Of course, in France there is no Thanksgiving, and Chablis is most famous there as the wine of choice with seafood.

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What Hedges fails to recognize, however, is that critical wine rating has grown in ubiquity on a parallel path with the growth of wines available to the consumer who are mostly inundated with a wall of wine and abundance of choice when all they truly want is a lovely bottle of vino for dinner.

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Of course, the wine choice also depends on my host.

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The wine club can in fact be an excellent choice for an individual who wants to experiment with various styles of wine but has little to no time for browsing in their local wine shop.

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What help make protagonist Walker believable and empathetic are his cynical, searing insights and wisecracks and his politically incorrect habits of smoking and drinking (the liquid of choice: good old scotch, not wine).

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Thirty years ago, our choice was limited to a handful of European wine-producing countries and California.

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Beer and wine are also available, with the popular choice being cheap cans of Rio Bravo lined with salt and lime.

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For some reason none of us managed to choose a wine that we felt certain would be the best choice for all.

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