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A Very Sherry Weekend
You know you’re in for a treat at a wine tasting when your mind is filled with images of mythical ocean-dwelling monsters before you’ve taken a single sip. Such was the case this past weekend as Andy Seymour of AKA Wine Geek guided his audience (myself included) through a lineup of sherries and a brief history lesson at the Summit Wine and Food Festival.
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Busy Weekend of Wine Events
There are two wine events happening in the Garden State this weekend that make me wish I could be in more than one place at a time. Check them out and perhaps join me as I sip a favorite beverage.
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Make it Yourself
There’s a classic joke in the wine business that if you want to make a million dollars in the industry you need to start with $10 million. But if you just want to try your hand at winemaking without investing in prime vineyard real estate and high-tech equipment, there are a number of places in the Garden State where you can do it for considerably less.
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Waste Not, Want Not
According to a recent report, folks in Great Britain are throwing away some 50 million liters of wine a year at a cost of about £470 million. It’s too bad: They must not be reading my blog—or at the very least they missed my earlier post about what to do with leftover wine.
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Kosher Wines: A Primer
With the Jewish holidays starting, I’ve been reading a lot about kosher wines, which have made major strides over the last several decades to overcome their reputation as the sickly sweet tipples of yesteryear’s blessings. As a case in point, a kosher wine—the Carmel Winery Kayoumi Single Vineyard Shiraz 2008 beat some of the world’s most renowned syrah and shiraz producers at the Decanter World Wine Awards last week in London.
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