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| | WINE TASTING GUY APRIL 11, 2010 I’m ba’ack…with Burgundy + The Passover season now behind me, I’ve run out of excuses for my prolonged absence from the blogging sphere. In recent weeks I’ve attended two meetings of my Burgundy wine club, and though in the midst of the Passover selling season, I broke away for an hour to visit a favorite portfolio tasting – the annual [.]. | BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE APRIL 15, 2010  Brooklyn Blossoms Funny, although this is a food and wine blog, I cannot resist sharing photos of spring at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden : Armenian Grape Hyacinth. | | | | | | | | |
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VIGNA UVA VINO | SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010  Abbona Dogliani "Papa Celso" Dolcetto di Dogliani 2003 DOC
From Piemonte, dark and ominous with deep purple colors, heavily textured and looking unfiltered, but then revealing woodsy aromas with floral notes, especially violets. bit of blackberry touches the palate with ripe plum and a hint of balsamic, nicely structured tannins, good finish. well that's another post MORE >> -
DR. VINO | MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2010  And so it begins… Jay McInerney, wealth porn, and the WSJ
The Wall Street Journal formally introduced their new duo of wine columnists, Jay McInerney and Lettie Teague, on Saturday (even though rumors had been flying on the internets for months). They replace John Brecher and Dorothy Gaiter who left the paper in December after writing the column for 12 years. He has met Hugh Hefner, natch. At least so far. MORE >> -
A WINE STORY | FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2010  Wines of Origins: The Real Deal
Guests at the 21 Club. Did you know that the U.S. is the second-largest export market for Champagne, behind the United Kingdom? Over 20 million bottles were shipped to the U.S. in 2004 alone. Or that Port is a fortified wine that comes form the world’s oldest wine region? Today, such a ruse is nearly impossible given strict AOC regulation. MORE >> -
DR. VINO | SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2010  This week in wine! Palin, college students, perfume, Long Duk Dong
What a crazy week in wine news! You’d think it was April Fool’s week. Spot which one of these stories did NOT happen this week: A) The French government has proposed making wine tastings available in college cafeterias. “Why is there sex education and not viticultural education? Described as “Brambly. Floral. MORE >> -
WHY WINE BLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010 Old Title, New Blog.
After a year of Why Wine Blog, I was contemplating leaving the Blogger platform and moving elsewhere. But, I like and have become accustom to what I had and I am not one for making major changes or starting over. Recently, Blogger as added a few new gadgets and a new template designer. Fortunately, I do own another domain ( MYWINEBASKET. MORE >>
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