I'd forgone the wine, but cold water freshly filtered from a nearby stream was just as sweet.
Up and down the D-2 wine road wobbled minivans and rented Renaults sardine-packed like clown cars with blue-suited wine luminaries.
We stuffed it with lemon zest, handfuls of rough-chopped fennel and garlic, a thick mat of chopped rosemary and a staggering amount of juniper berries that had been gathered from the woods and we'd crushed with wine bottles.
Her knowledge of wine and Napa Valley grew during those restaurant years, when she'd visit to attend wine auctions and meet with winery and restaurant owners to pick which wines to serve.
Even more exciting, however, was how often he'd taste a great wine only to discover that it's made in massive volumes--which means wallet-friendly prices.
Dottie felt so strongly about the differences that John put a laptop in front of her and asked her to write her thoughts immediately after we'd tasted the older wine.
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The home also has a hidden art vault, a projection 3-D movie theater and a wine cellar accessed with fingerprint identification.
It was unlike any wine I'd ever tasted, and from a grape I'd never encountered before the Fer Servadou thought to be a cross between Gamay and Cabernet.
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Roberta Morrell of Morrell Wines in New York said she appreciated it when someone brought a wine she'd never tasted before to her home in the Hamptons.
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But it had the characteristic pear, apple and honey flavors of his beloved Loire Chenin, and it was the first wine he'd tasted since his capture some two years before.
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Italian wine expert Ian d'Agata is a frequent contributor.
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If he or she were a serious wine drinker, I'd bring something particularly tailored to his or her palate.
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It was as if I'd entered some sort of alternate universe where wine journalists could drink like leveraged-buyout kings.
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But if Kokomo came on the radio at night when my friends and I were driving around, three or four wine coolers deep, we'd never turn the dial and might even turn up the volume because we loved to hate it.
When Mr. Massoud commented favorably on the wine, I asked if he'd consider making a Rkatsiteli too.
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Sip wine or beer, and nibble on hors d'oeuvres as you kick off your boots and reflect on your day.
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Yet you'd be hard-pressed to believe that the high-scoring wine critic owns a stash of B's.
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When its wine buyer finally agreed, he added that he'd be leaving for Bordeaux in two days.
One of my girlfriends admitted recently she was afraid to tell the women in her mother's group she sometimes has a glass of wine to calm herself down because she thought they'd disapprove.
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"When it was lunchtime, I would see the stall-holders bring out their tables, bottles of Champagne, red wine and copious amounts of food, which they'd eat and drink in an atmosphere of laughter and shouting, " he says.
In a month of scarfing down cheesesteaks and bottles of wine, Magnussen packed on 27 pounds and decided he'd rather be in southern California.
The Gallo brothers, great businessmen in the wine trade, once got pushed to answer how they'd compare their gallon jug concoctions with vintage Bordeaux.
Other hormetic agents are, in mild doses, sunlight (vitamin D), fasting (calorie restriction) and their molecular mimic, red wine (resveratrol pills).
As twilight arrived, Mittal Naidoo laid out dainty hors d'oeuvres (eggplant toasts and cauliflower fritadas), poured everyone a glass of wine and got down to cooking.
While Chardonnay grew to fame as "white Burgundy, " Pinot Gris began turning up in odd corners of the wine world under murky aliases: In France alone, Pinot Gris is also known as Tokay d'Alsace, Pinot Beurot in Burgundy and Malvoisie in the Loire.
Soon, I'd crashed the Valdiserra family table for dessert, as Franco continued pushing everything from chocolates to a sweet Sicilian dessert wine.
As part of the celebration, one could have a picture taken with the former and current mayors (after you relinquished your wine glass, which I was reluctant to do, because it contained some excellent single malt I'd brought along in a flask, fearing, correctly, that Gracie Mansion, where the events was held, would be serving only wine).
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