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The Misunderstood Genius that is Fino Sherry

Steve De Long
Por Steve De Long

This article appearded in the February/March 2007 edition of Connections Magazine (Ireland) There can't be a more misunderstood type of wine than Sherry. People tend...

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The World's Most Outrageous Wines 2006

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If a wine shouts in the forest does anyone hear it? In the din of the global wine glut only the loudest, boldest, most shameless...

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Grower Champagne

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This article appeared in the December 2006 edition of Connections Magazine (Ireland) Pernod Ricard recently announced the creation of the world's most expensive champagne. At...

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Wine Gift Guide Extravaganza

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In this article we grapple with two eternal dilemmas: what holiday gift to get people who really like wine and what to call people who...

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Wine Pairings with British Foods

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This is the time of the year when everyone asks the eternal holiday question: what wine goes with turkey? Since this subject has already been...

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Pimp My Wine

Steve De Long
Por Steve De Long

If you don't watch a lot of TV you may have never heard of the MTV show Pimp My Ride, where old jalopies are transformed...

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Drinking Old Wines

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Here we track down and taste a 1953 Leoville Barton St. Julien, a 1959 Huet Le Haut-Lieu Demi-Sec Vouvray and a 1971 Schloss Reinhartshausen Hattenheimer...

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The French Just Don't Get It

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Warning: Irony alert! Items in red italics are used ironically. Please don't send any more hate mail. I love the French, French wine and French...

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How to be a Foodie

Steve De Long
Por Steve De Long

Now that there are more fat than starving people in the world, there must be a lot more foodies as well. But what's a foodie?...

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