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The Teachings of The Pontificator
WineTrack's Pontificator...He may not always be right but he is never wrong.
"Screw the Corks"
"Grand Crew Screwed"
Sides have been drawn: Traditionalist vs Realists. Cork Pullers vs Cap Screwers-Old School vs New School. Mobs of Cap Screwers are marching with placards screaming, “Save The Wines!! Save The Wines!!” Cork Pullers are right beside them singing "Tradition! Tradition!” How did this all happen? ... Grand Cru “Screwed”Oh Burgundy! Where have thou gone? Some have gone to screw caps. Maison Jean-Claude Boisset is the first French wine company to bottle half its Grand Cru, Chambertin, with a metal screw cap...
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Debunking Breathing
Debunking Legs
What causes these legs? Drinkability? No. Sugar? No. Wine appreciation is also visual. Intensity of color, and the relative density and clarity of a wine may provide clues to the age...
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How many times have you heard, “Look at the legs of this wine?” or “How long should I let this wine breathe?”The worry over a wine losing its breath was a big concern with many of my students when I taught “wine appreciation
Late Harvest Wine
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Ice Wine
Icewine or Ice Wine is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, so the result is a concentrated, often very sweet wine...
Of the great late harvest wine regions around the world, New York is producing some of the greatest values today.
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Olive Oil
Being the leader in strange interviews, as you would know in reading the inaugural edition of WineTracks, once again we sent one of our interviewers to a micro brewery to learn how they made beer.
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