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Facts About Wine
By Gus Clemens
Harvesting Grapes
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Many factors affect wine prices. Barrel cost and berry quality. Parker scores. Marketing mavens. Winery hubris. Take your pick.
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Heavy wine
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Your impression of wine involves many things, some valid, some irrational.
Price is important. Peel off a Benjamin and there is no way you are going to sip, decide stuff is sheep-butt-scented swill, and pour remainder down the drain so as not to further offend nose and palate.
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Fake wine in China
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All is not what it claims to be in the Chinese wine market.
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Weird wine terms 2
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Second week of wacko wine descriptors. The obvious: some of this is concocted by wine writers to stand out from the “juicy, jammy, red and black fruits” cognoscente.
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Weird Wine Terms
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Many wine taste and smell terms are easy to understand, delicious to imagine.
Stone fruits (plums, cherries, peaches, apricots). Blackberries and blueberries. Red currants. Soft, supple tannins. Cleansing acidity. Plush mouth feel.
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Bottle sizes
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Most of us spend our entire wine lives pouring from three bottle sizes.
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Sparkling Facts
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Champagne and other sparkling wines shine at Christmas and New Years. Today, answers to some merry sparkling questions.
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Wine Numbers 2
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More wine trivia to abet bets and sustain snobbery.
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Wine Numbers
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Insider numbers to help you win wine bets, show off at wine bars, or one-up siblings. Weighted to Napa, the U.S. premier wine producer.
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Master of Wine
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Each year fewer than 100 over-achieving oenophiles strive for wine world’s ultimate designation: Master of Wine.
Finale involves four-day test administered by Tory-titled, London-based “Institute of Masters of Wine.”
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