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Champagne

Henri Giraud and what oak does to Champagne

Take one batch of juice, split it in half, and ferment one half in a...
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Bordeaux

Gruaud Larose and how to read a bottle before opening it

A bottle arrives with a label that has clearly had a hard life. Stained brown...
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Bordeaux

Chateau Gazin, Pomerol, and the land it no longer owns

Open a classified Bordeaux from 1975 and one from 2005 on the same table and...
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Burgundy

Faiveley and why the southern Burgundy villages cost less

Draw a line down the Burgundy map and something strange happens to prices about forty...
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Bordeaux

Duhart-Milon and what ownership cannot transfer

A restaurant group that runs a very good kitchen in Central opens a second place...
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Champagne

What Dom Perignon is actually doing on the table

A bottle lands on the table at a banquet and does its work before anyone...
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Bordeaux

Chateau Dauzac and why southern Medoc smells different

Ask why a Margaux smells the way it does and you will usually be told...
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Producer Guide

Dassai 23 is not a higher grade than Dassai 45

Someone hands you two bottles of sake. One says 45 on the label, the other...
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Bordeaux

Chateau d'Armailhac and the Pauillac you can open early

Somebody buys a serious bottle of Bordeaux and is told to leave it for ten...
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Bordeaux

Chateau d'Angludet and the ranking that gets rebuilt

A classification is a promise about the future made with information from the past. The...
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New Zealand

Craggy Range farms the New Zealand nobody talks about

Marketing works, and occasionally it works so well that it becomes a cage. Thirty years...
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Bordeaux

Cos d'Estournel, young vines and where that fruit goes

"Young vines" is one of the few phrases in wine that people treat as an...
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