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New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Varietal Wine

A Diet for Wine-and-Chocolate Lovers?

The headline read: “The Wine and Chocolate Diet.” Who could resist such a promise? Lose weight while drinking wine and eating chocolate? I simply had to read on.

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Picking the Perfect Pizza Wine

Perhaps it’s that ubiquitous image of the squat, straw-covered bottle on a red-checkered tablecloth that makes so many people think of Chianti as the quintessential wine to accompany pizza. more

Sweet Sensation

My friend Amelia said it best: If a wine could be a parfait, it would taste like the Henri Prudhon Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Sur Gamay 2003—a white Burgundy from a tricky vintage.

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Grignolino, Chestnuts, and Me

The varietal wine Grignolino does not garner a lot of press attention. But last night, as I enjoyed it with a plate of roasted chestnuts, it earned a special place in my heart.

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