At our December wine dinner event, we featured a tasting of 8 sparkling wines served blind during the course of dinner. At the end I asked people to select their…
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Yannick Heude lives in St. Malo, about as far away from a wine region in France as you can get. But he’s a serious wine lover who also owns a wine…
This may come as a surprise: Lebanon is a serious wine making country. It came as a surprise to me but several years ago I attended a trade tasting sponsored…
We just finished our outstanding tour of the Loire Valley wine country and came away with a much better appreciation of the high quality of the wines from one end…
Today is Muscadet day and we went to one of the best. I selected our one winery visit to Muscadet months ago and just last week in my favorite wine…
If you’re a wine educator like me, you dread doing a tasting with plastic glasses. Sometimes you do the tasting as a courtesy for a non profit group or for…
Portugal may be one of the oldest wine producing countries in the world, but it ranks near the bottom of recognition in the grand scheme of things. Other than Port,…
Bringing back wines from our tours to share with fellow wine lovers is as much of a challenge as it is a passion. I bring back wines that are rare…
The Balearic Islands lie off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean; there are several islands, but the 3 most well known are Menorca, Ibiza and Mallorca. I had the…
I had this inspiration to do this tasting for a while and it finally came together last night.31 wine lovers gathered in the new 1640 Wine Bar in Hamden, CT…
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