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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 Wines of Hospice du Rhone

The wine world has its own version of a Star Trek convention or Comic Con. It’s called Hospice du Rhone—three glorious days in Paso Robles, California, of letting your wine

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Great Wines of Italy You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

There’s another Renaissance happening these days in the fabled Italian wine country of the Old World. To experience it fully, however, you have to look in places where you’re probably

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Great Wine: Selbach Oster Riesling feinherb

If there’s one wine that might change your mind about Riesling, this might be it. Most casual wine drinkers choose Riesling because they want something sweet. Sommeliers and other wine

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Great Wine: Cleto Chiarli Vecchia Modena Lambrusco

Nothing sets the mood like a great Lambrusco.  Lambrusco is northern Italy’s version of a sparkling pink rosé, and when it’s good—it’s so so good. Good Lambrusco will lift up

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Great Wine: La Spinetta Il Rose di Casanova

Truly, one of the most enchanting rosés out there. When you think rosé, the mind goes to France or, now, even America—but Tuscany is not generally the first that comes

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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: Ridge Lytton Springs

A wine that speaks with as distinctive a voice as Vin Scully calling a Dodger game. Are there many more things as American as that? Truly, as characterful and engaging

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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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