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16
Oct
2009
Wine Blogging Wednesday 62: A grape by any other name…

23 days ago by Tom Mansell

This month, for Wine Blogging Wednesday, Boston wine bigwig Dale Cruse selected a very clever theme. The idea: drink wines called by their lesser-known synonyms. For example, if you like Zinfandel, have a Primitivo. This exercise is also interesting because regional names tend to denote regional win ...

Ithacork - ithacork.wordpress.com · Rank: 41,233 · 16 references

15
Oct
2009
Wine Blogging Wednesday #62: Pindar 2007 Johannisberg Riesling

24 days ago by Michael Gorton, Jr.

This Wine Blogging Wednesday, #62 is titled “A Grape by Any Other Name”. It is hosted by Dale Cruse over at drinksareonme.net. We are assigned to find a wine with a lesser known varietal on the label. I found this to be a bit of a challenge for two reasons. There are not a lot of lesser know varieta ...

Undertaking Wine - undertakingwine.com · Rank: 110,911 · 2 references

14
Oct
2009
Schiava and Vernatsch: A Double Identity Crisis

25 days ago by David McDuff

I’ve been meaning to try the most recent vintage of Vernatsch from Andreas Baron Widmann ever since it hit the shelves here in the US a couple of months back. There was quite a buzz about the wine during my recent San Fran trip, which happened to coincide with an Oliver McCrum (who is one of Widmann ...

McDuff's Food & Wine Trail - mcduffwine.blogspot.com · Rank: 59,284 · 102 references

Wine Blogging Wednesday #62: A Grape By Any Other Name

25 days ago by Kori

Our host for the October edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, the blogosphere’s monthly virtual wine tasting event, is Dale Cruse of Drinks Are On Me. He selected A Grape By Any Other Name as this month’s theme and issued a semantic challenge to “taste wines labeled with their lesser-known varietal s ...

Wine Peeps - winepeeps.com · Rank: 64,086 · 56 references

"You say Monastrell I say Mourvedre" Wine Blogging Wednesday #62 - Part 2

25 days ago by Xandria

Monastrell, Mourvedre, Mataro, oh my! For this tasty little assignment the Brixchicks chose Monastrell,one of their favorite varietals, which we discovered has several aliases other than Mourvedre and Mataro*. It is true that we drink a lot of Monastrell from Spain (especially from Jumilla) and Mour ...

BrixChicks - brixchicks.com · Rank: 126,828 · 37 references

13
Oct
2009
Green Drinks & Wine Blogging Wednesday October: Blog Action Day 2009

25 days ago by art predator

Yes, it’s that time of the month where two of my passions collide on the same day–the in-person Green Activism & Networking event known as “Green Drinks” and the on-line wine reviewing event, “Wine Blogging Wednesday” –both happening tomorrow, Wednesday October 14 which is also the day before Blog A ...

Wine Predator - winepredator.wordpress.com · Rank: 100,199 · 7 references

20
Sep
2009
Wine Blogging Wednesday #61: At the Source

48 days ago by Erika Strum

Lenn Thompson, the host of this month’s Wine Blogging Wednesday and the creator of the event itself, strategically coordinated this month’s “At the Source” theme with my trip to Willamette Valley, Oregon (Thanks Lenn!). Lenn challenged us to taste any wine at the winery where it was made. Willamette ...

StrumErika.com - strumerika.com · Rank: 52,253 · 39 references

17
Sep
2009
WBW #61: Lieb Family Cellars 2007 Bridge Lane Cabernet Franc

52 days ago by LENNDEVOURS

By Lenn Thompson, Long Island Editor and Editor-in-Chief Lieb Family Cellars, a small North Fork winery with a tasting room tucked into the front of the Premium Wine Group complex, was one of the wineries that first inspired me to start writing about wine more than five years ago. It was the first w ...

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WBW 61 – At The Source

52 days ago by DrinkWhatYouLike

September marks the 61 st monthly gathering of wine bloggers for the virtual wine tasting, Wine Blogging Wednesday (WBW). WBW founder, Len Thompson, served as the host for this month’s WBW, and the theme for this month is “at the source.” For this month, we were challenged to feature a wine based on ...

Drink What YOU Like - drinkwhatyoulike.wordpress.com · Rank: 52,957 · 20 references

Au Currant…A WBW Adventure

52 days ago by winebratsf

This month, Wine Blogging Wednesday returns to it’s founder, Lenn Thompson of Lenndevours for a little twist on drinking locally. Lenn charged us to not only drink wines that are made locally, but rather to DRINK them locally, vis a vis at a winery. Well, I took it an extra step. As I had a wine adv ...

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