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After a long summer break, #VinQ commences on Tuesday, September 20. Don’t be late to class! What is #VinQ? It is a live wine game that takes place on Twitter and features interactive discussion via Tweets with wine educator Pamela Heiligenthal of Enobytes Wine Online. Here is the scoop… WHAT is #VinQ: Some call it [...]

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Are you looking for a few great food and wine pairing suggestions? Vegetarians and carnivores alike will enjoy the suggestions found in the September 2011 issue of Vegetarian Times. The magazine highlights cutting-edge, unconventional vegetarian food and wine pairings, which I think you will really enjoy. The magazine quizzed a few experts, including myself, on [...]

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When it comes to learning about grape varieties, it is hard to find an educational tool that kicks butt. Sure, there are many great books to get the job done, but sometimes adding a web interface and some audio can take it from dreary to delightful. Take the Wines of Portugal site. They have a [...]

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The more I speak to people who are working in the wine industry in Argentina and Chile the more excited I get about what is still yet to come. With several centuries of viticulture under their belts both of these areas are still relatively new regions for many Americans and certainly for emerging eastern markets [...]

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Seminar 12: ‘Fortified’ presented by Colin Campbell and Stephen Chambers If you had to name the most underappreciated category of Australian wine in existence today, it would have to be the country’s beautiful fortified wines. Sadly, this is both the case internationally and also domestically in Australia, apart from among the dedicated bunch of followers [...]

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Seminar 11: ‘Chardonnay’ Blind-Tasting presented by Steve Webber If Pinot Noir has undergone a quality and stylistic revolution in Australia in the last decade, the faces of Australian Chardonnay have never been more exciting or diverse. Of course, the category ‘Australian Chardonnay’ has much more meaning at entry-level, not least for South-Eastern Australian blends, than [...]

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