I was in the liquor store today buying a couple bottles of wine.
Typically my strategy when buying wine is to buy a few bottles of a wine I know that I like, just to have it in my pocket if company shows up. I don’t like to pilot a new bottle with company.
Then I […]

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The 2008 Philadelphia Wine Festival is today. The beneficiary this year is the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the best children’s hospitals in the country.
Lots of good wineries present - and an extra-special liquor store set up by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, one of the most over-bearing and ridiculous monopolies in […]

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Lia over at Swirling Notions has a great introduction to how to pair foods with wines. It is short and to the point so you really have no excuse to not read it.
What makes her primer stand out compared to others is that she comes right out and states:
As I’ve mentioned before and […]

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