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Daily Archives: December 15, 2024

Wine tasting meets dreamy bokeh at Joseph Phelps Vineyards…

December 15, 2024 Photos

We toured Napa Valley in California for wine tasting. Joseph Phelps Vineyards had a room ready for an event, with many wine glasses on a long table, perfect for a bokeh shot with the vintage Dream Lens.   I processed a photographic, a balanced, and a paintery HDR photos from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the …

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December 10 | Two bottles of wine I bought this afternoon. N…

December 15, 2024 Photos

Two bottles of wine I bought this afternoon. Never heard of these varieties, never heard of this winery. But they were at the low end of my desired price range and the shelf description looked interesting so what the heck.   I opened the “Inferno” bottle last night. This is a basic, classic European wine, the kind of wine that …

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Etna Wine Estate

December 15, 2024 Photos

@WineAlchemy1 has added a photo to the pool: The ancient and very original Etna Wine Estate at Castiglione di Sicilia, near Passopisciaro, on the northern slopes of Mount Etna, Sicily, looking toward the Alcantara mountains in the background. Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/winealchemy1/13038105515/in/pool-17918700@N00

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Searching for the soul of Nerello Mascalese

December 15, 2024 News

Had I been writing 50, even 20 years ago about Nerello Mascalese – the Sicilian grape variety believed to have originated on the plain of Mascali, between Mount Etna’s eastern slope and the coast – this story would have been simple: an unfussy, high-yielding grape that ripens reliably and embraces Sicily’s oppressive heat. Its thin skin makes a bright red …

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