate developers to be an anchor tenant at the newly built Sunset Millenium Plaza on the famous Sunset Strip in West Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The developers had spared no expense…
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Is Natural Wine A Better Wine?
If we say natural, we normally mean: created by or in nature without human intervention. Now that makes it a difficult concept for wine, because making wine from grapes inevitably requires human action, like harvesting and processing. So we need to find a more useful description, such as: ‘nothing added nor removed’. So there might…
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New York Finger Lakes District Sparkling Wines
New York Hudson Valley and Finger Lakes District Flying into John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) airport was a moment that bred expectation and potential. I loved the heightened frisson anticipation, and my lack of really understanding how far apart NY state distances really are. When I arrived taking the transit bus from JFK, I was dropped…
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Oregon Sparkling Wines
Argyle Winery of Dundee-Willamette Valley, Oregon was the vision of winemaker Rollin Soles who earned his vinous chops via hard work, and sojourns from France to Australia. In South Australia, Soles worked with the highly regarded Brian Croser, Petaluma Wines owner. Croser demonstrated the single vineyard expressions of what Clare Valley and the Adelaide Hills…
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