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Summer Wines That Will Make Any Hot Party (Or Cool Night) Better — 5 Perfect Picks For the Season

James Brock — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:41:52 +0000

Summer is here full force with it heat and humidity, the severity of which is dependent upon where you happen to be, vacation agendas, and, if you are lucky, myriad invitations to garden parties, dinners and poolside gatherings. Along with food – I&#82...

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A Texas Wine Worthy of Old Friends — and an Impressive California Tasting Winner From a Woman Who Knows Grapes

James Brock — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:55:33 +0000

The bottle had been staring me down for several days, waiting its turn in my tasting queue, which had, for various reasons, including several trips and an enthralling read on the history of Assisi, developed a backlog. It was patient, that bottle. It w...

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Great Wines For Valentine’s Day — and a Surprisingly Good Super Bowl Wine

James Brock — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:36:06 +0000

Looking for some wines for weekend dinners, or Valentine’s Day, perhaps? My tasting schedule was interrupted recently while I was out of the country — though I did sample some good Mexican wines (more on that later) — but I’m back in the sw...

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How Studying Spanish Led to a Career in Wine — This Vineyard Guru Loves Birth Year Wines, Cabs and Unusual Paths

James Brock — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:29:02 +0000

I love to talk about wine with people who share my passion for it. We open bottles, we trade stories about travel and soil types, terroir and residual sugar, and we talk of taste and food and restaurants. We recommend wines to one another, we drink, an...

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One Complex Wine Woman — Bibiana González Rave on Studying in France, Finding California and Fifty Shades

James Brock — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:59:25 +0000

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The Real Story of Priest Ranch, Somerston Estate and Two Bottles of Wine Worth Pursuing

James Brock — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 03:01:08 +0000

James Joshua Priest was his name, and he was a gold prospector. In 1869, he established Priest Ranch, in Napa Valley, 660 acres in an area then known as Soda Valley. (Priest, who died in 1896, at 70 years of age, had nine sons, and for a while marketed...

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