Sauternes
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This Is Your Brain On Wine
Fermentation &bull Feb 21, 2012
When it comes to wine appreciation, so little, perhaps nothing, is set in stone. This is true for the simple reason that no two brains are alike. The brain, that focal point for interpreting and translating what flows over our taste buds, is as unique as a fingerprint. This was brought home once again upon drinking… Full Story »
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Quickie Review: **** $$$$$ Chateau La Tour Blanche, Sauternes, France, 2009
Spirit of Wine &bull Feb 5, 2012
Wine tastings, reviews, ratings and commentary from around the world... Over a million visitors to more than 1,500 wines already reviewed... Get between me and this wine bottle at your own risk!!" Find today's prices and retail availability for Chateau… Full Story »
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Quickie Review: **** $$$$$ Chateau Guiraud, Sauternes, France, 2009
Spirit of Wine &bull Feb 5, 2012
Wine tastings, reviews, ratings and commentary from around the world... Over a million visitors to more than 1,500 wines already reviewed... Get between me and this wine bottle at your own risk!!" Find today's prices and retail availability for Chateau… Full Story »
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Quickie Review: *** $$$$ Chateau Doisy Daene, Barsac, Sauternes, France, 2009
Spirit of Wine &bull Feb 5, 2012
Wine tastings, reviews, ratings and commentary from around the world... Over a million visitors to more than 1,500 wines already reviewed... Get between me and this wine bottle at your own risk!!" Find today's prices and retail availability for Chateau… Full Story »
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Quickie Review: *** $$$$$ Chateau Climens, Barsac, Sauternes, France, 2009
Spirit of Wine &bull Feb 5, 2012
Wine tastings, reviews, ratings and commentary from around the world... Over a million visitors to more than 1,500 wines already reviewed... Get between me and this wine bottle at your own risk!!" Find today's prices and retail availability for Chateau… Full Story »
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Quickie Review: **+ $$$ Chateau Bastor-Lamontagne, Sauternes, France, 2009
Spirit of Wine &bull Feb 5, 2012
Wine tastings, reviews, ratings and commentary from around the world... Over a million visitors to more than 1,500 wines already reviewed... Get between me and this wine bottle at your own risk!!" Find today's prices and retail availability for Chateau… Full Story »
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Chicago and Wharton in Bordeaux Cup final
Decanter - Wine News &bull Feb 3, 2012
Chicago Business School and the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania have been selected as finalists in the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup. Competitors on the Yale team conferEight American teams competed in the first round of the competition… Full Story »
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Attack of the Winemaking Reality TV Stars (Wine Spectator)
Wine Spectator &bull Feb 2, 2012
Kendall-Jackson's Rick Tigner goes Undercover, the Bachelor takes Unfiltered on a group date, and a Real Housewife wants our attention. Kendall-Jackson president Rick Tigner was the subject of CBS's Undercover Boss this past Sunday, and the wine world has been giving his emotional performance rave reviews. Predictably, most of his experiences didn't go so well (thankfully, Tigner already has a job). We were impressed by the honest (albeit limited) depiction of some of the less-glamorous aspects… Full Story »
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A Visit to Raymond-Lafon
Winedoctor &bull Jan 31, 2012
The combination of 'squelch-and-sink' is not a happy one. There were no such problems today though. Yquem. Chateau. Rayne-Vigneau. Jean-Pierre had illustrious neighbours? Sauternes vineyards on Easter Monday. October 23rd, exactly one year on from that weekend, and the harvest… Full Story »
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Bordeaux battle of the business schools - to the victors go the nobly rotten
Dr Vino's wine blog &bull Jan 27, 2012
The business school students sniffed, swirled and spit the three glasses of Sauternes in front of them. They had come from places like Columbia, Northwestern, Stanford, and Harvard to sit under the tableaux and tapestries at the French Consulate on Fifth Avenue, try wines and answer questions, competing to win the… Full Story »
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#437 Speechless - Ice Cider
The Tasting Note &bull Jan 27, 2012
It isn't often that I'm totally speechless when I try a drink, but it happened today. Usually I love or hate something, think it is boring or want to yell from the rooftops how much I think it is tasty,… Full Story »
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America's Next Top College Wine Club (Wine Spectator)
Wine Spectator &bull Jan 26, 2012
In a salon with high coffered ceilings, silk damask drapes and a chandelier a gorilla could swing on, a panel of judges in burgundy robes and hats looking a bit like cream tartlets presided over a roomful of college students… Full Story »
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Sauternes & Barsac 2007
Winedoctor &bull Jan 24, 2012
The story of 2007 in Bordeaux is one of sorry disappointment enhanced by overly exuberant pricing. At least, that is the case for the red wines. When it comes to the sweet white wines of Bordeaux, however, this is a… Full Story »
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Sotheby's falls short of estimates, Acker bullish
Decanter - Wine News &bull Jan 17, 2012
Sotheby's first wine auction of the year in Hong Kong fell short of pre-sale estimates as buyers turned their backs on top Bordeaux - but the Bordeaux market is healthy, the auction house insists. Domaine de la Romanee Conti 1990: highlightThe sale of… Full Story »
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Chateau Bastor-Lamontagne
Winedoctor &bull Jan 13, 2012
There are few Barsac and Sauternes estates lying outside the two tiers (three if you include Yquem's exalted position at the summit) of the 1855 classification which receive much attention, if indeed any. Indeed, there are quite a number of… Full Story »
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Pessac-Leognan 2007
Winedoctor &bull Jan 10, 2012
The 2007 vintage in Bordeaux was one that favoured the white wines over the red. Of course, there are few white wines produced in the region, at the classed growth level at least, and it is only to Graves and… Full Story »
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A Vintage Wine List Circa 1956
Spittoon &bull Jan 9, 2012
A Vintage Wine List Circa 1956 Fancy a flagon of Safari Burgundy from South Africa or a "very full" Algerian Burgundy? Maybe a Spanish Sauternes is more your tipple? The most expensive still wine on the list is a Berncasteler… Full Story »
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Sweet wines: The Chronicle recommends
SFGate - Wine &bull Dec 16, 2011
This six-pack began as a hunt for Sauternes and Monbazillac, France's two noble sweet wines based on Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon. Those seem to be in short supply on the market - further evidence of sweet wines' tough... Full Story »
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A Wine Lover's 12 Days of Christmas
In the Land of Lynfred &bull Dec 15, 2011
12 snobs sniffing 11 casks a-corking 10 crushers crushing 9 vines a-winding 8 charming chardonnays 7 sommeliers a-serving 6 corkscrews turning 5 golden Sauternes 4 hearty cabernets 3 table wine blends 2 toasting friends ANDa Pinot in a Pear tree! Full Story »
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The Miami Valley wine community loses one of its own
Dayton Daily News - Uncorked &bull Dec 4, 2011Paul Russell, 66, of Kettering, was found dead after his pickup truck crashed on East Sixth Street at the entrance of Jay's Restaurant, 225 E. Sixth St. He had not been in the restaurant or in the Jay's Kitchen Door… Full Story »
