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Brian Freedman: Welcome to Classic Wines TV brought to you by Classicwines.com, I am your host Brian Freedman. Now, on the show we often spend a lot of time talking about individual bottles, about pairing wines with food, interesting stuff, I would lik... read more

Michael Zimberg:  What would Mikey drink?  Because friends of ours would call all the time and say, I am making this for dinner, what would Mikey drink with that? I have been passionate about wine a long time. So Philip Togni Vineyards, a sma... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to Classic Wines TV, I am your host Brian Freedman. Today, continuing our discussion on how to put together a great wine collection and build a cellar we will be discussing the importance of region when it comes to where the gra... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to ClassicWines TV, I am your host Brian Freedman. Today, continuing our discussion on how to put together a great wine collection, I would like to discuss a bottle that's been sitting in my cellar since it was released, and now... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to ClassicWines TV, I am your host Brian Freedman. Today, on the showdown, two Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs from the great vintage of 2006. I have had some really, really good experiences with the 06 Vintage Pinots from Willame... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to Classic Wines TV, I am your host Brian Freedman. Today, continuing our discussion of how to build a great wine collection I would like to discuss a category of wine that a lot of people - how do we want to say this, they scre... read more

Bottle #00110. This is an outstanding red burgundy that delivers the goods. It is a lovely ruby red, with a nose of some damp earth, mushroom funk, and musty dark summer fruit. It is fine as silk, with wild blackberries, wild flowers, and incredible fi... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to classicwines.com. Today, we will be talking about bottle closures. Now, this is used to be very, very simple, you had one of these things; you had a cork. These have worked for a very long time indeed. The problem is they hav... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to ClassicWines TV brought to you by classicwines.com, I am Brian Freedman. Now today we will be talking about dessert wines, although lets get this out of the way right off the bat, not all dessert wines are best enjoyed with d... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to ClassicWines.com, well today we will be discussing bottle shapes. Now, there are many different shapes of wine bottle, there is Riesling, tall narrow ones, there are champagne and sparkling one bottles, obviously, thicker gla... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to ClassicWines TV brought to you by classicwines.com, I am Brian Freedman. Now you are probably wondering, why I am standing in front of a map? Well that is because we are we going to discuss the issues involved with shipping w... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to the classicwines.com Tawny Port showdown. I am your host, Brian Freedman. You are probably wondering, why are we drinking Tawny Port in the summer time? Well, easy answer, because there are few things that go better with a ci... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to classicwines.com, where today we will be discussing how to navigate a wine label. Now this is not necessarily quite as simple as you might think it is because there's a lot of information on these things that depending upon t... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to the Classic Wines Minute, brought to you by classicwines.com, I am your host Brian Freedman. Today we are here at Brasserie Cognac in New York with Sommelier Alessandra Rotondi. Alessandra Rotondi: Hi! Brian Freedman: I have ... read more

Brian Freedman: Alright guys, so the white wine, my wine, taste the wine, with a little bit of a cheese. I like what's happening between this wine and cheese. I think the cheese on its own is less ripe than it sometimes can be. This kind of cheese, thi... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to the classicwines.com Cabernet Showdown, I am your host, Brian Freedman. Today we are going to be talking about California Cab, but maybe in a little bit of a different context than you might be used to. California Cab is real... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to the Classic Wines Minute brought to you by classicwines.com; I am your host Brian Freedman. Today we are in New York at Brasserie Cognac and we are joined by Chef Florian Hugo. Florian Hugo: Hello! Brian Freedman: Hello, and ... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to the classicwines.com Côtes du Rhône Showdown; I am your host Brian Freedman. Today we will be tasting what I still think despite the weak dollar against the Euro is one of the best values coming out of Europe C&oc... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to the Classic Wines Minute brought to you by classicwines.com; I am your host Brian Freedman. We are here at Brasserie Cognac in New York with Christian Holthausen International House Communications Director of Piper-Heidsieck ... read more

Brian Freedman: Welcome to the Classic Wines Minute brought to you by classicwines.com; I am your host Brian Freedman. And today we are here with Romany Reagan, our "Wine in the City" columnist. Romany, first of all, thank you for joining us... read more