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Taste Test: Alcohol-Free Sparkling Wines

Imbibe Magazine

The caliber of many widely available NA sparkling wines has improved dramatically in recent years, making it easier than ever to pop bottles everyone can enjoy. It has the most wine-centric nose of the bottles we tasted, with white grape juice and tart lemon rind followed by faint floral and red berry notes. . $44,

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8 of the Best Red Wines From Italy’s Puglia

VinePair

It says something when a well-known TV series about Italian food, in an episode about Puglia, ignores the wines of the region in the heel of the boot of southern Italy. But the wines? I guess the show’s host (a well-known actor) and producers must have figured that Puglia is still a backwater region when it comes to wine.

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The Countries That Produce The Most Red and White Wine

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The International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) released its most recent update on wine production data last week, which showcases the changing production patterns of red, white, and rosé wine over the past two decades. Italy is currently in the lead for largest producer of red wine, accounting for 17.3 percent.

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Are ‘Legendary Vintages’ Becoming a Tired Wine Marketing Cliche?

VinePair

Even a wine novice can wrap their head around the mystique of a game-changing moment in time or a deliciously Gallic middle finger to the freshly defeated Reich. But besides these rarities, we’ve been spoiled rotten over the past 20 years by a crate full of vintages trumpeted as legendary by the wine industry and media.

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The VinePair Podcast: Is Napa’s Cult Wine Bubble Close to Popping?

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It’s all about the lifestyle and exclusivity, even if the wines themselves aren’t always that great. On this episode of the “VinePair Podcast,” Adam, Joanna, and Zach respond to a listener’s question about recent and significant increases in the prices of several cult Napa Valley wines. appeared first on VinePair.

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Cava Reclaims Its Identity and Charts a New Way Forward

Imbibe Magazine

On his and the other organic vineyards from which he sources, he hand-harvests separate lots, then micro-ferments them with native yeast to create the palette of wines he blends for Cava in the off-grid cellar he built into the bones of a 19th-century winery on his estate. Still others labeled their wines D.O. In response, the D.O.

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Where to Drink in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Imbibe Magazine

Achilles Heel Before the Greenpoint riverfront was a near unbroken string of high-rise condos, restaurateur Andrew Tarlow (Diner, She Wolf, Marlow & Sons), opened Achilles Heel in 2013 on a tucked-away side street. Lise & Vito If your query is where to find natural wine in Greenpoint, the answer is … well, virtually anywhere.

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