
Talk-A-Vino
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This is a blog about wine, food, and life. I plan to talk here about wine. As a glass of wine is part of my daily routine, I usually rate the wines I drink. I plan to talk about places where wine is made when I'm lucky enough to visit them. I also plan to talk about good places to buy the wine as long as your definition of good at least partially depends on value, or QPR, we will do just fine.
Talk-A-Vino
1w ago
Have you heard of the grape called Marselan? If you have – great, pat yourself on the back as you are ahead of many wine lovers. If you have not – even better, as we are going to fix it right now. Some grapes have been around seemingly forever (the winemaking is getting older and ..read more
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1M ago
It all started with a few tweets. I noticed a very high praise for the German Pinot Noirs shared by some of the European wine lovers I’m connected to on Twitter (still can’t make myself call it X, so you will have to forgive me for that). Particularly, Pinot Noir from Ahr was regarded as ..read more
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1M ago
New Year is my favorite celebration. It is simply a celebration of life as it happens. Forget all this “new year, new you” nonsense, forget all the resolutions – new year resolutions don’t work, you can’t do something once in 365 days and expect that the effect will last for the next 364. So the ..read more
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1M ago
I want to take a moment to wish everyone a healthy, peaceful, happy New Year 2025, filled with amazing experiences, wonderful, memorable life moments, good conversations, loving families and friends, and very importantly, delicious, memorable wines ..read more
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1M ago
See how well this rhymes? Top 24 of 2024. When I posted my list of top wines of the year for the first time in 2010, the desire was to create a list of top 10 wines. This was almost successful, as the list included 12 wines, so I decided that “my thing” would be ..read more
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1M ago
Do you know what makes an oenophile’s heart melt and pound, what fills it with joy? Hearing their friends say after you pour the wine into their glasses “Oh my god, this is so good!” This brings a double pleasure – it is not only you now getting the pleasure from the aroma and the ..read more
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1M ago
Do you like numbers? Do you like to play with numbers? I do – so let’s have a bit of a [almost traditional] fun with wine numbers. I’m talking about analyzing the Top 100 lists from the major wine publications. Top 100 is one of the most anticipated and coveted topics in the wine world ..read more
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1M ago
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. True that. But sometimes, we have no idea about the journey. We just take a step without putting much thought into it. It is only later on, while looking back, we realize that those were not just some random steps. The journey is going ..read more
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1M ago
I can’t speak for all oenophiles, but at least speaking about moi, there is one question that I dread the most: What is your favorite wine? This is not a question I ever want to hear – of course, as soon as people figure that you are “into wine”, this is the question everyone thinks ..read more
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2M ago
German Pinot Noirs are hard to find in the US. This story is not about Geman Pinot Noir, but the quest for one played a major role here. I follow a group of wine-os on Twitter X who are swearing by Pinot Noir from Germany, particularly from Ahr, being the best Pinot Noir in the ..read more