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		<title>Yellow Tail Reserve wines: Nice Whites, Reds too Similar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to think I’m not a wine snob. So when I heard about mega-popular [yellow tail] ® wines’ Reserve line of course I wanted to try it Luckily, I learned about it through the US distributor, and WJ Deutsch &#038; Sons delivered a sample of all 5 wines. This is a relaunch of the [...]


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		<title>the Buzz about Agwa de Bolivia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coca-leaf liqueur from Bolivia? Of course I had to try it. The first time I heard about Agwa de Bolivia the producer seemed conflicted: they openly stated it was made with coca leaf, but they seemed to want to soft-pedal the coca/cocaine references. (Of course there is no actual cocaine in the bottle, but still…) [...]


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		<title>Stop Bottling Wine &#8212; at the estate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Climate project and wine guru Pancho Campo suggested this week that we might want to go back to the olden days of wine commerce. In order to avoid the tremendous amount of emissions caused by transporting crates of heavy wine bottles, we might want to return to the time when wine was shipped in bulk [...]


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		<link>http://beckysueepstein.com/2010/06/07/stop-bottling-wine/</link>
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		<title>Oxley? Yes, please</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just got back home, changed into shorts and flip flops, and made a drink. It’s a good thing I like Oxley gin. I mean Oxley Classic English Gin. We have a whole bottle of it and my husband decided he likes Tanqueray better. I think they’re similar; he doesn’t. There’s a clarity and brightness to [...]


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		<title>Sherry with New England Clam Chowder this week at MOOO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m intrigued at the brininess of excellent Manzanilla – perfect with seafood. Why don’t we have sherry with our oysters + chowders more? Maybe we will if the Secret Sherry Society expands. http://www.secretsherrysociety.com/ I also love the fact that Oloroso and Amontillado are not abstract names from literature but real sherries you can drink. Sherry [...]


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		<title>The recession is old news, according to sommeliers at New York’s fine restaurants.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if this is true elsewhere? Apparently, recession mentality bottomed out for NYC fine dining customers in the 4th quarter of 2009. Now diners are not afraid to show off anymore, if they have money. Last week, Wine + Spirits’ Joshua Greene moderated a panel with top NYC restaurant sommeliers Levi Dalton of Alto, [...]


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		<title>Price blind match: high-end food with non-high-end wines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This spring I had lunch at 2 high end restaurants, with NON-high-end wines: and it works surprisingly well. Very good to know. More specifics? Wine importer Pasternak thought this up. Cave de Lugny&#8217;s white Burgundy wines ($11-$20) very nicely paired with 3 courses at lunch at one of Boston&#8217;s top classic restaurants, L&#8217;Espalier. Also in [...]


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		<link>http://beckysueepstein.com/2010/05/18/price-blind-match-high-end-food-with-non-high-end-wines/</link>
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		<title>Mastered wine?  Your next challenge is tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re a person who knows an awful lot about wine, your next challenge may be tea. After attending a seminar given by Teamaster Chas Kroll at Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel, I was intrigued to learn about the subtleties of aroma and taste. Used to tasting wine, I wasn’t sure how to approach this, but [...]


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		<title>There’s a Chenin for everyone, and not everyone likes Pinotage.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what I learned at the recent South African wine seminars. Chenin is 30% of South Africa’s white wine and the grape is grown on 18% of the country’s vineyards. In the rest of the world, this grape is known as Chenin Blanc; it makes great wines in the Loire region but has little [...]


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		<title>Merriam Vineyards in Boston</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight a bunch of us tried Merriam Vineyards wines – among others – that various writers + friends brought to Jonathon Alsop’s Boston Wine School for an informal tasting. Teaching two young women how to taste wine, I employed 2 Merriam Vineyards Cabernet Francs. Kind of shocked them by saying “You have to spit. You [...]


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