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Painting By Elinore Schnurr
This past weekend My wife and I enjoyed going on the Long island City Open Studio Tour. One painter’s work, Elinore Schnurr, caught our eye as she likes to paint bar scenes and we like bars. She graciously sent us … Continue reading
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New Zealand Again
Last year I attended The New Zealand Wine Fair (see http://thewinepopulist.com/?p=143). When invited to go again this year I was happy to. Once again I was impressed with the high quality of all the wines offered. While I tasted wines … Continue reading
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Vintage Port
I recently attended a tasting of Vintage Ports. See http://thewinepopulist.com/?p=219 for a discussion of the basics of fortified wines such as Port. Each of the seven producers had a vintage 2011, and six producers also had another vintage of their … Continue reading
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Wine Basics – Oak
If you read the wine press, or even those little tags with scores and reviews that some stores put up, you will come across discussions of “oak” and “new oak”. So what does oak have to do with wine? For … Continue reading
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Austerity?
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/30/french-presidential-wines-to-be-auctioned-off/
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Wine Basics – Fortified Wine
Fortified wines are wines that even many wine geeks don’t know much about. So I will start with most basic of basics. Fortified wines are wines that have had alcohol added to them, most often brandy. This started as a … Continue reading
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Too sick to drink wine
Sorry that there have not been many posts of late but I am fighting a nasty bout of re-occurring flu. Wine has many health benefits but none work on the flu. Hope to be back drinking and writing soon.
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Amarone – I Changed My Mind
For a while now I have used Amarone as an example of a classic wine, often considered great, that I just didn’t care for. My wife and our friend Matt, both of whom love Amarone, have regarded this as a … Continue reading
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Take Your Vitamins?
A scientist claims he has made palatable wine that is chock full of good things for your health. Me I would rather take vitamins and drink good wine. I also think that many studies on wine and health disregard that … Continue reading
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