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Tenute Dettori 2005 Bianco, Romangia

A little over a year ago, I was raving about this winery’s Tudori, an atypical old school Sardinian Cannonau that exemplifies their uncompromising commitment to making wines that express a unique …

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Sicilian Wine Reviews

A recent trip to Persephone’s island allowed tasting dozens of wines made from indigenous varietals, all of which captured Sicily’s sun-drenched, arid landscape and gave evidence of the cultural and ecological …

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Future of Australia Wines

What with their over-reliance on mass-marketing lower-end products (damned critter wines!); and, of course, they are relying heavily on those high ratings that Robert Parker so lovingly gave to those big …

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The UC Davis Diary

My former wine certification student Jenny S. is a first-year grad student in the Oenology & Viticulture Department of the University of California at Davis. Her emails about her first year …

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The Dark Effect of the Wine Glut

Wine prices are meager right now, which is a great deal for us wine drinkers and sommeliers. Problems come in when the prices are too low. This is happening in the …

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Bordeaux, or no?

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.  If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”  – Groucho Marx In the article Wine Scams: A Counterfeiter Confesses, wine writer …

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Winery Tour and Tourism

Similar to what the video did to the radio star in the ’80s, tourism has had a massive effect on wine tasting in Napa over the last 10+ years. It’s not …

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