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    Great Wine: Lang & Reed Cabernet Franc

    You have to be kind of nuts, maybe even borderline megalomaniacal—like Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the AC electrical current, or Preston Tucker, the creator of the Tucker 48 automobile,

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    California, Wine
    Australia, Wine

    Great Wine: John Duval “Plexus”

    Grange. That name has reached almost mythical status in Aussie wine. As Chief Winemaker, John Duval was the man who took over the making of the myth of Penfolds winery’s

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    Great Wine: Stephane Aviron Chenas (Beaujolais)

    My pick for a perfect summer red is Beaujolais. The overwhelming amount of wine made in the French Beaujolais area, just south of Burgundy, is from the Gamay /gaˈmā/ grape.

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    France, Wine
    Israel, Wine

    GREAT WINES OF ISRAEL: FLAM | JUDEAN HILLS

    Where in the world does a winery have to deal with a war being fought across the border from their vineyards? If not for the miracle of a cease-fire declared

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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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    Germany, Wine
    Israel, Wine

    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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    Great Wine: Luigi Einaudi Dogliani

    Dogliani is the new face of Dolcetto just like Johnny Depp is the new face of Christian Dior. Dolcetto [doll-chet-oh] is the decidedly non-noble grape of the noble northwestern Italian

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    Italy, Wine
    Argentina, Wine

    Great Wine: Susana Balbo Brioso

    True Blood may be off the air, but the synthetic blood for vampires called “True Blood” is still out on the streets. It’s now manufactured in Argentina, in the heart

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    GREAT WINES OF ISRAEL: RECANATI | HEFER VALLEY

    Israel can lay claim, as evidence suggests, to be the first major winemaking region in history. The oldest wine cellar on record dates back to 1700 BC, discovered in the

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    Israel, Wine
    Spain, Wine

    Great Wine: Aalto Ribera Del Duero

    Quintessential Spanish wine. From a brutal, desolate environment at some of the highest vineyard peaks in Europe―where microclimates thrash, scorch, parch, freeze and otherwise test the fortitude of the venerable

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