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Wine Regions

All About Sherry

8 December 2011
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Sherry has suffered from an image problem in recent years. This fortified white wine from southern Spain is often regarded as being the favoured tipple of elderly women and is frequently produced at slightly awkward, semi-formal gatherings of associates or extended family. However, sherry has far more to offer than the small glasses of warm, [...]

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Welsh White Wines

5 December 2011
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Wales may seem very much on the periphery of the world’s white wine making industry but vines have been grown in the country since Roman times. These days more modern winemakers are starting to make a name for themselves by winning medals and awards in some of the world’s top wine competitions. According to the [...]

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White Chateau Musar 1991

11 November 2011
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White wine is supposed to be drunk young, right? Well, not always. Many white Burgundies benefit from aging 5 -10 years, sometimes even longer. Dessert wines also are usually better the older they are, it’s not unusual to drink dessert wines that are 10 or more years old. However, age a white wine in the [...]

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Elegant Rosé Wines From Provence

5 September 2011
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Think of a summer wine and a rosé from the French region of Provence will be one of the first to come to mind. Pale, dry and elegant at their best, rosés from the region epitomise picnics and al fresco dining during the balmy summer days and light, warm evenings and make a welcome change [...]

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Floating Down the Danube to Domaine Wachau

4 February 2011
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Austria has been making quality wine for hundreds of years but unlike its better known neighbour, Germany, it seems to have fallen through the collective cracks in our memories and is only now beginning to be recognized outside of its borders for the world class, top-notch white wines that it produces. The Danube is not [...]

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Indian White Wine

23 January 2011
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White wine lovers looking to expand their wine horizons beyond the well-established wine regions of the world (both New and Old), could do a lot worse than turn their attentions to India – a country previously more famous for its tea than for its fine wine. India may not yet be synonymous with wine making, [...]

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A Tasting on the Sweet Side: Muscadine wines at San Sebastian Winery, St. Augustine, Florida

21 December 2010
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During my cursory research into Floridian winemaking I was shocked to discover there are no AVAs in the state. Not one. Zilch. Given that Florida was the first state in which migrant Europeans cultivated grapes (the Spanish, aparently, for sacramental wine) this may seem strange, but the climate of Florida is so hot and humid – borderline [...]

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Montagny: Premier Cru or Premier-Priced?

19 November 2010
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Guest post and images by Jim Gore, originally published on his blog: The Burgundy Wine Man. I have spent a significant part of this year in Burgundy, drinking and researching its wines, whites in particular. After countless tastings and many covert missions to the bottle bank, I feel I’ve got a pretty good grip on what is [...]

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Brazilian White Wines

15 September 2010
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Brazil may be famous for many things, but up until now, wine has not been one of them. Samba, football, beaches and bronzed ladies in thongs are all images associated with this vast South American country, but Brazil remains more famous for its tangy caipirinha cocktails than for its quality red or white wines. But [...]

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Up-and-Coming White Wine Regions

31 August 2010
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Today more than ever before, white wine buyers are faced with a bewildering array of choices when it comes to regions, grapes and production methods. Whereas the shelves of our supermarkets and wine merchants were once a comfortable, if a little predictable, stroll through familiar wine growing territory, today they are a veritable round-the-world adventure. [...]

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McLaren Vale White Wines

22 June 2010
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Thomas Hardy and John Reynell were the first to plant grape vines in Mclaren Vale. David McLaren, the Colonial Manager of the South Australia Company, arrived in the small colony just thirty five kilometers south of Adelaide in 1837, and Hardy and Reynell started planting grape vines in 1838; by 1850 Hardy Winery and Seaview [...]

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