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    Great Sustainable Wine: LYRIC BY ETUDE Chardonnay

    It’s nice to see one of the most popular names in Napa produce an excellent Chardonnay at an affordable price, and with grapes from sustainable vineyards located in Santa Barbara

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    California, Wine
    California, Wine

    Great Sustainable Wine: BAKER & BRAIN Gruner Veltliner

    Let’s kick off our series on great sustainable wines with a wine from a region that’s a sort of epicenter in California for sustainability, experimentalism and adventurousness. If I had

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    Great Wine: EMILIO MORO Resalso Tempranillo

    Like a young, brash Pablo Picasso who’s ready to change the world but doesn’t quite know how yet, the 2016 Resalso Tempranillo from one of the great Spanish wine artists,

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    Spain, Wine
    Australia, Wine

    HANDPICKED WINES: On the Cutting Edge of Australia’s Contemporary Wine Scene

    1,000 years from now, when the story of Australian wine is told, it will be a tale of two eras: a) the Yellowtail Era; and b) the post-Yellowtail Era. We

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    WINE REVIEWS | A Flight Through Australia Via Handpicked Wines

    From the Barossa to Yarra Valleys, the Mornington Peninsula, Clare Valley, Margaret River, Coonawarra and Tasmania—exploring the wines of Handpicked Wines is like having a first-class seat on a flight

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    Australia, Wine
    California, Wine

    Great Wine: HARTFORD COURT Russian River Valley Chardonnay

    Whenever that list of greatest Sonoma County wines is assembled, a HARTFORD COURT Chardonnay has got to be on it. My choice is the winery’s Russian River Valley Chardonnay. The

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    Great Wine: Prescription Chardonnay

    How do you seamlessly marry sophistication and value?—two utmost qualities that consumers of all creeds desire. Those who manage to offer a product, rolled up in one, that satisfactorily answers

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    California, Wine
    Oregon, Wine

    Great Wine: EVOLUTION Sparkling Wine

    This is no time to play it safe. With the world evolving culturally, technologically and socio-politically faster than anyone can keep up with—and, with an industrial economy in the U.S.

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    Great Wine: Schloss Lieser Niederberg Helden Riesling Spatlese

    Nothing lights up a Christmas season like a German Riesling. Other than the fact that Nuremberg, Berlin, Cologne and Dresden are some of the best places on earth to celebrate

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    Germany, Wine
    Argentina, Wine

    Great Wine: Amalaya Malbec

    Don’t give up on cheap Malbec. Not now, not ever. Not when there’s one to be found like the AMALAYA Malbec. The 2016 bottling is a wonder of craftsmanship and

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    Great Wine: Vina Real Rose

    It’s now Fall, and Summer is over… so, stop wearing white and drinking rosé? I beg to differ. If you haven’t already figured it out, there’s no reason for rosé

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    Spain, Wine
    California, Wine

    Great Wine: Tangent Albarino

    Refreshingly familiar yet eclectically left-of-center, drinking well-made Albariño wine is like listening to seriously catchy alt-pop tunes from CHVRCHES, Tegan and Sara, and HAIM. Tangent, a label of Niven Family

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