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Grape Expectations
It is early in the morning of March 4th and as I venture out from the guest cottage for a walk in this lovely 400 acre estate, the rains have stopped and cooling fog from nearby San Pablo Bay hangs over the neat, but dormant rows o...
DATE: Apr 11, 2014
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In January of 1920 the United States Government decided that the consumption of beer, wine and spirits would no longer be allowed and this of course resulted in many vineyards being ripped out and replanted with walnut, plum and other such crops. One...
DATE: Mar 21, 2014
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Grape Expectations
The legend that the old fashioned Champagne coup glass was moulded from Marie Antoinette’s breasts is almost certainly not true, but the fact that she deemed Champagne “the wine of coronations” is, and from that day forward it has ...
DATE: Dec 27, 2013
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Grape Expectations
The area above the village of Meursault, in the Burgundy Region of France, was originally settled some 4,500 years ago and some say that the name “mouse leaping” is because the vines are so closely planted that a mouse can leap fro...
DATE: Dec 20, 2013
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Grape Expectations
Every October the Wine Spectator magazine puts on a fantastic few days of tastings, seminars and luncheons that end with a grand ball.
As my wife and I have done for eighteen years now we attended this event last week in the Big Ap...
DATE: Nov 01, 2013
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