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| Wines of the Pacific Northwest |
Wines of the Paci?c Northwest explores the history, wine laws, terroir, viticulture, vini?cation, and producers of Washington and Oregon. It identifies and describes the main wine regions within each state, and features profiles of the main wine producers. There are detailed maps of all the wine-producing areas and wineries, and an in-depth exploration of key influences on the wines—with contemporary issues such as Biodynamics, organic practices, and foreign investment accorded special attention. |
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Menu For Hope VI: Win Some Wine (and Other Great Stuff)
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How would you like to spend a week in Tuscany at a private villa, drinking aged Brunello di Montalcino, all the while knowing that you're enjoying the experience because you helped poor farmers in Africa? That, my friends, is the beauty of the charity event called A Menu For Hope. This is the
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The Future of Luxury Wine
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I spent the latter part of this week at the Vino2010 conference in New York. The largest Italian wine event held outside of Italy, the conference was a combination of major trade-show-style tastings, smaller focused tastings, and panel discussions. One of the panels I attended was entitled "The
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Last Day to Get Fabulous Wine Prizes for a Steal!
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OK folks, here's the deal. Today is the last day of A Menu For Hope charity raffle. You've got until Midnight tonight, Pacific Time, to buy raffle tickets for some seriously awesome prizes. Every raffle ticket increases your chance of winning said prize, and every ticket buys healthy,
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The Best Wine in Washington State: Notes from Taste Washington 2009
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The first week of April I got the opportunity to do an "immersion" course in Washington State wine. No, this didn't involve repeatedly dunking me in a vat of wine, amusing though that would have been. Rather, it involved attending the annual Taste Washington wine festival in Seattle. I flew
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Buying Birth-Year Wine for Children
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At two years old, my daughter is already pronouncing her judgement on wines. She does this in one of two ways. She either takes a long sniff in the glass, or she puts her finger into the neck of the bottle, twirls it around and then sticks it in her mouth while putting on a thoughtful expression.
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What I've Learned about Chilean Wine
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I thought about titling this post with a bit more gravitas -- something like "New Trends in the Chilean Wine Industry" -- but I didn't feel like I could pull it off. I spent a week there and talked with a lot of people, but can't speak with enough authority on the subject to title this post like
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Highlights from the 2009 Aspen Food & Wine Classic
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I just returned from a weekend as a speaker at the 27th annual Aspen Food & Wine Classic , the grandaddy of all food and wine festivals. This was my second opportunity to attend the festival as a speaker, and, like the first year, a doubly special honor, as Aspen also happens to be my home
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