Happy Brews-day
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Wynwood Brewing Company in Miami is celebrating an anniversary - a good occasion to raise a glass in salute of the sudsy things in life. Even if you're not in South Florida, a beer is probably in order.
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Seeing Pink
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The hot August sun, humid breezes off the Atlantic Ocean and a general summertime malaise has me seeing pink. I love rosé and despite legions of consumers who are still terrified of wines that are not watery white or garnet-red, there's a place for rosé on my table any day. Today's blog post contains three wines worth trying.
Read MoreA MOVI Feast
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MOVI is a group of winemakers who make it a part of their mission statement to "make wines with passion." This movement of independent vintners taking root in Chile is passionately making some of the best wine on the planet - meet the makers and, virtually at least, taste the wine, in Lyn's most recent post.
Read MoreStop Struggling
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The myth of the creative individual starving for her or his art, the idea that good work only comes out of struggle, has been perpetrated for centuries. Is it also a necessity for the art of wine? Must a grape vine struggle to realize its greatest destiny? Poppycock! sort of. And here's why, complete with a motivational plant video.
Read MoreGoing Nativa
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The French refer to a vine's rootstock as it's pied or "foot," and it takes only the slightest bit of literary license to believe that, like a person, you don't understand a wine until you've walked in its vines' shoes, or at least where the vine puts its "foot." Today, I walk with the vines in the vineyard's of Chilean organic winery Nativa.
Read MoreReconnoitering Roussillon
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Gerard Bertrand, retired rugby star with a lifelong passion for wine (and the street creds to back it up) talks about not just the vintage of the century but "the best vintage ever" in the South of France. Be forewarned - you will want these wines, but it's good to read up on them first.
Read MoreTasting Carinena
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In this post, we taste dazzling wines of Spain's old but up and coming DO Cariñena with sommelier super-star Raul Igual, twice named the Best Sommelier in Spain.
Read MoreThe Success of Taste
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The opening post of Lyn's blog Engaging the Senses opens a dialogue on the nature of taste and how taste can be the gateway to much more than wine and food. Sounds heavy, so we've kept it short!
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