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Returning or Rejecting Wine Occasionally in a restaurant a wine server will open a bottle that just doesn’t taste right. It can also happen with a bottle you’ve brought home from a retail store. The off taste can be caused by any number of things, ranging from “cork taint” to poor handling. Whatever the cause, as a consumer you [...]
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Wine and Corn Yesterday the first sweet corn of the season arrived at our roadside stand from nearby Washington County. It came from a farm with no corporate connections and from a county noted for the sweetness of its corn, the best of which has both yellow and white kernels.
There was nothing to do but serve it on the [...]
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Consistency and Reliability There are certain wines in all price categories with which we learn to feel comfortable because we can depend on them to meet our expectations. They are consistent from vintage to vintage and are never compromised by trends. Those of you who watched our video with Jim Callahan of Burgess Cellars (December 23, 2008, still in [...]
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