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Discovering specific wine aromas and tastes

Rhubarb Wine, A Summer Hit

June 27, 2016 – 8:36 am

A few years ago we visited several Tennessee wineries. One of these special wineries was Mountain Valley Winery in Pigeon Forge where we discovered a Rhubarb wine.

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Wines of South Africa Chenin Blanc Tasting

June 18, 2016 – 6:26 am

On Friday June 17th,  we participated in tasting six Chenin Blancs from different producers from South Africa. Winemaking has taken place in South Africa for close to four centuries. One of the most widely planted grapes is Chenin Blanc. This grape is used to make a variety of different wines. Accompanying our tasting was a live […]

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A Delicious Complex Wine: Ciban’s Pinot Crni

June 11, 2016 – 8:28 am

A few years ago we visited a quaint winery about half an hour outside of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Earlier this week we opened a bottle of Ciban’s wine for dinner.

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Monkey Bay’s Sauvignon Blanc

June 8, 2016 – 4:12 pm

Discovering a delicious New Zealand wine at a local restaurant

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A Wine from Sicily

June 6, 2016 – 4:23 pm

Stemmari Grillo 2013 is a delightful white, light wine from Sicily. The Stemmari Grillo 2013 was produced with 100% Grillo.

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Lending Vineyard Assistance

May 26, 2016 – 6:48 am

Temperatures in central Maryland have finally warmed and spring is becoming a memory. It was a long cool and wet spring. As memories go, I thought about vineyard scenes that we have experienced in our travels. Vineyards tell a story during the entire year. Springtime sets the stage for new life budding forth. At times […]

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Enjoyable Ferrari-Canaro Wine Tasting

May 20, 2016 – 2:39 pm

Last night was the Ferrari-Canaro Vineyards and Winery online wine tasting. Terry wrote haikus to describe the wines while I wrote brief descriptions. However, besides the quality of the wines I was very interested in the recipes that are on Ferrari-Carano website under Rhonda’s kitchen. The consensus of those tasting the wines and tweeting was that the wines were well-made and delicious.

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Le Cigare Volant from Bonny Doon

May 16, 2016 – 7:46 am

Over the weekend, we enjoyed a bottle of Bonny Doon Vineyard’s Le Cigare Volant Reserve 2011. Translated Le Cigare Volant means Flying Cigar.

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Rhone Grape Variety: Picpoul

May 9, 2016 – 4:01 pm

Picpoul is also known as Piquepoul. Picpoul translates to “lip stinger.” The Picpoul variety originally goes back to the French Languedoc region.

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Wines of South Africa

April 29, 2016 – 7:15 am

This week we went to the Four Seasons located close to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for a Wines of South Africa tasting. Jim Clarke, a sommelier and a wine ambassador for South Africa’s wines, offered a very good two-hour presentation including a multimedia presentation that included 12 wines from different regions of South Africa.

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