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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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    FROM THE CELLAR | Great Wine: 2009 Chateau Figeac

    Does wine have a soul?  Some say that a living thing which isn’t human only forms a soul once it establishes a deep connection with a human soul. Compare, say,

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    FROM THE CELLAR | Great Wine: 2001 Chateau Suduiraut Sauternes

    The turn of the 21st Century brought about a remarkable vintage for sweet white wines in Bordeaux. The year 2001 also brought upon the downfall of Enron, the launch of

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    Great Wine: Clos Solene Sweet Clementine (Banyuls-Style Dessert Wine)

    There’s a reason why you fall in love with someone after a meal and not before. You’re simply jumping in too quickly if it happens before the main dish is

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    Great Wine: Merry Edwards Coopersmith Pinot Noir

    Excitement at my fingertips, with Coravin in hand, just to see how this wine—inarguably one of the finest and most quintessential Pinot Noirs of the Russian River Valley—has evolved. 2013

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    Great Wine: Chateau Leoville Barton Saint-Julien

    Old school drinkers of fine wines have this thing about waiting… and waiting—forever—to open up a special bottle of wine. Their obsession with waiting sometimes comes off like endless reels

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    FROM THE CELLAR | Great Wine: 2004 Sandrone Barolo Le Vigne

    With effulgent notes of red cherry, rose tea and peppery spice, one of my personal favorites of all Italian wine shines through with its brilliance of structure, acidity and silkiness

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    FORCE MAJEURE | Reviews of Current Wine Releases

    The estate vineyard of Force Majeure winery is located in Washington State’s Red Mountain winegrowing region. The majority of Washington wine production comes out of the southeast end of the

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    Great Wine: Petrolo Galatrona

    When Tesla dropped their very first 2018 Model 3 onto the electric car market just about a month ago, you couldn’t help but be wowed by the vehicle’s form factor—super

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    California, Wine
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    FROM THE CELLAR | Great Wine: 2011 Gemstone Estate Cabernet Sauvignon

    Wine producers who made a great Cab in the extremely challenging 2011 Napa Valley vintage made something truly special that most likely will never be repeated. There’s something about the

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    FROM THE CELLAR | Great Wine: 2003 Peby Faugeres Saint-Emilion

    If anyone orders Merlot I am leaving. I am not drinking fucking Merlot! — the notorious line from the ragged, lonesome character Miles in Alexander Payne’s movie Sideways that came

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    California, Wine

    Great Wine: Lucas & Lewellen Cabernet Sauvignon Clone 6

    You know the joy of an unexpected surprise?—like when you find a tattered $20 dollar bill in a pair of pants you just laundered, or receiving a beautiful bouquet of

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