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CHEERS

jawadn_99 has added a photo to the pool: Red Wine Bottle and a Glass Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/jowmaco/54269682439/in/pool-912056@N21

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Wine & Glass

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Happy New Year (in Explore) | Shot with two off-camera flash…

Shot with two off-camera flashes. (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II L trigger). Flash A mounted on elevated overhead boom, bare bulb, modified with 4 inch reflector, camera left 135 degrees. Flash B, round head, camera right, 30 degrees, 45 degrees above table.   Done Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/99228543@N04/54237679072/in/pool-912056@N21

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Red leaves

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Anyone for port?

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Non-vintage rosé Champagne: Panel tasting results

Tom Hewson, Eugenio Egorov and Victoria Mason MW tasted 82 wines, with 1 Outstanding and 41 Highly Recommended Non-vintage rosé Champagne: Panel tasting scores 82 wines tasted Exceptional 0 Outstanding 1 Highly recommended 41 Recommended 38 Entry criteria: Producers and UK agents were invited to submit their non-vintage rosé Champagnes in any dryness level, from zero dosage up to sweeter …

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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 1/19/25

Hello and welcome to this week’s dig through the pile of wine samples that show up 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 crossed my doorstep recently. This past week included an eclectic mix of wines from here, there and everywhere. Let’s …

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2022 Kirkland Signature Bordeaux Superieur

This wine is a smoking deal and is fast becoming one of our favorite Kirkland wine buys. It’s not that it’s an insane wine. It’s the price to quality ratio that is special; in the case of this bottle, it’s really hard to beat. This remains a 87-88 point wine; it’s landed in that range […] Source : https://costcowineblog.com/2022-kirkland-signature-bordeaux-superieur/

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Marilisa Allegrini in Tuscany

Marilisa Allegrini with daughters, Carlotta (l) and Caterina, and CEO Andrea Lonardi. Until the early 1980s, Valpolicella was regarded as a cheap, thin, quaffing wine of no distinction. Until, that is, Giovanni Allegrini and a handful of others changed that perception by acquiring outstanding vineyards and producing wines with concentration and personality. After his death in 1983, Giovanni’s sons Walter …

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Pierre Amadieu Vacqueyras La Grangelière 2022 $35 (91 points)

Silky, open and generous, with raspberry coulis and smoked mineral undercurrents showing great harmony and length. Offers grilled alder in the backdrop, with intriguing spice and brown bread notes. There’s a winey, smoky edge to the smooth finish. Grenache and Syrah. Drink now through 2029. 3,000 cases made, 510 cases imported. Source : c6f2d968cc04f392e554e6d6f2bd3d85

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Vinography Images: Wine Country Residence

A lot of people pay big bucks to live amongst the vines. But if you’re a Rufous Hornero, you just find a convenient end-post and start building. Also known as the Red Oven Bird (and sometimes affectionately as the Engineer Bird) these relatively nondescript birds are all over Uruguay and the rest of South America. This one made its home …

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Edward Ragg MW

Edward Ragg MW is a new judge at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA). Edward Ragg MW, Ph.D.Edward Ragg MW Edward co-founded Dragon Phoenix Wine Consulting in Beijing with his wife and partner Fongyee Walker MW in 2007. Having read English at Oxford University, Edward began blind-tasting at Cambridge whilst writing an M.Phil. and, later, Ph.D. dissertation on American …

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Decanter luxe list: Kickstart your 2025 in style

Whether you’re looking to fête the start of 2025 in the utmost style or still planning this year’s calendar, we’ve pulled together some of the most decadent ways to celebrate the end of the winter season and beyond – because why should the party stop after New Year’s Eve? If you’re still trying to find a gift for that family …

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The complex case of moderate drinking

In March 1933 millions of Americans toasted President Franklin D. Roosevelt after he repealed the Prohibition. National morale was at rock bottom amid the Great Depression, so the new president declared: ‘I think this would be a good time for a beer.’ Ninety-two years later, the spectre of prohibition looms over the nation once again. This time, the new president …

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What will we be drinking in 2025: Trend watch

Nicola Chiucchiurlotto in his vineyard It’s the iconic greeting you get when you walk into The Varsity, a hotdog and milkshake joint in Atlanta: ‘What’ll ya have?’ It’s a mix of southern US charm and the casualness of a friend: it lets you drop your shoulders and relax – no pressure or judgement. And this is the question, with all …

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