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Northwest Chardonnay: The Chronicle recommends
San Francisco Chronicle 2009 Columbia Crest Grand Estates Columbia Valley Chardonnay ($12): Much bargain Washington Chardonnay takes a no-frills tack, but Columbia Crest has succeeded over time by delivering a classic Chard package: no shortage of oak, but lots of lively … |
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Northwest Chardonnay: The Chronicle recommends – San Francisco Chronicle
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WINE WISDOM: A magical week of many wines – Norton Mirror
WINE WISDOM: A magical week of many wines
Norton Mirror
I learned sauvignon blanc is good with oysters, but not East Coast oysters; chardonnay works better. The Crossings 2009 Unoaked Chardonnay ($17) from New Zealand superbly mated with Onset oysters, proving the point. Breaking another myth, The Crossings …
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Recommended: Shades of Texas in 2003? – msnbc.com
Recommended: Shades of Texas in 2003?
msnbc.com
Instead he's headed west to be with the chardonnay and cheese crowd, Mark Zuckerberg and rich tech geeks. Harry Truman would never have stood for this. The battle ground states are in the Rust Belt, and the battle ground is surely there. …
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Cheap wine: The bargains that cost us dear – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukCheap wine: The bargains that cost us dear
Telegraph.co.uk
Even I had trouble with one — the size of the various Beaujolais crus. Régnié is allowed to declare some of its production as Beaujolais Villages — effectively to declassify it — so its official total vineyard size fluctuates hugely from year to … -
Prim and Proper – San Diego Reader
Prim and Proper
San Diego Reader
He lifts his glass of wine, Gascón Malbec, from Argentina. Seems Argentine wines — 'specially the Malbec grape — are a hot item these days. I look down at my glass, California red, a Tangley Oaks, Napa Merlot. Eight bucks. Complexity? How would I …
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