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Attending the 2016 IWINETC in the Penedés Affords an Opportunity to Become a Placomusophile

August 4, 2015 – 7:49 am

This is not a negative. The word placomusophile refers to a collector of placas or chapas, those metal coverings that are affixed to a wire cage holding a cork in a bottle of sparkling wine. This piece of metal protects the cork from the wire cage. The use of metal coverings dates back to 1844 […]

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Wine Author and Teacher Karen MacNeil Will Deliver Keynote Address at Wine Bloggers Conference

July 27, 2015 – 7:48 am

During our early years of Wine Trail Traveler, we were starving for wine knowledge. Stumbling on a television broadcast, Wine, Food and Friends, we watched attentively as Karen MacNeil led the viewers through a gentle wine education that was also entertaining. We kept searching for other broadcasts in the series. Kathy and I have been […]

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Ojaleshi the Rolls Royce of Georgian Black Grapes

July 23, 2015 – 7:52 am

Perhaps divine intervention or fate led to events that make me wonder. Kathy and I were visiting Dadiani Old Cellar in the Shmegrelo region of the country Georgia. Monks own the property, church, mansion and winery. The grounds are beautifully landscaped. We enjoyed a tour of the entire property and settled in the cellar of […]

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Wine Bloggers Conference Gives Chance to Plug Ancient Winemaking Protocols

July 20, 2015 – 6:29 am

The previous Wine Bloggers Conference on the East Coast was in Charlottesville, Virginia. At that 2011 conference, I took a couple bottles of wine that I had made and shared with other members of the media. One bottle was an east/west blend of Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon and Virginia Tannat. This year’s conference returns to […]

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Maryland Winemasters’ Choice Competition Awards

July 16, 2015 – 3:14 pm

Kathy and I were invited by the Maryland Wineries Association to attend the presentation of the Maryland Winemasters’ Choice Awards at Big Cork Vineyards in Rohrersville, Maryland. We had visited Big Cork Vineyards the previous week and were looking for another reason to visit this winery. The winery took the Best in Show award for […]

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Wine Bloggers Conference Just a Month Away

July 13, 2015 – 12:27 pm

This year’s Wine Bloggers Conference returns to the east on August 13th – 16th in Corning, New York. The conference attracts not only wine bloggers, but also wine writers and authors.

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Vigna di Pettineo Nero d’Avola

July 2, 2015 – 11:23 am

We received two wines from Sicilia to try for the upcoming Independence Day celebrations. Since I was grilling hamburgers today, I decided to open the Vigna di Pettineo Nero d’Avola. This 2012 red wine was made entirely with Nero d’Avola grapes grown in organic vineyards. The vineyards are located in Vittoria, in the south eastern […]

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Returning from Cava Country

June 30, 2015 – 7:58 am

Kathy and I spent the last week of May and the first couple weeks of June in Catalonia, visiting cava producers and judging this year’s 50 Great Cavas. We were able to also visit three producers in Requena, in the Valencia Provence. Our trip was work related. We did not go site seeing although we […]

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Blind Wine Judging: Work not Pleasure

June 15, 2015 – 1:27 am

This past year, Kathy and I have had an opportunity to judge wines in blind tastings. Last July we judged over 40 wines from Santa Barbara County in California. Then in January of this year we judged ten Virginia sparkling wines. The largest judgement came this past week. We were judging close to 150 cavas […]

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Disgorging by Hand Without Freezing the Plug

May 27, 2015 – 12:41 am

A few years ago Kathy and I were visiting wineries in Quebec, Canada. At the winery, Le Cep d’Argent we met one of the owners and winemaker François Scieur who is a 6th generation winemaker. His family still owns a Champagne House in Champagne. François demonstrated how to disgorge a bottle of sparkling wine by […]

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