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Ever looked at a European wine label and wondered what’s in there? Then Wine-Flair.com is just for you. It’s all about wine education and appreciation, written in plain language.

Please Help Haiti

I figure that if I can afford to drink wine – even bottles costing only ten or twelve bucks – I can certainly send at least that much off to The Red Cross to help the victims of this terrible disaster. So I just did, and I hope my fellow wine

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Wine Of The Week-Good Pinot Grigio

I know, I know, everyone reaches for Santa Margherita at a holiday party or a restaurant. Hey, they spend a lot of money on advertising and the brand name is well known. But between us, it’s not really good wine, and it’s absurdly expensive for what you get. That’s why

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Happy Birthday Marines!

The United States Marines celebrate their 234th birthday today, November 10, 2009. Resolution of the Continental Congress: “That two Battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one Colonel, 2 Lt. Colonels, 2 Majors, and Officers as usual in other regiments, that they consist of an equal number of privates with

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Wine Of The Week – November 9, 2009

This week’s WINE OF THE WEEK is Kunde Family Estate, Chardonnay Nu 2007. Now, if you like sweet, caramel-y, very soft and way-buttery Chardonnay, you won’t like this one. BUT if you like fresh, crisp Chardonnay, a wine in which you can taste the fruit – crisp apples and pears

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Ten Tips to Get Good Restaurant Wine Service!

1. Wine should always be served in a clean, spotless glass with no lint. If you get a dirty glass, send it back. Dirty glasses aren’t fun to drink from, and soap film gives a nasty taste; it also kills Champagne bubbles. 2. Speaking of glasses, the type and size

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Great Wine From “The Mondavis Of Chile”

I had the pleasure of having lunch – and more importantly, tasting wines – last week with the winemaker of Chile’s Vinedos Emiliana along with the estate’s owner, Jose Guilisasti. I was prepared to be underwhelmed, but I was pleasantly, even astonishingly, surprised at how good the wines are.  I

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Stoutridge Vineyard: A New York Phenom!

Visiting wineries is one of my favorite pastimes, and I suspect, since you’re visiting this site, that it may be one of yours, too. Usually I go somewhat far from New Jersey to do that – Sonoma or Spain, Sicily or Sancerre. Yet right in my own backyard, or perhaps

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When A Wine “Award” Is Not An Award

A couple years ago, The New York Times writer Amanda Hester noticed that it wasn’t real tough for restaurants to get a wine list “Award of Excellence” from Wine Spectator magazine.  I want to mention it here because it illustrates a point that needs making when you’re thinking about what

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Wine Shorts, September 18, 2009

Study Shows Ratings Numbers DO Influence Tasting Experience I’ve said more than a few times on WineFlair and elsewhere that wine ratings by “the big guys” (and gal) such as Parker, Robinson, Broadbent, Suckling etc. will obviously and hugely influence the views of people who taste those wines and know

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The Pioneers: Jack And Jamie Davies Of Schramsberg

“For more than a year now they had been searching: on the highway, near the river, atop oaky knolls that rose abruptly from the valley floor, up wild canyons, and along the spines and scarps of two rugged coastal ranges. What they were looking for was not easily put into

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Wine Cooler, Anyone?

No, I don’t mean a Bartles and Jaymes Strawberry Wine Cooler from a carry-out outside the university. You should not buy those under ANY circumstances. They were good commercials, though, right? As for a wine keeper, wine refrigerator, wine cellar, wine cabinet – whatever you want to call it – yes,

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Stepford…Wines?

Most people who drink wine but don’t “follow” it haven’t heard of Michel Rolland and probably won’t be interested in the controversy that occasionally swirls around him. But he’s a symbol of how the world of wine is consolidating, and the degree to which some winemakers are influencing wines to

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@SiliconVlyBank's annual "State of the #Wine Industry:" "After thirty years of moving up and to the right, it is foreign to see wine industry metrics flatten out. This isn’t like any era before, so the solution will not be straightforward. There is hard work ahead."… https://x.com/i/web/status/1882829411826716966

What’s #Impossible is to believe that anyone, much less a #vegan would eat this freezer-burned ice-encrusted #hockeypuck. Pure💩. @pissedconsumer @ImpossibleFoods https://x.com/WineFlair/status/1875324021967090115/photo/1

#2025 is almost here. If you're looking for a #SparklingWine alternative to #Champagne for New Year's Eve, #CAVA is your drink! More about this fabulous #Spanish sparkler! Enjoy! https://www.wine-flair.com/2013/10/04/cava-is-cool/

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