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Wine Review: Brancott Sauvignon Blanc 2007

by Marisa D'Vari30 July 2008
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“I don’t get it,” said a friend, holding two green-colored bottles of wine in either hand. We are in a wine store on a sunny day in New York City, and the store is buzzing with customers, but not a…

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Review: Stoneleigh Sauvignon Blanc 2007

by Marisa D'Vari28 July 2008
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If you are like most people, it’s hard to wrap your head around the concept of “mineral” in a wine. Most of us do not go around eating stones, or even smelling them. Yet tasting note after tasting note in…

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Wine Review: Neumayer Sauvignon Blanc 2006

by Marisa D'Vari25 July 2008
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“Austria!” a friend exclaims, nearly chocking on his sip of Sauvignon Blanc. “They make Sauvignon Blanc in Austria?!” People have been making wine from the Sauvignon Blanc grape in regions around the world for hundreds of years. For most of…

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New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc

by Marisa D'Vari6 August 2007

Quick! If a restaurant could only put one Sauvignon Blanc on the list, what country would it be from? If you guessed New Zealand, you would be right according to research from MS John Blazon. But according to this Disney…

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Wow from Down Under!

by Marisa D'Vari26 January 2007
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So yesterday I attended a trade tasting and, for the first time, began to dictate tasting notes into my recorder! I bought Dragon Naturally Speaking, not really expecting the software to transcribe my tasting notes perfectly. Actually, the result was…

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