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Food for Wine Thoughts
From a purely nutritional standpoint I have always disagreed with the notion that wine is food. But can wine be food for thought? It seems to me there are amazing little lessons hiding in every glass.
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TV’s New Dose of Winemaking Reality
I’m going to talk about wine in a minute, but before I do, I need to come clean: until last week, I had no idea who Jon and Kate were—you know, the stars of the reality television show Jon & Kate Plus 8. I suppose I’m in the minority on this one.
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New Tradition for the Un-hip
According to Jancis Robinson’s Oxford Companion to Wine, Floc de Gascogne is the Armagnac region’s answer to Pineau des Charentes (the vin de liqueur of the Cognac region)—which, readers may recall, I embraced as the unhip new sip of this minivan-driving suburbanite who has officially lost her grip on cool.
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A Blog for any Palate
The kids are back at school and I’ve finally gotten a chance—a few days late—to flip open my laptop and read the inaugural edition of the Palate Press—a new online wine magazine.
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At Last, We Meet the Bear
Our final day in Alsace was winding down and I had pretty much given up on trying to connect with wine producer Marc Tempé, the famed “Bear of Alsace.”
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Onward in Alsace
Alsace, France, is not only a world famous wine destination, but also a great place to reconcile two disparate notions of the perfect vacation. The teenage ideal: sleeping until noon. My ideal, calmly articulated each morning: “I didn’t drag your butts to Europe so you could sleep all day. Now, get out of bed and let’s mega-dose on culture and history.”
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