The German soldiers who ransacked a French village’s supply of wine didn’t know what they were starting. The villagers weren’t goi…
The German soldiers who ransacked a French village’s supply of wine didn’t know what...
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A Black Velvet is made using a stout beer more often than not Guinness and a sparkling white wine, often champagne. The orig…
A Black Velvet is made using a stout beer more often than not Guinness and a sparkling white wine, often champagne. The...
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Quivira is a perennial fave at Drinkhacker HQ — check our glowing coverage of the 2008 version of this same wine here — and the 2009 sauvignon blancs are now hitting the market. This wine isn’t quite the hit that the 2008 was, but it’s...
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Boxed wine continues to tiptoe toward improvement, with the folks at Octavin offering some decent wines in considerably more handsome packaging. These three-liter boxes fit more easily into your fridge but still promise to store your vino without it...
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Ruffino is a name loaded with history — but most people probably know it from seeing it on the shelves of their local supermarket, where Ruffino is invariably one of the few Chiantis available. But Ruffino makes some fancier bottlings too, including...
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Two hot-off-the-bottling-line wines from long-time favorite Eric Kent Wine Cellars. 2008 Eric Kent Chardonnay Russian River Valley is a wonderful Chardonnay for the non-Chardonnay drinker
Two hot-off-the-bottling-line wines from long-time favorite Eric...
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Reader Sara writes: I hear drinking zin will get me drunk faster. True or false? In the wine world, zinfandel has a bad reputation for making grown men and women into slobbering fools
Reader Sara writes: I hear drinking zin will get me drunk faster....
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A Languedoc wine from the Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) empire, this dark red is composed of syrah, mourvedre, grenache, and carignane grapes. Nothing very special, Lafite says it chooses the grapes for this wine to be “mature, fresh, supple, and...
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Is sake making a comeback? For whatever reason, Drinkhacker HQ has been flooded with the stuff of late
Is sake making a comeback?
For whatever reason, Drinkhacker HQ has been flooded with the stuff of late. The intricacies of sake styles are too involved...
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Textbook California pinot. Fresh cherries, just a hint of earth and stone, and a lightly floral finish. Somewhat thin body, and light on the tongue, but great on its own, especially as an appetite-whetting aperitif
Textbook California pinot. Fresh cherries,...
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