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Blog Post #62 – Education

  • Blog Post #22 – Food & Wine (main course)

    This week’s post is another popular “one pot” meal, chili! There are many different ways to prepare this common meal and everyone seems to have their own “twist”. So, if yours is particularly unusual, let me know; I may need to recommend a different wine for you. Otherwise, I’m going to profile a basic version…

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  • Blog Post #21 – Education

    This post is a continuation of #18, where I began to break down the various wine regions of France. I will be using the same notes and reference material that I did in #18. After Burgundy, we move south to the Rhone Valley, which splits into 2 sections: Northern Rhone and Southern Rhone. These two…

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  • Blog Post #20 – Wine of the Month (January)

    The Wine of the Month for January is a Spanish Albarino, something many of you have probably never heard of. It is an excellent seafood wine, for reasons I will detail below, and goes especially well with Clinton Hannaford’s Spicy Roll Tuna Sushi (something I profiled in Post #14). This particular Albarino is from Bodega…

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