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Category Archives: BY VARIETAL
Cloudline Pinot Gris: Send in the (Mutant) Clones
Pop quiz, class: When is a pinot grigio not a pinot grigio? Answer: When it’s a pinot gris. In Italy, where the workhorse grape of Veneto and Friuli is generally vinified as clean, green and routine, the result is a … Continue reading
Posted in OREGON, Pinot Gris
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Have Yourself a Códax Moment
One is ponderously dull, bleak with obscurity, difficult to follow and hard to enjoy; the other is light, lyrical and a snap to fall in love with. What do Fyodor Dostoyevsky and albariño and have in common? Only this: most … Continue reading
Posted in BY VARIETAL, Rías Biaxas
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Muscat Love
The muscat family tree has some interesting branches. To begin with, it’s a seriously ancient varietal, perhaps the oldest one we know of. According to the University of Pennsylvania, who analyzed jugs from the burial mound, muscat was drunk at … Continue reading
Posted in BY VARIETAL
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Zinfully Delicious: Big House Cardinal Zin
For some reason, zinfandel is the only grape varietal that really lends itself to excruciatingly lousy puns. I mean, what do you do with gewürztraminer? Petit verdot? Aghiorghitiko? Chardonnay, maybe, if you pull a Fred Sanford, mix it with Ripple … Continue reading
Wine Writer Sends Woodson To The Woodshed,Or Is It The Other Way Around?
What can I tell you about Charles Woodson that you don’t already know? That in 1997 he joined Tom Harmon and Desmond Howard as the third U of M player to win a Heisman Trophy, receiving more points that year … Continue reading
Posted in Cab/Merlot, CALIFORNIA
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A Bud By Any Other Name Would Smell Like Sweat
Name changes in California are as common as wildfires, killer bees and foreclosures, and most are done as savvy career moves. Hence, Archibald Leach became Cary Grant, Issur Danielovitch Demsky became Kirk Douglas, Prince became ‘The Artist Formerly Known As … Continue reading
Posted in BEER, Malbec
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