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This is a white wine for red wine drinkers. This isn’t to say that white wine drinkers will not enjoy it as well, I’m simply pointing out that the red wine drinkers will be the group most impressed by this Freemark Abbey offering. It has the style any high-end Viognier should have and it came [...]

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95% Garganega and 5% Trebbiano di Soave (Verdicchio) this wine was probably one of the best whites from Verona in the Veneto region of Italy I have ever tasted. It might be overlooked for its light but distinctive flavors by wine consumers who are a little light in the wallet or need a hammer over [...]

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This Soave is 100% Garganega fruit. The average age of the vineyard is 25 years, and the fruit is fermented at cold temperatures in stainless steel and a bit of late harvested fruit added to bring some complexity to the overall package. The opening aromas are peachy, clean and slightly intense, fading into straw and [...]

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This is a summer quaffer that is a workhorse of a wine. I recommend this for restaurant “by the glass” (BTG) programs and any social occasion that calls for clean flavors. Both those duties would be easy work for this white wine, which is 100% Sauvignon Blanc. A lemon-lime passion fruit palate that will please [...]

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If you are looking to try something new, the white grape variety Grechetto from the Italian producer Arnaldo-Caprai is a good example of what this grape can produce. Primarily grown in central Italy, its generally blended with Trebbiano, Verdello and Malvasia but this producer prefers to forgo the blending and make a 100% Grechetto. What [...]

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Last weekend, my daughter brought some members of her Olympia (WA) wine tasting club to Oregon for the first time. The objective was to taste some good Pinots Noir, and we certainly did that. But, the show-stealers in this tour were several white wines. This column is about a winery tour, so we’ll avoid the [...]

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