Tag: wine
member name: Lynn Hoffman
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November 30, 2007 04:00 PM EST --
It’s easy to get distracted by some of the numbers you see describing the
wines that grow in the vineyards around Vienna. There’s about 5 million bottles a year and it’s hard not to . . .
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October 19, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
In spite of the growing number-and apparent profitability-of high-end wines from Austria, there are still genuine bargains to be found. At a pre-harvest tasting at Wein&Co in Vienna, a Viennese Grüner . . .
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August 29, 2007 05:14 AM EDT --
B & G Vouvray and Moliterno
Back in the 1950's, the very few wine-lowers in the US could always rely on Barton & Guestier, a negociant who mostly bottled and labeled wines from . . .
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December 05, 2007 12:16 PM EST --
Austria’s dynamic wine community is mourning the loss of one of its most
consistently successful producers with the death of Alois Kracher on December
5th from complications due to cancer. . . .
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April 26, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
It's almost summer and before too long, many of us will be entertaining family and friends outdoors, cooking food on a charcoal or gas grill and puzzling over what to serve to drink. It's no wonder . . .
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May 30, 2007 04:02 PM EDT --
I just got back from one of the world’s most remarkable cooking schools and while I was there, I ran into some wines that you ought to know about. The school is called The Awaiting Table and it’s . . .
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October 08, 2007 10:18 AM EDT --
Every year, one of the premier wine education events on the East Coast happens in an unlikely corner of suburban New Jersey. Here, among the strip malls and housing developments, the tiny Evesham School . . .
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September 15, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
Gemischte Satz- Necessity Becomes Delightful
For hundreds of years, Viennese have enjoyed the fruits of a special relationship between their city and the vineyards that surround it. Since 1784 the government . . .
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October 07, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
Chaddsford Winery is one of those enterprises that dances back and forth neatly between earthy traditionalism and exuberant post-modern innovation. The countryfied winery looks perfectly at home in the . . .
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January 30, 2008 02:20 PM EST --
There's this dress designer named Vera Wang. She designs some pretty hot evening gowns. As far as I can tell, she understands the human body and does a lovely job of clothing it. Sadly, in trying to . . .
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February 13, 2008 05:18 PM EST --
Sake, as I'm sure you know, is a drink made from rice. The brewing process uses an starch-breaking enzyme in tandem with the fermenting yeast. A cépage is a blend- a mixture of two . . .
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February 13, 2007 12:36 PM EST --
Varietal School: Meet Five Great Grape Varieties
One of the first things that every new wine taster tries to navigate is the taste of individual grape varieties. The flavors of varieties are pretty . . .
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January 24, 2008 09:14 AM EST --
Here's a pleasant surprise: a grape that has always been known for the quantity of its harvet finally comes through with some quality. It's sort of like discovering that your jerky cousin . . .
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February 01, 2007 10:25 AM EST --
Some people say that music is the food of love. There’s another crowd that says that food is unquestionably the food of love. Wherever you come down on the matter, there’s no question but that . . .
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March 29, 2009 11:51 AM EDT --
Those of us who love our wine and beer sometimes spend a lot of mental and
emotional energy choreographing our intake. Sometimes we are
faced-on the next morning, let’s say- with questions about . . .
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January 21, 2007 09:42 PM EST --
What’s a diet book for?
One of publishing’s small ironies is that diet books are themselves usually bloated and overweight. Most of the information that they contain could easily fit in a . . .
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January 03, 2007 01:22 PM EST --
What should you look for in a wine shop? There are four things to keep in mind.
o Selection
Having thousands of bottles to choose from isn't . . .
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January 03, 2007 09:39 PM EST --
It happens a lot, especially if there’s only one wine drinker in the house. At the end of the evening, you’re looking at a half-full bottle of wine. You hate to see it go . . .
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February 13, 2007 12:30 PM EST --
Some people say that music is the food of love. There’s another crowd that says that food is unquestionably the food of love. Wherever you come down on the matter, there’s no question but that . . .
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