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Grapes 34% Chardonnay, 33% Renski Riesling, 33% Pinot Gris Facts Ahhh yes! There’s nothing better than getting home from a hard day’s graft ( after staring at a computer for most of the day) than to kick off my shoes, and reaching for a bottle of Kupljen “Spirit of Svetinje” from the Jeruzalemsko-Svetinjske hills of north-eastern Slovenia… Ok, so that’s a lie. Firstly, I mainly work out of my house, so my shoes…
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I get the feeling this is going to be one of the last summer pairings I create, at least for 2012. It’s started to cool off a little here in Jacksonville, and I feel myself slowly gravitating towards “heartier” meals/wines. Not that that’s a bad thing! I’m definitely much more of a red drinker, but this year I’ve made an extra effort to drink more whites and also feature more meals which would pair accordingly….
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Grapes 100% Pinot Gris Facts It’s very rare that you’ll stumble across single-vineyard, “estate-grown” wines for under $15, but if you do, you should jump at the chance to pickup a bottle! The simple reason is that the more specific a wine gets (with its place of origin), the more expensive it usually gets. Not with Willow Crest though, as most of their wines completely annihilate the competition in the price-to-quality ratio game. Even…
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Grapes 36% Semillon, 20% Muscat, 20% Gewürztraminer, 20% Pinot Gris and 4% Chardonnay. Facts I’ve been a big fan of the Peter Lehmann brand for a few years now. Their “Art Series” represents some of most value-driven, well-distributed and thoroughly “glug-worthy” wines coming out of Oz…. The same kind of “kitchen-sinky” blend as Conundrum, and I’m taking a wild-stab-in-the-dark guess that “Layers” refers to the layers of flavor achieved through the blending of these…
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Wine La Fiera Grape 100% Pinot Grigio Place Veneto, Italy Price $11.99 Imported through Wine Sellers
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The Mrs.and I have been on a little bit of a healthy-eating kick since the start of the year. We didn’t make a formal resolution, we stopped doing that a while ago. Everyone seems to more-or-less make the same promises to themselves each year, and normally end up breaking them after just a few weeks. All that I’m personally looking to achieve is to lose a few pounds through healthy eating and exercise, whilst…
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Grape 100% Pinot Gris [Pee-no Gree] The word "Pinot", comes from the French word for pinecone" The grape grows in small pinecone shaped bunches on the vine. Grigio (Italian) or Gris (Everywhere Else) eludes to the unusual grey-blue color of the grapes. Facts Even though Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris are the same grape, the differences in the wines produced from these grapes can be huge. Pinot Grigio is the Italian version of the…
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