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Wine Taste TV's Ben Giliberti takes us to the Right Bank, with two merlot dominated Bordeaux offerings from 2004: Chateau D'Aiguilhe and La Tour Figeac.
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WINE 101: EDUCATION
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3:29
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04/13/2008
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Nobody balances oak with fruit better than the winemakers of Bordeaux. Tasting wines from the 2004 vintage of the prestigiuos Margaux region, Ben Giliberti samples two wines that are on two opposite ends of the oak spectrum. One wine shows lots of oak, one very little, but they're both delicious and both perfect examples of classic Margaux style.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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5:01
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01/31/2008
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Krug, Cristal, and Moet et Chandon are household names. But, small grower champagne has rapidly emerged in the marketplace? Ben Giliberti shares his thoughts on the advantages and drawbacks of champagne from grower-run champagne houses.
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TASTINGS: CHAMPAGNE/SPARKLING WINE
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2:30
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01/30/2008
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Opening champagne can be a risky affair. Ben Giliberti shows you how it's really done. Caution and finesse are the keys to success, so don't risk losing any delicious bubbly -or an eye.
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WINE 101: EDUCATION
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1:43
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01/30/2008
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Since winemaker Dominique Befve joined Chateau Lascombes, this legendary Margaux chateau has wowed the critics with its lush, drink me now style. Ben Giliberti asks whether this youthful appeal will pass the test of time.
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WINE TALK: A-F
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5:12
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01/30/2008
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Ben Giliberti tastes two 2005 Nuits St Georges from legendary Burgundy producer Henri Gouges. Les Chenes-Carteaux and Clos des Porrets are built for the long haul, and these two premier cru will be at their best in 10 to 15 years.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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4:08
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04/22/2008
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As the new head winemaker for the acclaimed Chateau Lagrange, Bruno Eynard knows more than a little about great Bordeaux wines. Now, he sits down with Ben Giliberti to discuss the recent vintages from this historic Grand Cru winery.
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WINE TALK: A-F
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3:50
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01/31/2008
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What the big deal about vintage champagne? Is it really worth the added cost? Ben Giliberti gives you the inside dope by tasting five distinctive and exciting vinatge champagnes.
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WINE REGIONS: TASTINGS
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9:05
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01/30/2008
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Ben Giliberti evaluates this 2005 red Burgundy from the up-and-coming domain of Jean Marc Pillot. Although Chassagne-Montrachet is better known for white wines, it's reds can be complex and extremely interesting. The Morgeot premier cru produces some of the best red wines of the appellation.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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2:32
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04/22/2008
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Ben Giliberti tastes an outstanding 2005 red Burgundy from the highly regarded Domaine Pousse d´Or. Along with Chambolle-Musigny, Volnay produces the most intensely fragrant wines of Burgundy. This Volnay-Caillerets has a remarkable bouquet of spring flowers, violets, and cherry- strawberry fruit.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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2:09
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04/22/2008
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Ben Giliberti tastes this 2005 red Burgundy from the prestigious domain of Prince de Merode and finds it remarkably ready to drink now. With forward fruit, the reds of Pommard are among the most popular Burgundies and this complex, superbly defined wine will improve in the cellar over the next five to seven years.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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3:06
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04/22/2008
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Ben Giliberti tastes this fabulous 2005 red Burgundy from the prestigious Prince de Merode. Corton is the only gran cru that produces both red and white Burgundies and although this wine is delicious now, it will continue to improve for a decade or more.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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2:31
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04/22/2008
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Ben Giliberti loves this powerful and age-worthy 2005 Clos Vougeot. Gros Frere is among the most conscientious Clos Vougeot producers and owns one of the best parcels of vineyard land, just beneath the slope of the legendary grand cru Musigny.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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2:15
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04/22/2008
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Ben Giliberti tastes this elegant 2005 red Burgundy from Chambolle-Musigny. Along with Volnay, Chambolle-Musigny produces the most fragrant wines of Burgundy, and this wine offers notes of violets and sweet fruit on the nose.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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3:27
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04/22/2008
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Ben Giliberti tastes this well structured 2005 red Burgundy from the commune of Morey Saint-Denis, which sits between Gevrey-Chambertin and Chambolle-Musigny. Just over the border from Gevrey-Chambertin, it offers a similarly powerful style in this award winning vintage.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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2:59
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04/22/2008
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Same vintage. Same winemaker. Ben Giliberti does a side-by-side tasting of the 2004 Fief de Lagrange and Chateau Lagrange. Saddled between two great vintages, do the 2004's deliver great quality and value?
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WINE REGIONS: BORDEAUX
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5:27
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01/31/2008
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The Sassicaia cabernet sauvignon blend from the Bolgheri has been wowing wine lovers since 1968. Now Ben Giliberti tastes the 2004 Sassicaia alongside its newest sibling: Le Difese, an everyday drinking wine from the same property and same winemaking team - for a fraction of the cost.
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WINE REGIONS: ITALY
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3:49
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05/23/2008
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Ben Giliberti tastes a 2005 red Burgundy from the commune of Gevrey-Chambertin. Some of the grandest wines of this commune are among the longest-lived red wines of Burgundy and require lots of aging to show their best. But this village level Gevrey-Chambertin has lots of bright cherry fruit and is deliciously ready to drink now.
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2:26
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04/22/2008
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Wine Taste TV's Ben Giliberti continues with his 2004 Bordeaux tastings with two moderately priced offerings: Haut Batailley and La Tour Carnet.
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04/13/2008
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With all those tiny bubbles, it's easy to forget that champagne is wine like any other, with lots of subtle nuances of flavor and aroma. Ben Giliberti gets to the heart of the matter by comparing chardonnay versus pinot noir based champagne.
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01/30/2008
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Ben Giliberti tastes this ready to drink 2005 red Burgundy. Although Beaune is best known for its white wines, this lighter style red from Bouchard Pere et Fils is quite appealing in 2005.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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04/22/2008
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Non-vintage brut is the backbone of the champagne industry, and for good reason. These elegant wines are blended from the best vintages and vineyards to give customers consistently delicious results. Ben Giliberti tastes through several small grower champagnes.
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7:18
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01/30/2008
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Ben Giliberti reviews this classy 2005 red Burgundy from Hudelot-Noellat. Many consider Vosne-Romanee to be the single best commune of Burgundy, offering a balance of power and subtlety allied with silky fruit.
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2:16
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04/22/2008
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It was served at the marriage of Alienor d'Aquitaine in the middle ages, praised by princes in the 18th century, and the favorite of an Austrian emperor almost two centuries ago. Now, Chateau d'Issan is considered a sexy and modern easy-drinking wine. Emmanuel Cruse talks about his favorite vintage in recent history.
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07/17/2007
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Annabelle Cruse-Bardinet comes from a long line of winemakers, so it's no surprise that she's making her own mark on Bordeaux at Chateau Corbin. A small estate in the heart of the Saint Emillion region, Corbin has been producing elegant, fruit-forward wines for years.
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01/31/2008
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For fine Bordeaux on a budget, second labels offer Saturday night style on a Tuesday night budget. Ben Giliberti tastes three Saint Julien offerings from 2004 with elegant style at a reduced price.
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WINE REGIONS: FRANCE
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01/31/2008
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Champagne is one of the world's most festive wines. But, make it pink and you've got an instant party! Ben Giliberti tastes three delicious champagnes that are pretty in pink.
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01/30/2008
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Angelo Gaja revolutionized winemaking in the Piedmont and sparked innovation throughout Italy. In this candid interview, Gaja shares his rich personal history and winemaking philosophy with Ben Giliberti.
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11/21/2007
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WineTasteTV talks with Cliff Lede, whose vineyard designated wines are all about the rock and roll and have gotten incredible wine reviews. See how his attitude toward the vineyards and dedication to quality have translated into an instant Napa Valley classic.
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11/19/2007
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Bordeaux winemaker John Kolasa talks with Wine Taste TV about the 2004 vintage for Rauzan Segla and Chateau Canon. Will the neglected vintage that offers great value today develop into greater wines after another decade in the bottle?
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04/13/2008
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Posted 04/05/2008
The initial reports from this week's 2007 vintage en primeur tastings in Bordeaux are kind of scary. Several commentators have described the vintage as inconsistent. If only that were true...
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THE NO SPIT ZONE
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Ben
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04/05/2008
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Posted 04/01/2008
In a recent e-mail to subscribers of his subscription only newsletter, wine critic Steve Tanzer of the International Wine Cellar finally tells us who drinks all that expensive White Burgundy - that we're all ...
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THE NO SPIT ZONE
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Ben
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04/01/2008
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Posted 03/28/2008
Lately, I've been worrying that new owners of Napa's Stags Leap Wine Cellars will change the style in order to curry favor with the big kahuna wine critics. I might find this latest statement from Jeff McBride, the new general manager, reassuring, except that I can't make heads or tails of it.
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Ben
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03/28/2008
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Posted 03/18/2008
Last night I enjoyed the wonderful 1998 Pol Roger vintage Brut Champagne, which cost me a hefty $80 a bottle. Tonight, I'm going to enjoy it again, but it will cost me absolutely nothing. That's because I'm not opening a second bottle, but will be finishing the one I started last night.
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Ben
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03/18/2008
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Posted 03/18/2008
Last night I enjoyed the wonderful 1998 Pol Roger vintage Brut Champagne, which cost me a hefty $80 a bottle. Tonight, I'm going to enjoy it again, but it will cost me absolutely nothing. That's because I'm not opening a second bottle, but will be finishing the one I started last night.
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Ben
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03/18/2008
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Posted 03/14/2008
Last night's French Wine Society tasting of the wines of the Margaux and Pauillac communes of Bordeaux revealed a rising star in the Margaux pecking order -- Chateau Rauzan-Segla. It trounced my sentimental favorite, Chateau Palmer, and and also beat out a number of well regarded wines from Pauillac.
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03/14/2008
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Posted 02/05/2008
To my immense dismay, I discovered 8 bottles of 1982 Clos du Marquis (the second wine of the illustrious Château Leoville Las-Cases Bordeaux ) buried in the back of my wine cellar the other day. I figured it had probably peaked around 1992, roughly ten years after the vintage, and was way over the hill. I decided to pop a cork anyway, to see just how far over the hill.
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02/05/2008
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Do the 2005 Bordeaux live up to the hype that's been building ever since the harvest? Ben Giliberti takes you behind the scenes at the Union of Grand Cru tasting to get the inside story from top Chateau owners.
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01/31/2008
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Posted 05/05/2008
It's official. Robert Parker has just declared 2005 to be "the greatest [Bordeaux] vintage produced during my 30-year career." That stunning pronouncement is not what's causing the buzz on his website's bulletin board [eRobertParker.com; free registration required] and, undoubtedly, among Bordeaux aficionados around the world, however.
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Posted 04/16/2008
The latest issue of the Wine Spectator [May 15, 2008] is devoted to America's most popular varietal -- -- surprise, surprise, Chardonnay. I'm not being arch here. This really is a surprise to me after all the Chardonnay bashing we've been subjected to over the last few years, particularly the A-B-C [Anything but Chardonnay] argot, which I've always suspected was launched by the producers of competing varietals such as Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, and Viognier.
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Ben
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Posted 04/15/2008
A founding father of the Napa Valley wine, Barney Rhodes, passed away earlier this month at the age of 88. He was truly one of the greats.
I had the pleasure of meeting Rhodes for the first time in the mid-1980s at the Napa Valley wine auction, where Rhodes was both an active bidder and a generous donor of rare wines from his extensive cellar. Despite his fame, he could not have been more down to earth and gracious to everyone around him.
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Chardonnay isn't just popular, it's one of the world's top wine choices. But why do we love chardonnay more than any other white wine varietal? As he kicks off his Grape Guide series, WineTasteTV's Chris Blanchard talks chardonnay basics: from the effects of oak to some of the best chardonnay food and wine pairings. Lobster risotto anyone?
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04/14/2008
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Since 1896, Franco Massolino's family has been producing some of the most powerful and expressive wines of the Piedmont. Now he shares his winemaking philosophy, and two of his latest offerings, with WineTasteTV.
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04/14/2008
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The aromatic organic herb gardens that flank the winery are simply spectacular.
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04/07/2008
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A few fine picks from this wine bar and restaurant in Evanston, IL.
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04/07/2008
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404 Wine Bar and Restaurant in Chicago's Lincoln Park gives a insight into a few favorites.
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Posted 03/28/2008
A recent survey on the Internet posed an intriguing question: if you were offered the gift of one superpower, what would it be? I'm pretty sure my choice would be time travel. (The winner, BTW, was the power to become invisible, which could also come in handy from time to time.) My first stop would probably be a trip to the Jurassic epoch to see some real live dinosaurs, followed by a visit to ancient Egypt to check out Cleopatra for myself.
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03/28/2008
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Brian Duncan shows you how to choose the right wine for what you're eating. It's all about the sauce, matching the intensity of the spices, versatility, and most of all your enjoyment.
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03/26/2008
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You shouldn't have to be a sommelier to get a great bottle of wine at a restaurant. Brian Duncan shares his top tips for ordering winning wine when you're eating out.
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Posted 03/26/2008
New World winemakers routinely warn us not to compare their wines to the corresponding wines from Europe. The soil, climate, and winemaking philosophies are just too different. This makes fair comparisons between Old World and New World wines impossible, they say.
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Posted 03/25/2008
From the moment that the 2005 Burgundies finished their bubbly fermentation in early 2006, there has been no question that this is one of the great red Burgundy vintages of all time. The only question has been whether this would also be a vintage that that would give both early as well is long-term drinking pleasure.
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Posted 03/21/2008
I have recently discovered a surefire method of knocking of 80% or 90% off the price of even the most hard to find, expensive wines.
There's just one little catch. To make it work, you already have to own hard to find, expensive wines. With that little caveat in mind, here's how it works.
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Posted 03/20/2008
Over the years it has become my habit to cruise right past the red Burgundy aisle in favor of Bordeaux at the local wine shop. It's not that I have found red Burgundy any less profound than Bordeaux on a glass by glass basis, but because Burgundy is more confusing, more inconsistent from vintage to vintage, and more expensive than Bordeaux. But that's changing.
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Posted 03/13/2008
If you're interested in 2005 Bordeaux my advice is to speak now or forever hold your peace. Prices are going nowhere but up.
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Posted 03/12/2008
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting a neighborhood Vietnamese restaurant for a casual dinner with a few friends. Normally when a waiter comes by with the wine list, I'm the first to grab for it because I enjoy choosing the wines, and even if I don't grab for it, the duty normally falls to me anyway as the resident wine guru. But not this night. Instead, I said bring me the beer list.
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Posted 02/26/2008
If Bordeaux has any sense at all, it should offer this ho-hum vintage at bargain prices. But I'm not counting on it. Bordeaux has a way of shooting itself in the foot when it comes to pricing such vintages. It overpriced the less than stellar 1997, 2002 vintages, and the wines sold poorly. It could easily do the same thing with 2007.
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What was once just a lumberyard is now home to the largest producer of the methode champanoise process of making Champagne in California. Learn how the Korbel brothers made the successful transformation from lumber to grapes in the late 1800s.
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Posted 02/14/2008
It always amazes me how with certain wines, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. My recent tasting in Washington, DC of Quintessa, a high-end Meritage blend from the Napa Valley, was a graphic demonstration of this interesting phenomenum.
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Posted 02/13/2008
In a great vintage like 2005, the so-called second label wines put out by many prestigious Bordeaux chateau can be great bargains. Second label wines come from the same vineyards as as in the states first wine, but typically costs about half as much. However, the better ones are closer in style and quality to the more expensive Grand Vin than you might imagine based strictly on the price difference.
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Posted 02/13/2008
In a great vintage like 2005, the so-called second label wines put out by many prestigious Bordeaux chateau can be great bargains. Second label wines come from the same vineyards as as in the states first wine, but typically costs about half as much. However, the better ones are closer in style and quality to the more expensive Grand Vin than you might imagine based strictly on the price difference.
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Nebbiolo, Chardonnay, Syrah, Refosco, Pinot Blanc...you name it, they're growing it. Bonnie Graves walks the Valley Floor with Nicholas Miller from Bien Nacido Vineyards and talks about "custom farming" and it's benefits.
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Crocker & Starr Cabernet Franc makes Chris Blanchard sing, packing all the richness and flavor intensity of Cabernet Sauvignon, but with a rustic edge. It's another insider find from Napa Valley.
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New Zealand trailblazer Kim Crawford talks about his pioneering and refreshing Sauvignon Blanc.
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Is the price tag the only difference between a bottle of vintage champagne and a non-vintage bubbly? Not necessarily. Discover why that bottle of 2001 Brut may or may not really be worth a few dollars more.
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David Ramey has a special touch with chardonnay. In this video he talks about his experiments with fermentation in oak and in stainless steel to achieve the perfect balance between fruit and oak.
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Posted 01/30/2008
What's the one thing that's more important than the score of a wine or its price? Lately, it's something called the QPR, which stands for Quality-Price-Ratio.
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Posted 01/28/2008
How do you judge the best wine at a tasting? Is it the one that gets the the 100 point score? The most expensive? The one that gives you the best buzz?
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Posted 01/26/2008
It looks like Napa Valley's Beaulieu Vineyards has finally figured out what to do with its celebrated Georges de Latour Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. It's building it a guesthouse. And a very nice one at that.
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Posted 01/24/2008
Chateau d'Issan is classified as a Margaux. So what the heck is Chateau Margaux?
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Posted 01/10/2008
Clos LaChance Winery of San Martin, California, has bought a mobile bottling line that will travel to small wineries and bottle their wine for them. They say it will allow small, family-owned wineries that can't afford their own expensive bottling operations to call their wines "estate bottled," which many consumers look for as a sign of quality.
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Aside from the natural beauty at the base of the Alps, the region of Piedmont is famous as the home to the noble Barolo wine. Enrico and Enrica Scavino lead us on a fascinating tour and tasting at their charming winery, Paolo Scavino Winery. Along the way, the Scavinos share their technological methods for taming the tannins of the nebiolo grape.
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What better place for a food revolution than Italy? Turin is the home of the international food movement known as Slow Food, and we get right to the bottom of it at the bi-annual food expo for this rapidly growing culinary craze at Salone del Gusto—literally translated, "The Big Tasting Room!"
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Usually when wine is like vinegar, it isn't a good thing—except, of course, when that vinegar is aged Balsamic! Celebrate a unique harvest in Modena, the Balsamic Vinegar capital of Italy, and discover how very much this rare, delicious vinegar has in common with fine wine.
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The discerning gourmets of Cape Town need a good meal just as much as anybody in Manhattan! Chef Garth Almazen walks us through the preparation of an exquisite meal at his Cape Town restaurant, Steenberg, located in what used to be the Cape region's oldest vineyard.
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