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Oak, Oaky Defined

Aroma and flavor that derive from aging in oak casks or barrels. Characterized by smokiness, vanilla, clove or other spices. Should not be overly pronounced.

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Enneagram personality test helps wines fit in

Published September 26, 2008, 1:22 pm, The Star-Ledger

MICHAEL GANGNE/APFApplying the enneagram personality test to your wine will let you know if your choice is an easygoing Peacemaker that goes with any meal or a saucy Challenger that will dominate the table. The 2004 Provenance Vineyards Rutherford Cabernet...

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Napa Valley & Carneros Chardonnay

Published September 26, 2008, 12:30 am, San Francisco Chronicle

Chardonnay is California's most-produced wine. Of the 61 Napa Valley and Carneros Chardonnays we tasted, most were from 2006. Winemakers had plenty of ripe fruit that year, producing a few wines that pushed 15 percent alcohol. Most of our picks showed at...

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Matt Licklider and Kevin O'Connor: Mission: To highlight the potential of extraordinary Chardonnay vineyards

Published September 26, 2008, 12:29 am, San Francisco Chronicle

One of Lioco's founders, Matt Licklider, likes to call their endeavor "the result of a six-year conversation." Holding up the other half of that conversation was Kevin O'Connor, wine director at Spago Beverly Hills. Licklider, who sold mostly French wines for...

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Chardonnay-friendly tweak for a Mexican favorite

Published September 26, 2008, 12:29 am, San Francisco Chronicle

When food and wine pairings are developed in restaurants, the chef comes up with the menu, often inspired by the season's bounty. Then the sommelier partners a wine with each dish. With the Pairings column, I create a dish to match The Chronicle Wine...

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Vintners showcase Chardonnay at its best

Published September 26, 2008, 12:28 am, San Francisco Chronicle

It has become so fashionable to beat up Chardonnay that, really, the fun is gone. I'm not just talking drinkers' drumbeat of ABC - "anything but Chardonnay" - or the persistent mediocrity of most Chardonnays I encounter in the course of trying to find a...

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September 25-October 1, 2008

Published September 25, 2008, 11:56 am, Boulder Weekly

For more than a century, vineyards that blanket rolling uplands in Russia’s prime winemaking region have been afflicted by a Soviet maxim long ago branded into the minds of local vintners.

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Guess Whose Wine Might Appeal to Teenage Girls: Richard Vines

Published September 25, 2008, 10:34 am, Bloomberg

Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Marc Andrea is head sommelier of Angela Hartnett 's Murano, the new London addition to Gordon Ramsay 's empire. Like his boss, he doesn't mince words.

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California dreams can come true

Published September 25, 2008, 1:51 am, Miami Herald

This is the story of a mom-and-pop winery. Adam Lee and Dianna Novy met cute when he was wine buyer for the Nieman Marcus store in Dallas and she worked in its epicure department.

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Argentine winery bursts onto U.S. scene with two new lines

Published September 25, 2008, 1:51 am, Miami Herald

Argentine wines, which tiptoed into the United States 15 years ago with the arrival (first in Miami and then across the country) of its unctuous, savory red wine called malbec, is taking big, bold steps today, with easy-drinking, well-priced reds and light crisp, whites.

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High expectations for Rattlesnake Hills, Washington's newest AVA

Published September 24, 2008, 12:23 am, Seattle Times

Wine writer Paul Gregutt visits Rattlesnake Hills and talks to Gail Puryear, the man most responsible for the region's application to become an official AVA.

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