There are other wine-centric restaurants, and many other quality eateries that offer wine pairings with food.
No, the dodgiest performances by wine writers are generally reserved for impressing winemakers or other wine writers.
Today two other wine-producing areas received their own appellations: the Wahluke Slope viticultural area in Grant County, Washington, and the Texoma viticultural area in north central Texas.
While other wine categories have performed well at auction as interest in Burgundy and other regions has grown, Bordeaux has taken the brunt of the market pressure.
This performance outpaced other wine industry funds, (see table, below).
Mr. Parker's other now-legendary point of distinction was his ringing endorsement of the 1982 Bordeaux vintage when every other wine critic dismissed both the wines and the vintage.
Some Riojas can be aged more than 10 years in a bottle before they're released, and the very best achieve a subtle, mellow character unmatched by any other wine in the world.
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However, other wine growers around the world produce their own variants -- often available at cheaper prices -- which have placed the Champagne region's wine houses under increasing pressure in recent years.
But it's worth giving drinkers a little credit, since the odds of finding a tasty malbec are probably better than they are with any other wine grape, from any other country--at all price points.
Several dozen of them make superb wine, but even in exciting, small-crop vintages like 2003 Bordeaux as a whole may simply be producing too much wine, at too high a price, for a world with so many other wine options.
But, as with any other type of wine, taste Port side by side, against another one or a few others, and you will be amazed how the differences emerge.
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Grape wine needs to be only 50% grape wine (the rest can be made from other fruits), and Chinese wine needs to be only 50% from Chinese-produced juice.
Alas, like most wealthy drinkers, Australians are forsaking beer for wine and other unmanly tipples.
He grows his own grapes for wine and makes wine for other growers.
"Pomegranate juice contains the highest antioxidant capacity compared to other juices, red wine and green tea, " said Professor Michael Aviram, who led the team.
We tagged and cleaned it anyway, and later that day ate the tenderloin and a few other tasty bits in wine gravy with mushrooms.
Even with these complexities, consumers have already started to notice that the prices of some European goods have fallen, with local newspapers reporting price declines for cheese, wine and other consumables.
In a city that sees 48.8 million visitors each year, the best way to claim a corner of one's own may be to hide it behind a secret phone booth, underneath a pizza stand, beyond the kitchen, on the other side of the wine cellar or in a train car.
The points--100 denoting nirvana--are awarded by reviewers at Wine Spectator, Wine Advocate and other oenophilic publications.
He has also brought several other federal lawsuits over alleged wine counterfeiting.
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Germany is the traditional home of Eiswein but producers in Canada, such as Inniskillin, Jackson-Triggs and Mission Hill, have created an important export market and the country now makes more ice-wine than any other nation in the world.
We toast each other some more and swirl the wine around, watching the pectin leave trails on our glasses.
There are now 32 sister businesses finding art, wine, staff and other necessities.
Many of its people drink cheap homemade wine, vodka and other spirits.
Naughton's other plays included Spring and Port Wine, which was turned into a film starring James Mason, and The Family Way, which was filmed with John and Hayley Mills.
Mr. Gorman suggests to retailers that they should not make Pinotage their "first port of call" for customers looking for the wine but focus on other South African varietals.
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For much of the world's wealthy elite, classic cars are the most popular collectible asset with prices surging 395% over 10 years, beating other alternative investments such as fine wine and art.
Under such a scenario, money would only be effective insofar as it would be stable in value so that the producer of bread could confidently exchange biscuits for the future bottles of wine produced by the other inhabitant.
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