A toast to wine!
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Muscadet or MuscatWhen I recently offered a friend a glass of Muscadet, she declined, saying she doesn’t like sweet wine. That led to a conversation indicating that a great many new comers to wine don’t distinguish between Muscadet and Muscat. Her experience with the name came from Moscato or Moscadello or Moscatel from Italy, Spain, or California [...] [comments]
Posted Monday, February 8, 2010 @ 2:45 pm
Wine and Romance
In ten days it will be Valentine’s Day, another opportunity to do something special with or for someone special. Think wine! You would expect me to say something like that in a column like this. No, I have nothing against any of the other gifts that make the rounds on this interesting holiday, but like most [...] [comments]
Posted Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 12:55 pm
Learning About Wine
With the passage of another year — indeed another decade — I can’t help reflecting on how easy it is to learn about wine these days. The Internet teems with blogs, wine journals, and wine writers (some professional, some amateur). Book stores devote full shelves to wine books. Package stores that try to promote wines stock [...] [comments]
Posted Monday, February 1, 2010 @ 12:48 pm
Wine and Beverage Certification
Starting in September, the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) will launch its Accelerated Wine and Beverage Certificate Program at its Graystone Campus in St. Helena, California. Most culinary degrees include some instruction in beverage management, but few offer such a focus in the field. This initiative is all the more interesting because we seem to be going [...] [comments]
Posted Tuesday, January 26, 2010 @ 11:48 am
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