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Seasonal Recommendations
By Gus Clemens
Wedding party, part 2
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Continued advice to everyone planning nuptials or hardy parties.
Money probably matters at your wedding, often the biggest party you put on in your life. Even if you are throwing a smaller party, money matters. Crass but true.
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Wedding party, part 1
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Wedding season coming. Brides and their mamas and papas toil over what will be, for many, the biggest party they put on in their lives.
Don’t panic. Loving couples and anxious families have pulled this off for thousands of years. So will you.
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Holiday Gifts
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Are you pressed to find last-minute, perfect holiday gift for a wine lover or developing wine appreciator? Ideas:
A decanter makes a decidedly dandy December gift. Decanters come in various shapes, sizes, prices; all expose wine to air. Aeration significantly improves most reds, especially Bordeaux and other old world wines, but even Champagne benefits (and bubbles remain).
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Christmas Mulled Wne
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Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Bing Crosby ringing in your ears. Yuletide carols sung by a choir, folks dressed up like Eskimos—Christmas, season for loving nostalgia.
Mulled wine is way to warm the cockles of your nostalgic heart. At its simplest, mulled wine is red wine combined with spices and sugar/honey, served warm.
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Thanksgiving 2009
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Thankfully, Thanksgiving is easiest of wine times.
First, with the cornucopia of food, it is almost impossible to fail to pair with something on the table. Buy whatever you like, anything in your price range, whatever looks interesting.
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Halloween
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Halloween tempts you into cloyingly kitsch novelty wine plays. Trouble: clever names and campy labels often are inversely related to wine quality.
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Labor Day
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Labor Day: bittersweet holiday. Summer’s wrath wanes. Kids back to school. Your baseball team drives for playoffs—or not. Football kicks off.
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Experiment
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There are so many different wines, grapes, styles, and makers no one could ever experience them all. Okay, Robert Parker (world’s most influential wine critic) is giving it a shot; he will fail.
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Wine for the 4th of July
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Patriots patronize American wines on July 4th, but which should a proud patriot pour?
Safe choice: Zinfandel. Quintessential American. California's gift to the world. Zins hold their own against barbeque and heavier fare. Safe, not necessarily best.
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Mexican Food and Wine
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Cinco de Mayo is over, but Tex-Mex food is a fiesta year round. Which raises the question among wine drinkers: does wine pair with Tex-Mex? Answer: certainly, señor. Forget about beer and tequila.
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Easter
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As Christian families gather to celebrate the empty tomb and Jewish families the passing over of the 10th plague in Egypt, they traditionally serve one of two dinners: a roasted ham or some cut of lamb. Wines pair well with both.
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St. Patrick's Day
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St. Patrick’s Day evokes images of a dram of Irish whiskey, a pint of stout. But wine?
Well, yes.
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Valentine's Day Wine
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Ah, Valentine's Day. Dedicated to the one you love. Red is the official color, chocolate the lingua franca, romance the zeitgeist. Is there a place for wine in all this? Of course!
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Champagne/New Year's
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For many, New Year's and weddings are the only times they drink sparkling wine. More than 25 percent of the Champagne and sparkling wine sold each year is sold the week of New Year's Eve. If you're buying bubbly today, here's a quick primer.
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Dessert Wines
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Christmas is a sweet season, why not try a sweet wine to end a great holiday meal?
Dessert wines are sweeter, richer, and usually higher in alcohol than table wines. Often served with dessert, they also can be enjoyed with cheese or on their own.
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Thanksgiving Wine - Part 2
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Today will be the biggest day of the year for premium wine sales in San Angelo. Thanksgiving is great opportunity to pour several wines and enjoy different taste experiences. Last week we offered safe, this week unconventional.
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Thanksgiving Wine - Part 1
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This is the biggest week of the year for premium wine sales in San Angelo, with the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Thursday the biggest single day.
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Halloween Wines
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Adult Halloween parties tend toward harder spirits, but you can have frightful fun with wines, too. Start by picking your style of humor and your taste in wine.
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