*We have a new report from reader Bauer today about his travels to discover the “American grape” Norton in the South. This update is a long one, but contains a wealth of information about the who’s who of Norton. Many thanks to Bauer for continuing to provide us with such detailed descriptions of his finds. [...]
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It’s not often anyone describes a wine as tasting like grapes. In fact, I’ve heard and read that it’s considered poor form for a wine to taste like grapes. But since it’s made of grapes, it just doesn’t seem wrong to me for wine to actually taste like grapes on occasion, rather than the myriad [...]
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I’m trying to stick to my goal of learning something new about wine every week. I thought I’d test it out and put the post up here this week. This week’s bit of knowledge was inspired by our trip to Chrysalis Vineyards this weekend. Even before going, I looked at their website and saw much [...]
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