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New World, Old World, Ancient World: 8,000 Vintages

October 22, 2015 – 8:59 am

Our guest writer today is Nina Kalandia who is writing and producing the film The Land of 8,000 Vintages. Nina explains the film and how you can get involved. Nina Kalandia: I am an emerging indie filmmaker currently working to produce an American-Georgian cinematic film The Land of 8000 Vintages which should go into production on the […]

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Discovering a Grape Pie

October 13, 2015 – 7:01 am

We have occasionally visited a winery or vineyard that make a grape pie. The most recent winery that did this was Buttonwood Grove Winery in Romulus, New York along Cayuga Lake. We learned that the pies are made from Concord grapes and are very popular. At the time of our August visit, they did not […]

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The Land of 8,000 Vintages

October 12, 2015 – 7:26 am

  The most remarkable wine region that Kathy and I have visited is the country Georgia, south of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. In addition to modern winemaking, they have a traditional winemaking process that is the only winemaking process to be on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. That winemaking process involves making wine […]

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Leftover Wine: Don’t Throw it Out!

October 9, 2015 – 7:01 am

It doesn’t happen frequently, but when we do have leftover wine we turn to several possibilities of what to do with it. Late in September, Kathy and I received six bottles of wine from Umbria. We participated in an Internet broadcast about the wines. During the broadcast we tweeted and in my case, I wrote […]

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Umbrian Sagrantino

September 30, 2015 – 4:08 pm

Kathy and I attended an Internet presentation of Umbrian wines. We received six samples from Umbria. Umbria an a region in Italy that borders Toscana. It is not part of Toscana.  The wine samples all included the grape Sagrantino. Sagrantino is not Sangiovese. It is a completely different grape and one of my favorite grapes. […]

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Sagrantino, One of my Favorite Varieties

September 29, 2015 – 11:18 am

Years ago, I discovered the varietal grape Sagrantino while visiting Firelands Winery in Sandusky, Ohio. The owner of the winery, Claudio Salvador also owns an import company. His wife and brother both own wineries in Italy. When Claudio learned that I enjoy very bold tannins, he presented a Sagrantino from the Umbria region of Italy. […]

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Aldo Adige Wine Haikus

September 25, 2015 – 7:24 am

A Twitter wine tasting last evening comprised of eight wines that we received samples. The wines were from the Alto Adige area of Northern Italy. For two hours, people from across the United Sates tweeted about the wines on a constant stream of tweets. Wine author Karen MacNeil chimed in with her comments and replies […]

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Sip with Karen

September 23, 2015 – 9:20 am

I met Karen MacNeil at the 2015 Wine Bloggers Conference in Corning, New York last month. Prior to the conference, I wrote a post of an online interview with Karen, America’s leading wine author. We were invited to participate in a wine tasting on Twitter led by Karen MacNeil. The Twitter tasting is sponsored by […]

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Georgian National Wine Month

September 14, 2015 – 7:56 am

The country Georgia, about 6,500 airline miles from the east coast of the United States, will celebrate their wines and their 8,000 vintages this October. The country’s National Wine Agency is sponsoring events in the United States. Georgian wine tasting events will take place in: New York City October 6th San Francisco October 13th Washington […]

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Qvevri Coming to United Nations, Geneva

August 31, 2015 – 5:58 am

To help celebrate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, the country Georgia is sending a qvevri to the UN offices in Geneva, according to a report in Agenda.ge. The qvevri will become a permanent display.  The relationship between a qvevri and the United Nations dates to late 2013. Qvevri winemaking was added to the […]

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