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A Sea of Green in Wine Country

Jollie Ollie has added a photo to the pool: Kraichgau area South-West Germany. View from Castle Ravensburg Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/buttscat/55504402792/in/pool-52609756@N00

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Napa’s Singular Loire Love Affair

In 1996, after long careers working in Napa’s wine industry, John Skupny and his wife Tracey did something quietly radical: they started a small wine label dedicated exclusively to Cabernet Franc. They named it Lang & Reed, using the two middle names of each of their sons, J Reed Skupny and Jersey Lang Skupny. These days, especially in California, Cabernet …

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Three Tricks for Decoding Costco’s Wine Price Tags That Nobody Tells You

Updating this story and floating to the top as these tips are timeless for buying wine at Costco. Cheers. Most of the time when we’re browsing the wine selection at Costco, we look at the labels, the price, read the description on the Costco placard and check out the point ratings. But each one of […] Source : https://costcowineblog.com/three-tricks-decoding-costcos-wine-tags-nobody-tells/

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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 8/30/26

Hello and welcome to my (usually) weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up on my doorstep asking to be tasted. I’m pleased to bring you the latest installment of Vinography Unboxed, where I highlight some of the better bottles that have arrived recently. This past week included a set of wines from a project called Geographic …

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2023 Priest Ranch Napa Valley Proprietary Red Blend

We get a lot of pitches from wineries and PR folks to review wines from Costco, and accept them when we think it is going to be a wine that our readers will enjoy. This bottle was one of the more interesting ones that came our way. This is a proprietary Napa Valley red blend […] Source : https://costcowineblog.com/2023-priest-ranch-napa-valley-proprietary-red-blend/

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Vinography Images: Palimpsest

The well-used work board at Bass Phillip Estate in the Gippsland Region of Victoria, Australia easily earns the label of palimpsest, a surface (originally a skin or parchment) which bears the traces of much previous writing and erasing. One of Australia’s legendary Pinot Noir estates, Bass Philip was purchased in recent years by investors led by Burgundy legend Jean-Marie Fourrier, …

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