Uncorked
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A motel to remember: Spending the night inside a wine barrel
After a wine-soaked evening, how better to get a restful nights sleep than to curl up inside a wine barrel? Check out this TreeHugger.com story entitled Recycled Hotel Rooms from Wine Barrels for the Oenophile. Great photos. What will they...
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The resurrection of traditional Barolo
Best wine read on the web today: this winereviewonline.com piece from Ed McCarthy entitled The Return of Traditional Barolos. Ed pulls no punches here and he names names....
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Debonne's Debevc joins Ohio Grape Industries Commission
The fine folks at the Ohio Department of Agriculture sent along the following news release that will be of interest to those who follow the Ohio wine industry: Director Boggs Appoints New Grape Industries Committee Member Ohio Department of Agriculture...
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Just how gullible are wine drinkers, anyway?
I was browsing through my Sunday paper yesterday (1-4-09) when a few sentences in a Parade magazine article entitled How Subliminal Advertising Works stopped me in my tracks: Music also can direct us to certain products. For example, it can...
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The inaugural wine tastings list of 2009
Are you excited? Im excited. Heres the best list of Dayton-area wine tastings, dinners and other special events that exists anywhere in the world, and it comes to Uncorked courtesy of the heroic efforts of the local listserv administrator who...
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Here's my NYEve wine -- what was yours?
Heres the bottle of wine I chose to ring in the new year with: the 1998 Domaine Grand Veneur Chateauneuf-du-Pape Les Origines. The wine came within about four hours of making it into its second decade of life before I...
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Hangover cures from around the world
From of all people the folks at National Geographic comes this piece entitled Hangover Helpers: Around the world, suggestions abound for how to cope with the effects of one too many. Sour pickle juice? Tripe? Whats your best...
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DLM Champagne and sparkling wine tasting, in review
Golly gee whiz, there were about two dozen sparklers strutting their stuff tonight (12-29-08) at the Dorothy Lane Market Champagne and sparkling wine tasting at the DLM Oakwood store. Lots of great stuff. A few of my favorites: H. Billiot...
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Christmas/New Year's week wine tastings
Is this not the best time of year? And how very generous of the wine shops and restaurants to make it even better with the following tastings and special events, compiled painstakingly by a Dayton-based listserv and available to you...
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Favorite sparklers -- mine and yours
A little help, if you please. Do you have a favorite sparkler that is available on local wine shelves? Im writing a short piece that will run in the Dec. 30 Dayton Daily News on the best sparkling wines for...
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Michigan lawmakers' wine follies
It was Michigan, of course, that led the way to the current brouhaha over wine shipping, in the so-called Granholm case decided murkily by the U.S. Supreme Court. Now Michigan is making headlines again, this time after the Michigan Legislature...
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Holiday cheer, in the form of wine tastings and special restaurant events
The holidays have prompted some local wine shops and grocers to cancel some of their regularly scheduled tastings (sigh so now we wine lovers are chopped liver?), but there are still plenty enough events to help us ring in...
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The mysterious connection between women and Champagne
The best wine read on the web this week is entitled How Women Transformed Champagne, written by Michael Apstein for Wine Review Online. The story chronicles how women have played a pivotal role in the formulation and development of Champagne...
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Brits drink more American wine than French
Im always amazed that the British drink so much Australian wine it is their top wine of choice, ahead of France, Italy, America, Portugal, Germany you name it. But now, theres a new number two. More American wine...
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Wine tastings to help quell the holiday madness
You need them. We got em, thanks to a Dayton-based wine listserv and to the wine retailers and restaurants who go out of their way to make us happy, even during stressful times. (speaking of which, my apologies for the...
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Italy poised to wrestle top wine-producing nation status away from France
The Associated Press reports that Italy may become worlds biggest wine producer, surpassing France for the first time in a decade. Production projections are up 8 percent in Italy following a bumper crop (Mamma Mia!) and down 5 percent in...
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Wine as hedge fund: If the Dow drops, you get a rebate on 'Bailout' Napa cab
I am not making this up. You can buy futures of Bailout Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon now, and if the stock market tanks between now and the wines release, youll get a rebate, also known as stimulus checks, to wit:...
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Death at The Greene triggers a lawsuit to ponder
If you didnt see this story in this mornings newspaper, check out the piece from my colleague Christopher Magan headlined Lawsuit filed after death at The Greene. It is .. it is well, it is worth reading....
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Europeans guzzling beer like they're at an Animal House frat party, study says
Take a look at this Wall Street Journal story headlined Europes Changing Drinking Habits: More Beer, Less Wine, Few Regrets . The storys lede says it all: Europeans are supposed to sip wine in sidewalk cafes, not guzzle beer like...
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Today's the day to lift a glass to the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition
Heres a sneak peek at a story that is scheduled to run in the Dayton Daily News tomorrow, on Friday, Dec. 5: And it just happens to fall on a Friday . Today, Dec. 5, marks the 75th anniversary...
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