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Just Say 'No' To Overblown Chardonnay

Written By: Brian Freedman on Thursday, January 17, 2008

I cannot tell you how often my wine students claim a great dislike for Chardonnay. It's too buttery, they say, or too oaky. And while they certainly have a point-for a long time, too many Americans associated Chardonnay with bad Chardonnay-they almost universally change their opinion once they are exposed to the real stuff. Chardonnay, after...read more

 

Keep An Open Mind

Written By: Brian Freedman on Friday, December 21, 2007

Australia

Perhaps it's a natural result of all the mass-produced wine coming out of Australia these days, those candy-sweet, adorably-labeled, perplexingly-beloved bottles that Americans can't seem to get enough of. Whatever the reason, far too many people look at Australian shiraz as some sort of monolith, a universally-styled wine that is the...

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The Human Factor in Wine

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

I recently returned from a trip to Piemonte, and was struck yet again, as I am every time I visit a major wine region, by the human factor in wine. This is not a statement of the obvious: Too often these days we dehumanize wines, drinking them in the vacuum of blind tastings, scoring them as we would any other commodity. And while I am the...read more