Frost meets with the rest of his team once a year and they go through the wine options provided for tender and pick 75 blends for the following year.

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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.

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To further mix things up, each grouping includes a wide number of wine options, and it is not unusual for the sommelier to offer two different people at the same table having the same dish two different wines.

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At all of its new restaurants, Ritz-Carlton has simplified wine lists and offers more options by the glass.

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Meanwhile the students on the journalism degree are still struggling to understand the relevance of the wine-tasting and scuba-diving options to their hoped-for careers as journalists.

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As legislators more recently looked around for a fix to the deficit, they considered all sorts of options from taxing soda to taxing wine.

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The Le Pigeon wine list is mostly French, with a few options from Italy, California and, naturally, Oregon.

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