The tasting was conducted by Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, a freelance food and wine writer and this reporter's wife.
"It's an appeal that goes to the heart and stomach, rather than to the mind, " contends James Halliday, Australia's leading wine writer.
This history of Pomerol is entertainingly recorded in British wine writer Neal Martin's new book "Pomerol, " released in December by Wine Journal Publishing.
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Karen MacNeil, wine writer and author of the upcoming book, The Wine Primer, has trained thousands of chefs and waiters in understanding wine.
As a wine writer, over the years I have sampled all sorts of cigar combinations, from sparkling wine to vintage port and Californian Merlot.
This introduction would be apropos of nothing besides pretentious wine writer affectations were it not necessary to establish the backdrop for what is a compelling convergence of issues in the wine world.
The latter was actually the preferred location of a late wine writer and friend of mine who "stored" everything from cheap Cabernet to first-growth Bordeaux along the edges of his living-room rug.
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Quirky a notion as a restaurant with reasonable wine prices might be, it's only appropriate, then, that we also gave the value-wine-picking assignment to irreverent, north-of-the-border wine writer Natalie Maclean, author of Red, White and Drunk All Over and editor of the free newsletter Nat Decants.
"Wine is interesting to me because it is related to all aspects of culture, agriculture and high culture, " he says, arguing that far from slavishly following an omnipotent wine writer or critic for advice, it is the ambiguity of wine and the search for knowledge that makes it so pleasurable.
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Mr. Botham, who had been educated to appreciate the delights of fine wine (mainly French) by the late cricket commentator and writer John Arlott, began a love affair with Australian wine.
In this wonderful new movie by the team of Alexander Payne (writer-director) and Jim Taylor (co-writer), Giamatti plays Miles, a failed novelist around forty who takes off for a wine-tasting tour with his buddy Jack (Thomas Haden Church), a washed-up TV actor who is about to get married.
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