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    Men Are From Cab, Women Are From Moscato? WSJ.com

    MANY YEARS AGO, when I first met the wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr., he told me something that I have never forgotten. "My wife, Pat, has a much better palate than I do," he said. (Was it really possible that the most influential wine ...

  • Jonathan Nossiter Casts His Critical Eye WSJ.com

    It has been 10 years since Jonathan Nossiter picked up a digital camcorder and critically captured the impact of globalization and its homogenizing effect on the wine industry. The result was more than 500 hours of footage, recorded in the ...

  • Chinese Wine Makes Strides WSJ Blogs

    Chinese vineyards are slowly gaining the respect of the wine world. Long written off as plonk, wines from China garnered 19 medals at the latest Decanter World Wine Awards in London, up from just 11 last year. Chateau Reifeng-Auzias, located ...

  • Hard cider and wine will flow as Robinette's celebrates its Centennial Farm designation WSJM

    GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Robinette’s Apple Haus and Winery is celebrating its 100th anniversary at noon today with free wine-tasting and refreshments to celebrate its designation as a Michigan Centennial Farm.

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    Bobotie, South Africa's Meaty Pie; This classic comfort food, decked out with eggy custard and Malaysian spices, puts spring lamb to beautiful use WSJ.com

    AT THE END OF 2005, I packed my bags for a New Year's trip to Cape Town with one of my closest childhood friends. "You'll have bobotie," my mom said. I asked her what that was. "It's like the national dish of South Africa," she said. "It ...

  • Stylishly Short WSJ.com

    Everything in New York is bigger and brighter than it is in the rest of the world—or at least it seems like that. New York presents large. This principle applies even to the city's wine lists. In fact, I'd venture to guess that these days ...

  • New Of-the-Month Clubs: Worth It? Deal of the Day: Start-ups have moved beyond wine and fruit baskets, but costs often still run high. SmartMoney.com

    Some send a pair of shoes each month. Others deliver gourmet marshmallows, bacon or baby food. And then there are the personal grooming clubs, which send a month's worth of moisturizer and other skincare products.

  • St. Julian winery wins top award at Riverside International Wine Competition WSJM

    Gazette fileSt. Julian Wine Co. was awarded 'Best Sweet' Riesling at the Riverside International Wine Competition. The Paw Paw winery also won Best of Class and a Chairman's Award at the three-day California festival.

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    Lentil Soup With Aioli Toasts WSJ.com

    LENTILS, AMONG THE TINIEST of legumes, serve as the base of a big-flavored, aromatic soup that requires no broth, no shopping for rare ingredients and only a minimal amount of slicing and stirring.

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    Where Wine Lives: Cellar, Fridge—or Garage? WSJ.com

    THERE ARE PEOPLE for whom the wine cellar is every bit as important as the wine. The cellars of such people tend to be carpeted, mirrored and lit by chandeliers. They may also be accessorized with Old Master paintings, Roman statues and ...

  • Explaining the Aromas and Flavors of Wine WSJ.com

    Wine often reveals a cornucopia of flavors. Watching a connoisseur identify these may induce a few sniggers, but a fine wine can boast several competing aromas, all jostling for attention in the glass. These can range from fruit (apple, ...

  • A Summer Fling: Cru Beaujolais WSJ.com

    "THE NEGOTIANTS USED to deduct 10 francs from the price of a barrel because the road was so steep," says Vincent Audras of Le Clos de Haute-Combe, a cheerful octogenarian, looking down the precipitous slope just in front of his stone ...

  • Breaking the Food-and-Wine-Matching Rules WSJ.com

    There isn't an exact science behind choosing wine at a restaurant but I'm guessing that when most of us step inside the dining room we select the dish we want to eat first and then a wine to accompany it. What happens when you reverse the ...

  • Drinking Now WSJ.com

    Everyday Drinking Vinhão Tinto Afros Vasco Croft, Vinho Verde, Portugal Vintage: 2010 Alcohol: 12.5% Price: Around £14 or €17 Northern Portugal can boast a long tradition of producing scintillating, bright, easy-to-drink white wines. The Afros ...

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    Is the Bottle Half Full or Half Empty? WSJ.com

    IF A BOTTLE OF wine can evoke an emotion (and I believe that it can), the feeling that I get when I look at a half-bottle is, frankly, sad. All I can think about is the half that's missing, and the fact that two people can have just about ...

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