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Wonderful Wines from Ceretto in Piemonte, Italy.

Some of our favorite wines in the world come from the northwest corner of Italy, tucked beneath the French Alps to the west and the Swiss to the north. This is Piemonte, defined by those mountains as well as the Po River which meanders through the province. This is also Nebbiolo country, and the wines

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A Tiny Wine Shop with a Big Selection in Durham, NC

Tucked inside the Research Triangle Park, or RTP as it is known near our home in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina, is a unique shopping and dining venue. It’s called Boxyard RTP, and is constructed of re-used shipping containers. All painted a deep blue, the containers are arranged in a two story rectangular structure,

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Margaret & Maxwell, a Wine Salon in Asheville, N.C.

We were recently in Asheville, North Carolina, visiting the Biltmore Estate. You can read more about that by clicking here. On the Biltmore Estate there is a large and excellent winery, which we visited as well, and spent some quality time at. That you can read about by clicking here. The estate is located in

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The Art and Science of Bordeaux Futures – a Chat with Hortense Bernard of Millesima U.S.A.

We have mentioned it before, how our wine journey really took off when we started to appreciate Bordeaux. From there, the rest of the wine world opened in turn, but it was an unlikely bottle of 1997 Chateau Potensac which started it. We ordered this, for no particularly good reason, at a family dinner in

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Crush – an Eclectic Wine Shop in New Bedford, MA

Cheri and I grew up in the New Bedford, MA area, and have seen the city’s downtown go through rebuild and renaissance several times. Most have not had lasting effects, but the downtown area these days has a different feeling. Restaurants and shops along Purchase street and close by seem to be thriving, and there

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