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Lyeth Wines
It was one of those days you never forget. It was not a great or catastrophic event that shakes history but rather a quiet, mundane but very memorable occurrence; we drank a bottle of wine. It was in the late eighties, we were lunching with a winemaker when a wine on...
Pairing Wine With Movies
It is a common practice to pair wines with foods; but why stop there? How about pairing wines with movies? With that in mind, we will proceed to give our recommendations on what to drink while you are watching what. The most obvious choice would be a chardonnay with...
The New Wines From Spain
Spanish wines; a riddle, a puzzle and a huge question mark. For over a century, the wine industry has known that Spain should be a top producer of wines, but unfortunately, it has never lived up to its potential. It is only in recent times that Spanish wines have...
Petite Sirah
There are mysteries and conundrums to be found even in the wine industry; this one concerns the durif grape. The grape was discovered by François Durif, a botanist at the University of Montpellier, in France, who found the new grape variety at the experimental...
Malbec – From Argentina with love
Hey, where were you when the malbec hit the fan? Unless you don’t know it, the current red wine rage is malbec from Argentina. In the early 60’s it was the iron hard, tannin loaded Bordeaux blends that were the rage. Even if you were not particularly...
Glen Ellen- Gooid wine, good price
Wine is a luxury and as a luxury it was one of the first to feel the effects of the recent economic downturn. The industry is facing a situation similar to the economic recession of the early seventies. At that time, business was so bad that there was a standing joke...