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Entries for September 2009




Food for Wine Thoughts

September 29, 2009 02:47 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

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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Tags: wine | Cabernet Sauvignon | Sauvignon Blanc | Basilicata | Chardonnay



TV’s New Dose of Winemaking Reality

September 22, 2009 07:52 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

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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Tags: Lambertville | wine | reality television



New Tradition for the Un-hip

September 18, 2009 06:15 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

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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Tags: wine | Pineau des Charentes | France



A Blog for any Palate

September 15, 2009 07:15 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

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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Tags: wine | blog



At Last, We Meet the Bear

September 11, 2009 01:46 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

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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Tags: wine



Onward in Alsace

September 03, 2009 05:16 PM ET | Sue Guerra | Permanent Link

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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Tags: wine | France