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May 2013 (5)
		

			
22: 2010 Relic Wines
			
18: A Vertical of Forman Wines
			
13: Tasted some interesting Greek wines today
			
10: A Tasting of Italian RED “Country” Wines  05-09-13
			
02: 2011 Witching Stick Pinot Noirs
		
	
	
April 2013 (3)
		

			
20: A Wine Dinner with 2 Female French winemakers
			
10: A Different Perspective on Bordeaux wines  03-07-13
			
06: Some thoughts on Pinot Noir–the Martini selection (0)
		
	
	
March 2013 (12)
		

			
30: Fred Scherrer & His Wines 03-29-13 (0)
			
30: Forman Wines  03-30-13 (0)
			
30: Fritz Haag  03-30-13
			
29: a blurb from Winophilia…..03-28-13
			
29: Light, Delicious Red Wines  03-28-13
			
24: A Different perspective on Red Burgundy
			
23: Older Chiantis from Felsina Berardenga  03-22-13
			
19: New Releases  03-18-13
			
13: Old Friends  03-10-13
			
10: Roasted Dungeness Crab & Wine  03-10-13
			
08: An Article from Winophilia  03-07-13
			
02: An Article from Midweek Magazine   02-28-13
		
	
	
February 2013 (10)
		

			
28: 2 Terrific 1997 Tuscan Standouts  02-27-13
			
26: Braised Lamb Shank & Wine   02-25-13
			
24: It’s always good to see some long time friends
			
20: An Article from Winophilia on Pairing wine with cassoulet  02-19-13
			
17: 2 Burgundy Producers to watch out for   02-16-13
			
14: Octopus & Wine  02-10-13
			
14: Chateau Gombaude-Guillot  02-13-13
			
09: Braised Chicken & Wine   02-08-13
			
08: 2 Sicilian Red Wine Discoveries   02-01-13
			
03: Fontodi Chianti Classico  01-25-13
		
	
	
January 2013 (7)
		

			
29: a DUO of Durell Vineyard Chardonnays  01-18-13
			
28: 2010 Witching Stick Rosato  01-14-13
			
13: Mediterranean-esque White Wines  01-10-13
			
13: Birbet   01-11-13
			
11: Standout Rustic French Red Wines  01-10-13
			
05: A Winetasting with James Ontiveros of Alta Maria/Native9/Autonom  01-04-13
			
01: An article from Winophilia  12-31-12
		
	
	
December 2012 (6)
		

			
29: Older wines  12-28-12
			
25: Older Wines
			
21: 2003 Brunello di Montalcino
			
20: Older Wines
			
14: An article from Winophilia
			
14: New Pinot Noir faces
		
	
	
November 2012 (11)
		

			
30: Older Californian Wines
			
29: Zinfandel
			
29: Older Red Wines
			
29: Older White Wines
			
25: Some interesting vineyards in California
			
22: 3 CF white wines from Germany
			
17: An Article from Winophilia
			
12: Carol Shelton
			
04: an article from winophilia
			
04: an article from winophilia
			
01: Beer Tasting with Grant Curlow & Erin Suzuki
		
	
	
October 2012 (8)
		

			
28: 3 Recommended New York Restaurants
			
24: 2010 Neyers Chardonnay “Il Novillero”
			
21: Some Older wines
			
18: 3 Italian Red Wines
			
18: Two terrific, value oriented 2009 Bordeaux
			
18: Autonom Wines
			
17: Linne Calodo
			
14: Reinhold Haart
		
	
	
September 2012 (6)
		

			
28: Paul Fuerst of Franconia, Germany
			
27: Bert Selbach & Dr. F Weins-Pruem
			
16: 2010 Witching Stick Zinfandel
			
13: Older White Burgundies
			
09: Older Rustic Reds
			
08: Older White Burgundy
		
	
	
August 2012 (18)
		

			
31: 2009 Rustic Reds from France
			
29: A tasting of Older wines
			
29: Apparent sweetness & Bottle age
			
26: Older Rustic Red Wines
			
23: 2009 Clape Cornas
			
22: Harvesting grapes on Cote Rotie
			
19: 1986 Chateau Lafite Rothschild
			
19: Something interesting to read from Winophilia
			
19: Domaine Comtesse Bernard de Chérisey.
			
18: 1995 Chateau Monbousquet
			
17: More Grower Champagnes
			
17: Ornellaia
			
09: 1990 Gentaz Dervieux Cote Rotie
			
08: An Article from Midweek Magazine
			
07: 1993 Noel Verset Cornas
			
04: 1994 Domaine Tempier Bandol “Cabassaou”
			
04: A Tasting of 2004 Tuscan Red Wines
			
02: Beaujolais
		
	
	
July 2012 (89)
		

			
28: Where the Russian River meets the Pacific Ocean
			
28: Josef Leitz’s vineyards in Rudesheim
			
23: an interesting article from Winophilia
			
23: Harens Old Tree Estate Kona Coffee
			
23: Clos Ste Magdeleine Cassis
			
22: 2008 Pinot Noirs
			
22: 1995 Aldo Conterno Barolo
			
22: A Duo of 1976 German Riesling
			
22: Older Dom Perignon
			
22: Some Older Pinot Noirs
			
22: Understanding Wine 301
			
22: Understanding Wine 201
			
22: Understanding Wine 101
			
21: Knez wines
			
20: A cross section of Maxime Magnon’s vineyard down in Corbieres
			
19: A new Rose worth seeking out
			
19: Sandhi Wines
			
15: The newest CF Wine release
			
15: Morning Dew Ranch Pinot Noir (0)
			
14: German wines (0)
			
14: Tasting wines in Paso Robles (0)
			
14: One of Movia’s vineyards in Slovenia (0)
			
14: Last Night’s Champagne tasting @ VINO (0)
			
12: Pink wines (0)
			
12: NEW ARRIVALS (0)
			
12: Sparkling wines–staff training at DK Steakhouse (0)
			
10: The fractured silaceous soils of the Epoch Estate vineyard (0)
			
10: A Cornas hillside (Reynard to the left) (0)
			
10: Schloss Lieser Niederberg Helden vineyard in the Mosel River region of Germany (0)
			
10: Schlossbockelheimer Felsenberg in the Nahe region of Germany (0)
			
10: Saxum’s Bone Rock (Paso Robles) (0)
			
10: Premier Cru Genellottes vineyard in Meursault (0)
			
10: Romanee Conti (0)
			
10: the Peay estate vineyard (Sonoma Coast) (0)
			
10: Stolpman Vineyard in Ballard Canyon (Santa Barbara) (0)
			
10: La Crau vineyard (Chateauneuf-du-Pape) (0)
			
10: Hirsch Vineyard (the true Sonoma Coast) (0)
			
10: Hochheimer Stielweg vineyard (Rheingau, Germany) (0)
			
10: Port vineyards (0)
			
10: Il Novillero Vineyard  (southern Sonoma) (0)
			
10: James Berry vineyard down in Paso Robles (0)
			
10: On Top of Bien Nacido vineyard looking down (0)
			
10: Papera Vineyard (Zinfandel) (0)
			
10: Malvira’s vineyard in Roero….Piemonte, Italy (0)
			
10: La Viarte’s vineyard in the Colli Orientale….Friuli, (0)
			
10: Hermitage Hill   (Rhone Valley, France) (0)
			
10: Helderberg Mountain in Stellenbosch, South Africa (0)
			
10: Graacher Domprobst (Mosel River, Germany) (0)
			
10: Forman’s estate Cabernet planting (Napa Valley) (0)
			
10: Evening Land’s Santa Barbara vineyard (0)
			
10: Domaine Tempier’s vineyard around their house (Provence, France) (0)
			
10: Denner vineyard (Paso Robles) (0)
			
10: Cornas  (Rhone Valley, France) (0)
			
10: How steep are the vineyards of Germany? (0)
			
10: Fossiled whale bone in Paso Robles (0)
			
10: Clos Ste Magdeleine’s estate vineyard in Cassis (Provence, France) (0)
			
10: Clos Ste Magdeleine’s vineyard in Cassis…limestone (0)
			
10: Cavallotto’s Bricco Boschis vineyard in Barolo (0)
			
10: Albino Rocca’s Brich Ronchi vineyard in Barbaresco (0)
			
10: Cantina Terlan (Alto Adige, Italy) (0)
			
10: Chablis Grand Cru (0)
			
10: Birichino’s 100 year old Grenache vine (Monterey) (0)
			
10: 100 year old Petite Sirah vine in Frediani vineyard (Napa Valley across a small road from Araujo’s Eislese Vineyard) (0)
			
10: left side is Chassagne Montrachet village AOC…….the right side is Montrachet Grand Cru (0)
			
10: Daniel Brunier (Domaine Vieux Telegraphe) (0)
			
10: A Trio of superstars–Chef Roy Yamaguchi, winemaker Greg Brewer & sommelier Rajat Parr (0)
			
10: A note from Bruce Neyers on winemaking (0)
			
10: Winemaker Jason Drew & Burt Williams (founding winemaker of Williams & Selyem) (0)
			
10: Rene Rostaing (Cote Rotie) (0)
			
10: Olivier Clape  (Cornas) (0)
			
10: Zilliken’s wine cellar (0)
			
10: “gang of four” (from left to right–Jean Foillard, Jean Thevenet, Guy Breton, Marcel Lapierre & Jean Jacques Robert & (Charly Thevenet in the front) (0)
			
10: Napa Valley icon Bill Smith (WH Smith & formerly La Jota) (0)
			
10: Italian winemaking icon–Vittorio Fiore (0)
			
10: Musigny  (Burgundy, France) (0)
			
10: Didier Barral (radical, “new age” winemaker from Faugeres, France) (0)
			
10: Patrick Jasmin  (Cote Rotie) (0)
			
10: Clos Vougeot  (Burgundy, France) (0)
			
10: Hermitage has several different kinds of soils (0)
			
10: Spanish “vinyes velles” (old vines) (0)
			
10: Spanish wine vats (0)
			
10: Chambolle Musigny  (Burgundy, France) (0)
			
10: Lunch @ Domaine Tempier (0)
			
10: Superstar winemaker Helmut Donnhoff  (Nahe, Germany) (0)
			
10: How does one harvest grapes up on the steep Cote Rotie hillside? (0)
			
10: Beaujolais (0)
			
09: A different way of rating wines (0)
			
04: Stephen Tanzer’s Winophilia (0)
			
04: an article from starchefs.com (0)