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I once called myself a ‘pinot whore’ at a wine-club tasting with a crowd of people I’d only just met. (That was before I’d learned to spit.) I was riffing off my friend Howard, a film critic and bon vivant who used to call himself a ‘festival whore,’ since he’d accept any film festival invitation [...]
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“What would you serve with this?” one member kept asking at the Vermentino tasting I recently organized for my wine club.
Fish is the quick answer. But in reality, Vermentino accompanies every course in Liguria. It’s perfect with freshly baked foccaccia scented with rosemary and glistening with fruity olive [...]
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“Vermentino is a grape that needs to see the sea,” a winemaker recently told me. But let’s be specific. Vermentino craves the Ligurian Sea.
I get that. Liguria is my favorite place, too. I never tire of hiking its ancient paths that follow the contours of the rocky cliffs. I love the [...]
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Bored with your pinot grigio? Snoozing through your sauvignon? Here are 16 fixes for the summer-wine blahs.
Three intrepid members of La Dolce Vita’s wine club scouted this list. Steven Scherer, Patricia Calderon, and Michael Schraeder beat the bushes looking for the most obscure grape varietals. What they turned up was an [...]
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