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Four hours to kill at Vienna Airport? Wine & More is the only reasonable option.
There’s only one reasonable option, the delightfully Austrian-sounding Wine & More. It’s a comfortable and snazzy wine, cheese and specialty food shop/café with a decent sized offering of wines by the glass. I tried three but only took notes on two cuvees: Reinisch Reserve 2007 – A cabernet sauvignon/merlot blend from the Johanneshof Reinisch…
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Obama Wines
Keeping with the St. Martin's day theme and before I forget, notes on a few wines that were uncorked before the champagne during the election watching party…
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The 17 wines of Christmas, 2007 Edition
Before it all becomes an even more distant blur, here are some haphazardly scribbled notes on wines enjoyed during the holidays. And what a spectacular wine…
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90 Second Udine Advisor
I had but one regret when I finally visited Udine last weekend: that I hadn’t made it there before. The center of northeast Italy’s Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region, this charming town of just under 100,000 has a lot going for it. Its historic center is well-preserved and maintained; it’s missing lots (most?) of the grit that is common in many Italian…
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60-Second Primorska Cabernet Sauvignon Mini-Challenge
Well, it took a little longer, but not much. For this inaugural mini-challenge, we pit a pair of cabernet sauvignons from Primorje (a quick overview on …
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