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Everyday Wines

Written By: Brian Freedman on Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Don't let high-end obsession blind you to good, inexpensive wine!

One of the biggest misconceptions about wine lovers is that they prefer complex, so-called serious wines at the expense of all others. That those who have the most well-stocked cellars or access to the rarest old wines will open up those bottles whenever they have the chance. That they will turn their noses up at simpler, less expensive bottles...read more

 

Affluent - The Wines of Piedmont

Written By: Brian Freedman on Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Piedmont is breaking out of relative obscurity and joining the ranks of the top regions.

Ask any connoisseur where the world's greatest wines are produced and you're likely to hear the same regions you would have ten or twenty years ago: Burgundy, Bordeaux, Napa - the usual suspects. But in recent years, the wines of Piedmont have made a deliciously persuasive case for inclusion in that group. World-class wines are nothing...read more

 

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A Sparkling Guide to Ringing in the New Year

Written By: Brian Freedman on Thursday, December 27, 2007

Grab Your Wallet and Head For That Sparkling White Isle. New Year's Is Here, and That Means It's Champagne Season.

New Year's. I don't know about you, but practically my entire group of friends has silver shoes buffed and waiting by the door to usher out 2007. Whether you are having stepchild twitchings regarding said 2007 or simply the...

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WBW 40: Rosenblum Cellars Petite Sirah 2005

Written By: Brian Freedman on Friday, December 14, 2007

Rosenblum Cellars Petite Sirah 2005 "Heritage Clones"

This wine exhibits all the inky color and concentration you’d expect from a Rosenblum Petite Sirah, though at 14.4% alcohol, it’s lower-octane than a number of their other bottlings of this varietal. (The 2004 Mendocino County Eagle Point Vineyard, for example, is an almost Port-like 15.5%; the 2005 Sonoma County Kick Ranch rings in at a brawny...read more

 

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Holiday Wine Buying Guide

Written By: Brian Freedman on Friday, November 30, 2007

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah or another holiday - we have you covered.

Buying wine for other people has never been an easy trick. It has to do with all the lifestyle associations that are inevitably heaped onto that poor, unsuspecting bottle. Indeed - and inexplicably - the kind of fermented grape juice you choose to drink and give says just as much about you these days as your last name, your choice of footwear,...read more

 

Veuve Clicquot Vertical Limit

Written By: Brian Freedman on Thursday, November 15, 2007

Priceless vintages safely stored with the help of Porsche Design Studio.

Veuve Clicquot, one of the grandest, most highly respected Champagne houses in a region with no shortage of venerable producers, is about to change the way you look at vintage bubbly.

In honor of the new Vertical Limit cellar created by Porsche Design in partnership with Veuve Clicquot, twelve of the finest vintage Champagnes have been specially...

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The Cost of Prestigious Wines

Written By: Brian Freedman on Friday, October 26, 2007

Is it Worth Spending?

There are some producers whose reputations so far exceed nearly everyone else’s that you can almost justify spending any amount of money on one or two of their precious bottles. We all know their names—Petrus, Latour, Screaming Eagle—and in wine circles, they tend to be looked at as wholly different creatures than their more ordinary vinous...read more

 

Big Bucks

Written By: Brian Freedman on Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Great Wine Doesn't Have to Break the Bank

The amount of money wine lovers are willing to spend on a bottle seems, these days, to be creeping inexorably northward. Whatever has caused this—wine’s increasing popularity in this country, the incessant drumbeat of glowing reviews and articles about the next have-to-buy-it vintage—fewer people than ever before bat their eyes at bottle prices...

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Transitions

Written By: Brian Freedman on Thursday, September 13, 2007

The End of The Pink

If I had any question that summer was over before this week, the current state of my wine cellar drove it home: For the first time since this spring, there is no more rosé to enjoy.

There are whites, sure, and even a bottle of Vinho Verde. But of the pink stuff—well, I’m tapped. It’ll now be another 10 or 11 months before I stock up again,...

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A Match Made in Heaven

Written By: Brian Freedman on Friday, September 7, 2007

Pairing Propriety and the Lack Thereof

At a wonderful new wine bar and restaurant outside Philadelphia earlier this week, as I was asking the sommelier what I should pair with half a roasted chicken, I realized something. Or, to be more accurate, the sommelier made a point that I’ve been thinking about for quite some time now.

After pausing for a second and then rattling off what my...

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