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Top Ten White Wines from the 2019 Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival

We’ve already written about the wonderfully successful Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival, which took place in Newport, RI this past September. In previous articles you can read an overview of the event (available here), as well as the Top Red Wines (available here). We would be remiss if we didn’t pay proper respect to

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Top Fifteen Red Wines from the 2019 Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival

Mind blowing wines from Canard

It was a spectacular weekend in Newport this year at the 2019 Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival. We always publish a Top Ten list for both the red and white wines each year. This time around we have a serious problem however, as there were simply

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Quick Recap of the 2019 Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival

The last weekend of summer was glorious in Newport, RI, with warm sunshine, cool breezes off the ocean, and as much great wine and food as anyone can realistically handle in four days. This was the 2019 Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival, and it was, as usual, spectacular. If anything the wine was even

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Revisiting the Top Two Red Wines from the 2018 Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival

It’s June, and warm and sunny. When summer hits most think of the beach and school vacation. While we also look forward to the lazy days of summer, we tend to look ahead just tiny bit, to the last half of September, and the Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival. This is our favorite wine

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A Chance at Your Own Personal Champagne Label!

I have always dreamed about making my own wine. My dream involves vineyards, big oak barrels, musty cellars and daily checks on my evolving wine. For the foreseeable future that remains a dream. However, if you happen to have an extra $30,000+ lying around, can spend some regular time in Europe, and like Champagne –

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Book Review: Brut Force by Peter Stafford-Bow

Brut Force is the sequel to the wild and zany Corkscrew, which is one of the funniest books I have ever read and a rollicking ride through the international wine world. One of the first questions I asked Peter Stafford-Bow after reading Corkscrew was if he was going to write a sequel, because the world

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Top 25 Wines of 2018!

It’s time to look back at the year just past, and highlight the best of the best from our wine experiences. We tend to do this a bit differently than the other Top Wines of the Year lists you’re used to.

For one, we only do 25 wines in our list. This is for several

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Italy Launches Major Campaign to Promote Italian Wine

 

Rolling hills of Barbaresco

Make no mistake, we love Italian wines. That includes the big names, the widely respected varietals and classic styles. It also includes the small producers, family wineries and unheralded local grapes that don’t get a tremendous amount of press or visibility with the average wine consumer. They make

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The New Great Bordeaux Vintages – and a Bottle of 2005 Chateau Destieux

Pick up the latest issue of Wine Spectator and you will see one of the great events in the wine world heralded yet again, that being a stellar vintage in Bordeaux. We love them, we buy them, we drink them and think they represent some of the best value opportunities you will ever find. Do

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The Top 25 Wines of 2017!

Another year has passed, all too quickly. There were many memorable moments along the journey through 2017, and many of them involved great wine. That is always a welcome occurrence in our lives, and here we’ll share with you the best that we encountered in the past 12 months. As always, there are some ground

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