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    Great Wine: Chateau La Pointe Pomerol

    How delightful!  When professional wine critics discuss wines from a serious region like Bordeaux, they have a tendency to take all the fun out of it. That’s a disservice to

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    France, Wine
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    Great Wine: Christian Moreau Chablis

    Chablis white wine evokes the image of a lonely housewife of the 60s in suburbia, USA, caught between the era of the domesticated, Stepford wife role-model of the 50s and

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    Italy, Wine
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    Great Wine: Felsina Rancia Chianti Classico Riserva

    Siena, the province of Tuscany, is known to leave a traveler awestruck with wonder. This handsome son-of-a-gun of a Chianti was born there, grew up there and has made its

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    California, Wine
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    Great Wine: Kynsi Syrah, Edna Valley

    One day, when the story of wine as a commodity is written, Syrah will stand tall as the one major wine that never sold out. That’s said in the spirit

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    Germany, Wine
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    Great Wine: Fürst Klingenberger Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir)

    The name of this Pinot Noir does not make for good clickbait, admittedly. German wine names are awful for clickbaiters. As a publication, our readership will take a serious plunge

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    California, Wine
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    Great Wine: Turnbull Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

    Add TURNBULL to the shortlist of Napa Valley wineries who seem to do no wrong. Go north on Highway 29 that runs through the heart of Napa wine country, and

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    France, Wine

    Great Wine: Demière-Ansiot Blanc De Blancs Champagne

    It’s tempting to pit “grower” Champagnes against the large, formidable “negociant” Champagne houses and use words like “better” or “more authentic” or “unique” or “artisanal” to describe the growers. Rather

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    Israel, Wine
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    Great Wine: Recanati Wild Carignan Reserve

    If you’re looking for a quintessential Israeli red wine, this is it. Carignan is the most widely planted grape in the country, thanks to a Rothschild who brought over a

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    Bordeaux, France, Wine
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    Great Wine: Chateau Coutet Sauternes-Barsac

    The 2003 CHATEAU COUTET, a First Growth Bordeaux estate, was the Sauternes that hooked me on Sauternes—to me, the most special and uniquely aromatic and addictively alluring sweet white wine on

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    California, Wine
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    Great Wine: Frog’s Leap Merlot

    Full disclosure upfront: we have an unabashed love for this winery. Why? Because owner and winemaker John Williams (yes, there is another well-known John Williams out there other than the

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    Germany, Wine
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    Great Wine: Joh. Jos. Prum Riesling Spatlese, Graacher Himmelreich

    Glorious German Riesling. After WWII, Rieslings out of Germany fell out of favor in the U.S. market, for obvious reasons, and the market hasn’t ever quite recovered since. This should

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    California, Wine
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    Great Wine: Spottswoode Sauvignon Blanc

    There is a lake in northern Yosemite National Park called Cathedral Lake. It’s a 7-mile hike from the main road at Tuolumne Meadows. Along the way in midsummer, there are

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