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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | VIGNA UVA VINO DECEMBER 31, 2011 Liberty School Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 Paso Robles An unexpectedly good red California wine for $13 a bottle (An on line search may get you closer to $11, but you'll have to do your homework). For over three decades, Liberty School has been among the best values in California wine. That’s what this Liberty School 2008 Cab is all about. | DR. VINO JANUARY 18, 2011 Bob Trinchero on the first Sutter Home white zinfandel By 1980, Trinchero says Sutter Home made 34,000 cases of wine, 24,000 was white zin. Louis (Bob) Trinchero, “California Zinfandels, a Success Story,&# an oral history conducted in 1991 by Carole Hicke, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. Then it got pink and sweet. | | | | | |
| | | | BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE MARCH 18, 2009 Obscure Grapes liked this immediately because I’m pretty sure it is also the name of one of the main characters from the hit 1980’s film Revenge of the Nerds. Tags: California Sparkling wine Rhône Valley Germany Greece Spain Dessert wine I was lucky enough to be invited to a dinner at Wine & Spirits Senior Editor Tara Q. Thomas ' house recently. | BROOKLYN GUY LOVES WINE JANUARY 18, 2007 Blind Tasting: Bordeaux Varietals, Part I love the idea of tasting blind, letting your senses, and only your senses take control (isn't that some 1980's pop song?). hope that participants will bring a variety of wines - Bordeaux of course, but also Long Island, California, who knows what else. One of my wine and food resolutions for 2007 is to do more blind tasting. | | | | | | | |
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EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008  Casa Marguery Malbec: Bringing the Past to the Present and Into the Future
The first settlers were the Spanish and they brought with them the mission grape via California. Political unrest and corruption plagued the country from the forties all the way through the to the 1980's with a brief revival in the mid fifties (which was good because it put more land under vine for the future). The answer is yes we do. MORE >> -
EAST VILLAGE WINE GEEK | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2008 CHARDONNAY: A STUDY IN WHAT WENT WRONG
European vines traveled to California in the mid 19th century. Chardonnay came to California in the 1930's but wasn't thought about much. He was in love with the wines of Burgundy and felt he could emulate that style in California. Most fruit wasn't so good." This, "is what Kevin Kelley calls a ‘perfect storm'." Cheers MORE >>
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