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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | | | | WINE TASTING GUY APRIL 30, 2008 Polaner tasting standouts Moving to the Rhone valley in France I tried some wines from Eric Texier. Next to Texier was Domaine Franck Peillot from the Bugey region of France (a place I had never previously heard of). wine I really loved and found quite unique was the 2005 Domaine de Roally Vire'-Clesse' from the Macconnais, France. don't know. | WINE TASTING GUY NOVEMBER 11, 2008 Bottle Shock I bet you thought the title was referring to the recently released movie that retells the story of the great 1976 wine standoff between France & Napa. Although the story is a very interesting one and I hear the movie was entertaining as well, that is not what I am writing about tonight. Sadly I | | | | | | | | | -
EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2008 CHARDONNAY: A STUDY IN WHAT WENT WRONG This trend of "Burgundian Style," ran rampant through the 1960's and into the seventies when in 1976 something big happened. By the 1980's there were more chardonnay vines planted in the state of California than in all of France. I am going to start this one with a recent quote from the San Francisco Chronicle: It all started, ".when MORE >>
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