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Winey Tasting Notes: Cooper Station Red and Downton Abbey

I’ll put it right out there: I LOVE DOWNTON ABBEY! Every Sunday morning at church, I give a little prayer of thanks that another episode will be showing that night. I love the whole idea of a classy soap opera spoken in English accents. I love the fashions. AND I love Maggie Smith as the…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Post-Thanksgiving With Kidder Family Wines Duet

Every year many words are written about which wine to pair with the Thanksgiving feast. You’ll get almost as many opinions about this as there are wine bottles in France. And Italy. Combined. I don’t mean to sound really wimpy about this and all, but when it comes to Turkey Day, it’s best to sip…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Post-Thanksgiving With Kidder Family Wines Duet

Every year many words are written about which wine to pair with the Thanksgiving feast. You’ll get almost as many opinions about this as there are wine bottles in France. And Italy. Combined. I don’t mean to sound really wimpy about this and all, but when it comes to Turkey Day, it’s best to sip…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Post-Thanksgiving With Kidder Family Wines Duet

Every year many words are written about which wine to pair with the Thanksgiving feast. You’ll get almost as many opinions about this as there are wine bottles in France. And Italy. Combined. I don’t mean to sound really wimpy about this and all, but when it comes to Turkey Day, it’s best to sip…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Getting Cryptic (NEW FAVORITE ALERT!)

According to the Cryptic wine website, “Encryption is the conversion of a message from readable form into a mysterious puzzle”. To me, this usually means math. And that includes balancing the Winey Family checkbook, a job which was yanked from me over a quarter of a century ago. The Winey children were also told (by their…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Getting Cryptic (NEW FAVORITE ALERT!)

According to the Cryptic wine website, “Encryption is the conversion of a message from readable form into a mysterious puzzle”. To me, this usually means math. And that includes balancing the Winey Family checkbook, a job which was yanked from me over a quarter of a century ago. The Winey children were also told (by their…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Getting Cryptic (NEW FAVORITE ALERT!)

According to the Cryptic wine website, “Encryption is the conversion of a message from readable form into a mysterious puzzle”. To me, this usually means math. And that includes balancing the Winey Family checkbook, a job which was yanked from me over a quarter of a century ago. The Winey children were also told (by their…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Sipping Some Tuscan Bargains

I have freely admitted before that I am a bit, OK, woefully, lacking when it comes to my Italian wine tasting skills. Maybe it’s because I don’t think to make myself look for Italian wines specifically. Maybe it’s because they all have such long hard to pronounce words on the labels (and yes, German wines…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Sipping Some Tuscan Bargains

I have freely admitted before that I am a bit, OK, woefully, lacking when it comes to my Italian wine tasting skills. Maybe it’s because I don’t think to make myself look for Italian wines specifically. Maybe it’s because they all have such long hard to pronounce words on the labels (and yes, German wines…

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Winey Tasting Notes: Sipping Some Tuscan Bargains

I have freely admitted before that I am a bit, OK, woefully, lacking when it comes to my Italian wine tasting skills. Maybe it’s because I don’t think to make myself look for Italian wines specifically. Maybe it’s because they all have such long hard to pronounce words on the labels (and yes, German wines…