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Great Wines When You’re Grilling: Beef & Lamb

Great Wines When You’re Grilling: Beef & Lamb

Check out our more recent addition (with up-to-date reviews) of Great Wines When You’re Grilling  For our third and final installment of Great Wines When...

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Great Wines When You’re Grilling: Chicken & Pork

Great Wines When You’re Grilling: Chicken & Pork

Check out our more recent addition (with up-to-date reviews) of Great Wines When You’re Grilling  For this next installment of great wines when you’re...

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Great Wines When You’re Grilling: Seafood

Great Wines When You’re Grilling: Seafood

Check out our more recent addition (with up-to-date reviews) of Great Wines When You’re Grilling  On a summer day, when the sun is out, the sky is free...

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David Coffaro Winery: Straightforward & Unconventional

David Coffaro Winery: Straightforward & Unconventional

In the world of wine, it’s fashionable to say you’re unique. Many wineries will promote a story about what sets them apart from all the rest. In other...

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Ferrari-Carano: An Excellent Pairing

Ferrari-Carano: An Excellent Pairing

At Ferrari-Carano Winery, in Sonoma County, Aaron Piotter makes the red wines and Sarah Quider the whites. Yet, their time is spent in rather different worlds. Aaron...

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Finding the Right Blend: Kerry Damskey &  Dutcher Crossing

Finding the Right Blend: Kerry Damskey & Dutcher Crossing

For Kerry Damskey, winemaker at Dutcher Crossing in the Dry Creek Valley of California, a key element of making wine is the ability to be very honest with yourself....

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Up in the Mountains but Under the Radar

Up in the Mountains but Under the Radar

The Santa Cruz Mountains, running along California’s central coast, have a long history with wine. Back in the 1870’s a man named John Jarvis came to...

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Italian Varietals Making Real Strides in California

Italian Varietals Making Real Strides in California

  In California, with all the Chardonnay, Cabernet, Pinot Noir, and Sauvignon Blanc out there, sometimes it’s easy to overlook the amount of variety in the...

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Ampelos Cellars: A Dream that Turned Very Green

Ampelos Cellars: A Dream that Turned Very Green

 Rebecca and her husband Peter Work started out in the corporate I.T world. They liked wine a great deal and would travel around, attending seminars and tastings...

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Whitcraft Winery: Wine – Pure & Simple

Whitcraft Winery: Wine – Pure & Simple

Even during his childhood, wine was a part of Drake Whitcraft’s life. He was still in elementary school the first time he helped out in the cellar of his parents’...

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