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Dishing up an offer ‘You can’t refuse’
Summertime has come early this year with an extended period of San Diego -like weather, featuring warm temperatures, low humidity and cool nights. As a result, I transitioned earlier than normal from...
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Keep peeling that onion!
When I was a teenager and knew everything there was to know about life, my father, in an attempt to enlighten me said, “Son, life is like an onion, there’s a lot of layers to it, and sometimes it will...
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Teala
During winters when I was growing up in the Northview section of Clarksburg, I remember being forced to eat food I thought had been grown in tin cans. When I refused to eat the limp and tasteless...
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Celebrate Columbus Day with a Super Tuscan!
There’ a nip in the air, multi-colored leaves are falling from the trees and football season is in full swing! It’s officially autumn, and I’m ready for a hearty dinner with full-bodied wine to...
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Inquiring Wino’s want to know: Corks or Screw Caps?
When I first started writing about wine for the Charleston newspapers a few decades ago, my goal was to educate folks that wine should be an everyday accompaniment to meals. Unfortunately, back then,...
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Tips for holiday wine shopping
Every autumn, just before Thanksgiving, Wine Spectator Magazine releases its “Top 100” wines of the year. This year the bottle chosen as the best wine of 2023 comes from Italy. It’s the 2018 Argiano...
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In Vino Veritas
I recently visited California and the vineyard that annually provides the grapes I use to make homemade wine. For the last five years, the quality of those wines has far exceeded anything I’ve ever...
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Valentine’s Day: Forget it at your peril!
I’m issuing a critically important alert to folks who share my gender: Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and you better be ready! Men, believe me when I say that special person in your life takes...
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Bravo Marcello! Grazie Mille
Discovering the symbiotic relationship between wine and food is one of life’s exquisite pleasures. While I’ve always enjoyed eating, I was not always a fan of wine. As a matter of fact, it took me...
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Perfect Wines for Rack of Pork Agrodolce
Homo sapiens are complex beings. We like to think that we know what we like, and then we change our minds and make choices that surprise us. Take wine for example. For years, I had an aversion to...
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