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Intensify Your Ability to Smell Wine: Retro-Nasal Style

Intensify Your Ability to Smell Wine: Retro-Nasal Style

When you deepen your understanding of the nose, you rapidly deepen your ability to smell wine’s beautiful nuances. Here’s how…

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The Flavor Tripping Miracle Berry: It’s The New Buzz

The Flavor Tripping Miracle Berry: It’s The New Buzz

Discover a wild and adventurous way to take your taste buds on the ride of their life…

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The Real Reason Absinthe Was Banned

The Real Reason Absinthe Was Banned

Absinthe has been blamed for everything from wild hallucinations to dancing the polka, stark naked, on the rue Saint-Martin while under its influence.

Which has many wondering why something so fun could possibly have been banned.

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Elevating Your Champagne Experience

Elevating Your Champagne Experience

How do you get champagne costing 30 euros to taste like prestige cuvĂ©e that costs 150 euros? Fine Champagne Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Pekka Nuikki tells us how.

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Wines for any Budget: A Look at Hermitage

Wines for any Budget: A Look at Hermitage

Hermitage reds have been referred to by writers for centuries as possessing the allure of sultry pheromones. Hands down, if you try one, it just may be the sexiest wine experience of your life!

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Prohibition’s Dirty Secret

Prohibition’s Dirty Secret

Millions of gallons of industrial alcohol were stolen during Prohibition and the U.S. Federal Government desperately tried to control this illegal bootlegging.

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How to Develop Your Palate. It’s More Fun Than You Think!

How to Develop Your Palate. It’s More Fun Than You Think!

Taste is largely a learned experience where even a little experimentation can alter your perceptions.

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The Secret Behind German Winemaking

The Secret Behind German Winemaking

My sommelier education has taught me the importance of soil to viticulture, and to this point most of my understanding has come from books. So it was a treat to taste wines from one vineyard to the next experiencing the vivid influence that soil and microclimate play in German wine making.

Now onto my confession…

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