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Tasting Notes
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Dinner of Thursday, the 27th February 2014, was one to bid OC, California-based wine buddy, Clem Nieto, bon voyage on his trip back home. Upon Alex's suggestion, we held it in the venerable, old Tivoli of the Mandarin Oriental Manila, catching the ta
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Tasting Notes
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Quite different than the 2010 Bennett valley pn Brad and I had recently. Rich dark fruit...great intensity and power....balanced and very multi- faceted....great bottle of wine. Alc 13.9%
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General Wine Discussion
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From WineSearcher to the New York Post to the LA Times, I've been reading about this new device that turns water (and a few other ingredients) into wine. These articles claim the device "uses electric sensors, transducers, heaters and pumps to c
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Value Wines < $20
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Ciao, The 2012 Zolo, Red Blend (Malbec, Merlot, Cab and Bonarda) retails for $10.99. I was leery about this wine because I had their "93 points from the Wine Advocate" Cab and it was an 85 points at best wine. However, I went ahead and lo and b
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Travel and Offlines
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Going to a boondoggle in Phoenit in 2 weeks. Any good dining recs someone can give me. Good wine list obviously a positive. Thanks, Bryan
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General Wine Discussion
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They've just posted the participants on the two RhoneRanger Seminars: RRSeminars Looks like an interesting list of folks and wines being poured. Our very own LarrySchaffer as one Alas, some of them look like they be "god-forsaken" grapes, like
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General Wine Discussion
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I particularly like the use of whole-cluster ferments on Syrah for the rather Rhonish character it can often give those wines. For those who worship at the altar of terroir, I guess this is a bad thing. For those who worship at the altar of soulfulne
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