"I stood behind my wine as I always do and gave them a refund, " Greenberg said.
And my wine shop probably hadn't even heard of wines from Washington, Oregon, South Africa, Austria or the south of France.
It's a great moment in cinema and one of my favorite wine-drinking scenes of all time.
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That's certainly true of my local wine shop, Amanti Vino in Montclair, N.
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Incidentally, it is also my favorite wine to match with dark chocolate.
Instead, it took a visit to my parents and a wine-fueled kitchen confessional, during which it became apparent my irrational fear that the dough would fail to rise was inherited.
When I think New Jersey and wine, the thing that pops into my mine is Boone Farm Apple Wine.
While the wines' voluptuous texture matched the steak's richness, their minerality proved a bit of a jarring contrast, particularly in the case of the 2011 Chidaine Vouvray Les Argiles. (A minerally white just isn't as versatile as a minerally red.) But they both came admirably close to universal usefulness, and I was quite pleased with my food-and-wine-matching experiment, not to mention the advice of my experts.
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Amanti Vino was one of several places where I shopped for the wines for my tasting (Crush Wine on 57th Street in Manhattan is another top German wine source).
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Here are my recommendations for that wine enthusiast repertoire.
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When I looked at le carte des vins at La Tupina, a roadside restaurant, I surfed dozens of wines, both red bordeaux and white bordeaux that I had never heard of despite my extensive cellar and wine library.
The company insists that after careful taste testing, no one will be able to tell the difference and it will taste exactly the same, but given some of the super tasters I have met through my work in the wine and spirits world, I find it virtually impossible that such a change in alcohol content can go unnoticed, especially with no additives to compensate.
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For those who don't take their wine consumption as seriously as my friend, I can understand the reticence of spending hundreds of pounds on wine that needs, in some cases, as long as 10 years evolution to drink at its best.
The experience of the older wine registered in my head a lot more, too.
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"I see my job as finding a wine that helps complete what a dish is giving you, " Ntezo says.
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My friend Willie, a wine-bar aficionado, was particularly appreciative of the categorization.
And, for a moment, consider what I as a New York City resident can readily find on shelves in the wine shops near my apartment.
My personal favorites are Bordeaux wine glasses or small brandy snifters.
Here's how the wine selection in my neighborhood package store stacked up 20 years ago: Most of the shelf space was devoted to jug wines (Riunite, Carlo Rossi, Almaden, etc.).
The bright, zippy white gets my vote as the most Mediterranean wine in the world.
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One of my favorite partnerships was with a wine bar and a local hip-hop group.
"My best experiences with South African wine have been Chenin Blanc and Vin de Constance, " he explained in an email.
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As the 14 undergraduates from Cambridge and Oxford receive their final briefing before heading to the tasting room, some of my team, a collection of wine critics, television wine experts and newspaper columnists, look decidedly uneasy.
Popular Facebook groups like "Moms Who Need Wine" and " OMG I So Need a Glass of Wine or I'm Going to Sell My Kids" have tens of thousands of fans, inspiring one winemaker to create a label of wine especially for stressed-out moms.
"The more I visited vineyards on my travels and got to know the wine growers and the regions, the more disillusioned I became with French wine, " he says.
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