One of the most highly anticipated wines of the tasting, the 1982, wasn't quite as rich or complex as the '89 and '90, though it was still a great wine.
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Most houses give the wine color by adding a portion of still, red Pinot Noir wine to the blend before the Champagne-to-be undergoes its second fermentation in the bottle, the one that produces the trapped bubbles.
But even with its history, the region is still considered a New World wine producer.
Some 13 years after it appeared in stores, his design for a canned rice-wine cocktail still looks fresh -- unadorned aluminum save for the brand name in different colors to indicate flavor.
What has remained is most of the staff, a pared-down but still fine California wine list and some sensational food.
There is a wine that once opened, will still taste fresh and fabulous decades later.
And while it's still acceptable to drink wine at a business lunch here in London, such indulgence is deeply frowned on even in New York.
He was and still is a moving force in the world of wine education.
Searching for images via phone pictures is still somewhat limited--a demo using a wine bottle label flopped, and Gundotra had to rely on taking a photo of an image on screen (doubtless, already inside Google's servers).
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He told BBC News the 92-year old was "almost completely blind and hard of hearing" but still loved "a good joke and a glass of wine".
"People still come out, but they will have a glass of wine less or maybe not at all, " he says.
But there's still a long way to go--there are thousands of wine brands available in America alone.
Grenache still, to many Americans, has a hint of pinkish jug wine about it, and only a few brave souls on the West Coast, like Bonny Doon, Alban, Edmunds St.
Back at the family estate, in a stunning valley surrounded by mountains, Mr Jonker sniffed and then sipped a sample of the Methode Cap Classique sparkling white wine that is still fermenting.
Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, a bottle of wine--or a lawsuit?
But in a country that exports more than 400 million liters of wine per year, there are still only around 15 qualified black winemakers.
Still, if you ask the scientists, wine has better grounds to call itself a health food than does, say, echinacea!
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