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Monthly Archives: July 2024

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Will E Clickit – no emojis/graphics in comments has added a photo to the pool: Have a little faith. Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/will_e_clickit/53828108499/in/pool-17918700@N00

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Will E Clickit – no emojis/graphics in comments has added a photo to the pool: It’s special, the label says so. Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/will_e_clickit/53828017869/in/pool-17918700@N00

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gruen1960 has added a photo to the pool: nobeachandwoman? Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/192201929@N08/53249262003/in/pool-17918700@N00

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Juliaforphotos has added a photo to the pool: sign spotted in Crown Heights Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaygeeoh/52765379339/in/pool-17918700@N00

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@WineAlchemy1 has added a photo to the pool: Merlot, 10 days before picking, at Inama’s organic Villa del Ferro Vineyards, Colli Berici. Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/winealchemy1/37017524161/in/pool-17918700@N00

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Rezdôra Team Opens Massara in Manhattan

Who’s behind it: Restaurateurs Stefano Secchi and David Switzer co-own Manhattan’s acclaimed Rezdôra, in the Flatiron District, which earned a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in the 2024 Restaurant Awards. After more than a year of planning, they expanded by opening a new Italian restaurant, Massara, on Broadway, around the corner from Rezdôra’s location on East 20th Street. …

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2024 Wind to Wine Festival: Petaluma, Saturday 8/10

Petaluma is hot right now. And I’m not talking about this heat dome we’re under. The once-sleepy town best known for chickens, eggs, and homegrown star Winona Ryder has become a hip foodie extension of Sonoma Wine Country, with gourmet restaurants, charming boutiques, and ever-escalating real-estate prices. In truth, this gentrification has been going on for a while, but starting …

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Bordeaux oenologist recommends Refošk grape for climate change

Left to right, Vinakoper head winemaker Boštjan Zidar; Vinakoper winemaker Rok Jamnik; wine label designer Pierre Martin; wine consultant Nicolas Vivas Bordeaux oenologist and wine consultant Nicolas Vivas has recommended adding the Refošk grape to a list of varieties allowed in the famous French region’s wines. His comments came three years since six ‘new’, non-Bordeaux grape varieties were approved for …

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DWWA judge profile: Catherine Yen

Catherine Yen, a wine educator based in Hong Kong, is a judge at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2024. Catherine YenCatherine Yen Catherine Yen is a WSET Diploma holder and won the McNie Tasting Trophy in 2013. Also a WSET Wine Educator, Catherine is qualified to teach up to Level 3. Catherine is a qualified “Wine Expert” in Japan and …

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Malu Lambert’s favourite South African white blends

A vineyard in the Cape. Credit: GettyImages/Vicki Jauron/Babylon and Beyond Photography Contrary to popular belief – and if the 20 wines selected here are anything to go by – you can taste terroir through the lens of a blend. In South Africa’s case, white cuvées are the most transparent, with imaginative winemakers building a picture of place from a range …

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The Flavor of Family: Tasting the Wines of the Primum Familiae Vini

The Primum Familie Vini is an organization uniting 12 prestigious, multi-generational, family-owned European wine companies. Each one makes one (or more) of the world’s greatest wines. But what exactly is the purpose of this exclusive collection of some of the world’s top wine companies? In many ways, they’re still trying to figure that out. The members of the PFV are: …

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Wine Spectator Refuses to Compromise Blind-Tasting Standard for Bordeaux First-Growths

Reviews of recent releases from the first-growth châteaus of Bordeaux—Lafite Rothschild, Margaux, Haut-Brion, Latour and Mouton-Rothschild—have been conspicuously absent from the pages of Wine Spectator. In a free-ranging discussion between legendary Bordeaux and Napa winemaker Christian Moueix and Wine Spectator editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken, the reasons are laid clear. During a recent lengthy interview by Shanken for the …

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The Recent, from the Prehistoric (Victoria Wines, Part 1)

The post The Recent, from the Prehistoric (Victoria Wines, Part 1) appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. Over the last half of 2024, I’ve had the good fortune to be able to attend three tasting events (two of them virtual) for the media, exploring the wines of Victoria, Australia. Longtime friends of 1WD will recall that I spent a good …

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Dinosaur extinction set scene for grapes, suggests study

Fresh analysis has offered new evidence of plants from the grape family becoming more prominent after the extinction of the dinosaurs, and researchers suggested this was possibly aided by vines growing relatively undisturbed in forests. It’s a hypothesis that followed the discovery of fossil grape seeds ranging from 19 million to 60 million years old in modern-day Colombia, Panama and …

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