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Wine in the Desert: Blood Into Wine in Arizona and Patagonia

Blood Into Wine

We all know the Bible story of Jesus turning water into wine, but in the desert, water is the one thing you don’t have and must pay an arm and a leg to get if you ever hope to produce wine. Winemaking in the desert may very well require turning “Blood Into Wine” ( as suggested by the […]

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Cupcake Wine: Sex & the City, Wine Pairings and Harry Potter

Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon

Is it just me, or are cupcakes (or more precisely cupcake sellers) everywhere? Cupcakes are suddenly everybody’s favorite dessert and every baker wannabe is trying to sell them. And if a budding entrepreneur is not selling them directly, they’re trying to brand a product with the name to take advantage of the uptrend. It all started with Sex […]

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Watkins Glen and Chateau Ste Michelle Party in the Summer Heat

Eroica Riesling

It’s HOT! In fact, climatologists predict that 2010 will be the hottest year on record worldwide, due in large part to El Nino, the tropical climate pattern that warms the Pacific every five to seven years. But, that didn’t stop the folks at the Finger Lakes Wine Festival this weekend in Watkins Glen, NY. In fact the Finger Lakes are doing […]

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The Wine Cellars at Corsham – A Literal Liquid Gold Mine

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Forget about wine cellar equipment for their McMansions, the super rich have an underground wine vault 100ft under the Wiltshire countryside in Southern England. Formerly Eastlays mine, a source of honey-colored Bath stone, it is now Octavian Vaults’s Corsham Cellars, the place where the rich and famous hoard their most precious bottles of Petrus, Lafite […]

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Winter Games 2010: Snow, Sabrage and Salmanazars

Andre St. Jacques in Bearfoot Bistro's Wine Cellar

On top of the immensity of the Olympic Winter Games, it appears the Canadians are planning an after party of equally biblical proportions. Thanks to Andre Saint-Jacques, owner of the Bearfoot Bistro and its extravagant underground wine cellar of more than 20,000 bottles (a perennial winner of the Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence), the Champagne […]

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Empress Josephine’s Wine Cellar

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Bordeaux wine lovers may credit the 1855 Exposition Universelle de Paris and Emperor Napoleon III’s “Official Classification” with putting Bordeaux wine on the map. But, it turns out that his grandmother the Empress Josephine, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte may have ignited French passion for the wine. Prior to Josephine raising the status of Bordeaux […]

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To Boldly Go Where No English Winemaker has Gone Before

At least since the Middle Ages. Due to warmer temperatures, a few British wineries have revived a red winemaking tradition which died around 600 years ago. Wine critcs’ opinions about the wine have been mixed, but some seem convinced that the finest red wines may in the future come from north of the English channel if this warming trend continues. […]

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Chateau Lafite-Rothschild is a Mountain of Gold

I don’t know if they still do, but at one time the Chinese called America Gum Shan, the mountain of gold, a symbol of opportunity and the chance to get rich. Today, the Chinese have found another symbol of opportunity whose very name beckons the ambitious. In French Lafite means small hill, in Chinese it […]

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Sauterne’s Test Tube Baby

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Chateau D’Arche, a Grand Cru Classe producer of Sauternes (dessert or sweet wine of Bordeaux) has started bottling its La Perle d’Arche wine in 100ml test-tube shaped bottles aimed at young drinkers in nightclubs. On the whole this seems to be a good idea since Sauternes is not well known outside the wine community, not […]

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The American Idolization of Wine

The public is going to choose wines for top London restaurant L’Anima using Twitter. I hope they like Yellowtail or anything else with a critter label. Maybe Fat Bastard:    Even worse: 

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