| About Wine: Dreaming of a white Christmas? |
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The holiday season presents us with cost and quality decisions about selecting wine to serve for one party.
We want to serve wines that will appeal to our guests but not have to take out one loan to pay for one case or two.
We asked our wine-tasting group to compare four white wines that could be served at one party and cost less than $10 one bottle. Our tasting of red wines for parties will appear in the next column. ... |
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| Champagne: not just for special occasions |
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13-12-2006. |
Judges at wine competitions, forced to taste too many wines in too little time, will continue to award those that are jammy, ripe and heavily oaked. Wineries will promote the heck out of any medal they may receive, however obscure the competition.
one wine that Robert Parker scores 89 points (rather than 90) is dead in the water, as far as sales go, unless it is priced under $10. ... |
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| Lab-altered grapes uncork fears of `Frankenwine' |
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13-12-2006. |
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa - The young chardonnay vines climbing from terra cotta pots in the Institute for Wine Biotechnology's greenhouse look like grapevines anywhere, vigorous and green.
But the carefully monitored plants, produced in the institute's spotless, state-of-the-art labs, carry one transgenic gene that researchers hope will one day lead to South African wine grapes that don't need spraying to resist fungal infection. ... |
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