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"corked" - or "tainted" ? Ric	by Joseph Coulter	5	303
"Critics are not objective." (recent article) [email protected]	by Michael Nielsen[_4_]	10	935
"Di Bortoli Noble One dessert wine" aesthete8	by aesthete8	1	301
"Did Gavin Newsom Dine in Napa with Lobbyists During COVID?" gggg gggg	by Dan the Man	1	841
"Don’t just make wine for the rich.” [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	366
"Drinkable" wine Elko Tchernev	by Hunt	24	303
"Drought down under" (recent NEWSHOUR segment) aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	311
"DuMOL Russian River Chard" aesthete8	by lleichtman	1	409
"Easy Entertaining With Michael Chiarello" DickCheney Shotgun FaceVictim Mr Hole	by Default User	11	184
"Educating Peter..." (new book) [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	305
"Efforts to create transgenic grapevines are well advanced, andtransgenic wine yeasts are already starting to appear in American winemaking." [email protected]	by Emery Davis	1	302
"Everyday Guide to Wine" aesthete8	by gtr	1	530
"Eyrie wines have always been exemplars of finesse and nuance ratherthan inky-dark power, bullying fruitiness and heavy-handed oakiness." [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	379
"Fake French wine rampant in China" (recent article) greg lee	by Emery Davis[_3_]	2	659
"Falcon Crest" comes to Virginia ;) [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	336
"Finding good values in American wines is not easy." aesthete8	by DaleW	1	494
"France's Top Wines Face Climate 'Tipping Point'" (recent article) [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	425
"Free of the government’s shackles, smart farmers grew entrepreneurial wings, introduced modern techniques and began selling to parts of the world previously unimaginable to them." [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	366
"French researchers tested this by using an odourless dye to colourwhite wine red. The wine tasters who tried the result used typical red winedescriptors, suggesting that its colour played a significant role in how theythought of it." [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	545
"French vintners, for instance, have seen the taste and alcoholcontent change for some wines, and are worried they could see morecompetition as climate change makes areas of northern Europe friendlier to wine-growing." aesthete8	by aesthete8	5	962
"French wine region may feel heat" Mike	by Mike	0	433
"Great Wine Capital" of the World st.helier[_3_]	by greybeard	14	621
"Gyropalette" in Spanish? Michael Pronay	by Santiago	11	1,019
"Hard as it may be to accept, pleasure is not the measure of finewine." [email protected]	by PK[_2_]	4	242
"He argues that no one has a palate superior to anyone else's, andthat there's nothing wrong with liking wines many experts consider tacky...Healso thinks traditional tasting notes comparing wine to berries or chocolateare useless in helping mos [email protected]	by Vilco[_1_]	1	256
"He attributes Napa’s blockbuster style to a desire of winemakers to please their wealthy winery owners with high point scores from magazines such as Wine Spectator or Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate." [email protected]	by graham	1	470
"How global warming is changing winemaking" aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	431
"How to Taste Wine" [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	253
"I also think that mature wines have much more savory tones thanyoung wines, which lean much on fruit, thus making mature wines muchfriendlier to a varied menu." aesthete8	by st.helier[_3_]	8	496
"I believe that most drinkers no longer know what a “classic” cabernet sauvignion tastes like." aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	298
"If winemakers make wine that is indelibly true to a place, but ifvery few people like it, does it matter how well the wine represents theplace?" [email protected]	by Mark Lipton[_1_]	1	587
"In Pursuit of Balance' (IPOB) [email protected]	by [email protected]	1	230
"Is your cabernet a fake?" [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	163
"It all depends what you mean by austere." [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	1,131
"Leaders sipped a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo before Berlusconi pouredBarack Obama a glass of Cerasuolo Hedos Cantina Tollo 2008, the president'sfavourite wine..." aesthete8	by FoxP2 Squared[_2_]	3	444
"Let them drink wine!" aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	540
"Los Angeles County lifts restrictions on operating hours for bars,breweries and wineries" gggg gggg	by gggg gggg	0	876
"Modern Industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchalmaster into the great factory of the industrial capitalist." aesthete8	by Mark Lipton[_1_]	5	598
"Much to savor in Turin's rolling Piedmont" Mike	by Mike	0	262
"off dry" Vilco[_1_]	by Mike Tommasi	5	107
"Our source also adds that Teresa, who is planning a launch party forher Fabellini wine on October 7........... aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	369
"Points" discussion in today's SF Chronicle Max Hauser	by Max Hauser	0	262
"Quality, after all, is not subjective. Whether a wine is of goodquality is objective. Whether you like it or not is a different and parallelsubject." [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	230
"Reading between the Wines" (book) aesthete8	by santiago	6	1,788
"Real Housewife Ramona Singer to Release a Pinot Grigio" aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	419
"Really good tasters never confuse (or conflate) acuity with judgment..." [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	384
"Restaurants mark up wine by a lot more than you might expect." aesthete8	by Argentobarbus	10	475
"School of Wine..." (recent NEWSHOUR segment) aesthete8	by AyTee	1	493
"Scientists are growing grapes in space to save Earths wine supply" gggg gggg	by gggg gggg	0	805
"Some winemakers believe that stems only add bitterness and harshtannins, whereas others believe it assists in aeration during fermentationand lends an aromatic spiciness that cannot be denied." aesthete8	by aesthete8	2	441
"SOMM, the movie" [email protected]	by lleichtman	1	314
"Strong sense, united to delicate sentiment, improved by practice,perfected by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitlecritics to this valuable character; and the joint verdict of such, whereverthey are to be found, is the tru [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	282
"Terroir don't mean s___." ( 1 2 3) [email protected]	by Miles	113	2,926
"Terroir" (Korean tv drama about wine) [email protected]	by [email protected]	0	261
"Thankfully, they taste more like the French examples I used ratherthan the Australian." j car	by Joseph Coulter[_8_]	2	423
"Thanksgiving Wine: What to Drink" aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	271
"That wine has no terroir" butch burton	by Vino	22	462
"The Best Web Sites For Wine Lovers" aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	338
"The club has only one membership requirement: having tried at least100 different varieties of grape." aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	242
"The fact is that bad vintages are now almost unknown." [email protected]	by Michael Nielsen[_4_]	2	150
"The grape, as well as being an acquired taste, also is quite trickyto grow, winemakers say." aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	423
"The more you express the character of the land, the more you aredoing your job." aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	307
"The perfect wine match for Chinese food" aesthete8	by Godzilla	5	677
"The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr...." Dee Dee	by DaleW	1	253
"The wine was sweetened with honey and spiced with juniper, mint,cinnamon bark and other herbs." [email protected]	by graham	1	573
"There are standards by which we can judge a wine, or musical score, or painting to be better than another, and these reflect discernible properties of those objects, though it may take practice and experience to recognize them." [email protected]	by Mydnight	2	376
"There were Pinot Noirs from different parts of Burgundy..." aesthete8	by DaleW	1	347
"This is a great wine. But I can't stand it." [email protected]	by miles	6	253
"TN": Meaning Of ? Robert11[_2_]	by DaleW	2	260
"TN": Meaning Of ? Robert11[_2_]	by Robert11[_2_]	0	131
"Too many of today's wines, especially the reds, are simply too muchof a good thing--too powerful, too concentrated, too intense...A certaingrace is lacking." [email protected]	by graham[_4_]	1	182
"Traditionally, Old World wines tend to be earthier, with loweralcohol levels and higher acidity, while New World wines tend to be morefruit-forward with lower acidity and higher alcohol levels." aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	410
"Two Washington wines — a 2008 Long Shadows Botrytis Riesling and a 2005 Quilceda Creek cabernet sauvignon — were served at a Whitehouse state dinner last week when Pres. Obama hosted China Pres. Hu Jintau." aesthete8	by lleichtman	3	570
"Two wines from the same case are just as likely to be different as similar." aesthete8	by Mike Tommasi	5	431
"US surpasses France to become largest wine consumers in the world" aesthete8	by aesthete8	0	1,090