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Spotlight on Maryland Wine: Some Misconceptions

April 2, 2013 – 6:07 am

In April, The Drink Local Wine Conference is held in a state. The first four conferences brought attention to the wine industries in Texas, Virginia, Missouri and Colorado. This year the conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland on Saturday April 13th. Wine enthusiasts from around the state and wine writers and wine bloggers from […]

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Four Reasons Why To Drink Local Wine

April 1, 2013 – 11:48 am

With the 5th Annual Drink Local Wine Conference taking place in two weeks in Baltimore, perhaps its time to look at what wine enthusiasts are missing if they ignore local wines.

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Wines from Croatia Grand Tasting

March 15, 2013 – 4:56 pm

The 2013 International Wine Tourism Conference included a tasting of Croatian wines led by Caroline Gilby MW. Ten Croatian wines were tasted along with a Slovenia wine and a wine from the Friuli region of Italy. I continued to keep with tradition by writing haikus instead of typical wine notes. Bolfan Riesling 2011 Bolfan Riesling […]

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Learning More about Croatian Wine and Culture

March 7, 2013 – 8:10 am

Visiting Croatia for the International Wine Tourism Conference next week will be very interesting. In addition to the numerous indigenous grape varieties that are known in Croatia is the history of wine, food and culture of the region.

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Apple Bacon Tomato Soup Recipe with Noiret

March 2, 2013 – 12:01 am

While many areas of the country continue to have cold winter weather, this recipe for Apple Bacon Tomato Soup with red wine is a great way to warm up. My family knows that I love bacon so this is going to be one of my personal “keeper” recipes.

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Vina Croatia 2013 Masterclass Seminar: Beyond Plavic Mali: Croatia’s Other Indigenous Varietal Wines

March 1, 2013 – 7:46 am

Although much smaller, the Vina Croatia seminar reminded me of the Texas Sommelier Conference we attended in 2007 after the first Drink Local Wine Conference in 2009. While the Sommelier Conference was an all day affair, the Vina Croatia was just a little over an hour long with nine wines. The Vina Croatia event took […]

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Vina Croatia, 2nd Annual Portfolio Tasting

February 28, 2013 – 7:43 am

Vina Croatia 2013 took place in New York City at the Astor Center. We arrived a few minutes early and waited for several minutes with other media members enthusiastic about tasting the wines of Croatia. The Astor Center is home to the Astor Wine Shop located on the lower (basement) level of this historic building. […]

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Croatian Wines

February 27, 2013 – 7:58 am

Preparing for the International Wine Tourism Conference in Zagreb, Croatia next month, we experienced the Second Annual Portfolio Tasting, Vina Croatia yesterday at the Astor Center in New York City. We had a preview of some of the wines we will be exposed to in Croatia. Croatia makes wines from some of its 64 indigenous […]

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Destination: Vina Croatia in NYC

February 25, 2013 – 3:34 pm

As February draws to a close, it is time to look forward to March. For Kathy and me, that means looking forward to our visit to Croatia, it wines, people, vineyards and the International Wine Tourism Conference. At last year’s IWINETC, Vina Croatia presented some of the wines from Croatia. The well organized event wet […]

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Is Wine Losing its Romance?

February 21, 2013 – 9:31 am

I recently read an article by Richard L. Elia titled Wine’s Decline The romance of wine is spent. The article was posted on the Quarterly Review of Wines website. The author spoke of why the print version of the Quarterly Review of Wines was abandoned. One of his reasons was that the romance of wine was […]

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