The Practical Stuff: Getting Wine Stains Out

And now, for a practical post that has nothing to do with the enjoyment of wine, and everything to do with making sure an accidental wine spill doesn’t ruin your evening. What do you do if you spill red wine on your clothes (or a guest’s), or on the carpet?  Despite all of the wine

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Best Wine On Little Dime: February

And now for our first ever installment of our monthly feature, Best Wine On Little Dime. My goal for this series will be to help you all explore a new wine grape variety or region on the cheap. I’m setting a VERY strict $10 price limit, which will be a good challenge, as it will

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Your Weekly Wine Geography Lesson

Looking to explore other food-friendly white wines that are also good on their own? Something elegant? Something crisp? Something not too fruity? An obvious choice to add variety to your white wine drinking is the Sauvignon Blanc.   But it shouldn’t And the historical home of this grape is France’s Loire Valley, notably Sancerre. When it

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Wine, calories, and weight control

– By Ron Marks, Resident Wino Well, we made it to February. Did your New Years’ Resolutions make it this far? Made with such hope for the future, so many of them will have been abandoned by now. Why? Often because the resolutions don’t fit with our other desires and priorities, so when conflict arises,

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Wine to Impress

–By Ron Marks, Resident Wino Most of what I have to say about wine drinking involves enjoying wine yourself: tasting it, buying it, learning about it, and making it an enriching part of your life. But what about the opposite situation? What if you need wine to impress in a certain situation? The simplest answer

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