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Showing posts with label Grape Spotlight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grape Spotlight. Show all posts
Monday, December 1, 2025

Grape Spotlight: Romania DOC Lechinţa, Valea Ascunsă Fetească Neagră

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Courtesy of  Premium Wines of Romania   Lechinţa DOC is a small appellation in Transylvania comprised of several villages located between ...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Grape Spotlight: Maryland Regent from Burnt Hill Farm

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The Regent Diamond is a 140.64-carat (28.128 g) diamond, classified as D color with a slight bluish tinge, cut into a cushion brilliant shap...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

An Evening at the Embassy of the Republic of North Macedonia

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Last week we attended an event through Embassy Experiences held at the Embassy of the Republic of North Macedonia.  We were drawn to the ev...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Grape Spotlight: Shelburne Vineyard Lake Champlain Marquette

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The Marquette grape was developed at the University of Minnesota as a high quality, cold hardy, and disease resistant wine grape and through...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Grape Spotlight & Effervescence Unleashed: Slavonija Sparkling Frankovka (Blaufränkisch) from Enosophia

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The Slavonija wine region occupies the eastern inland third of Croatia, forming the largest wine-producing region in the country both in ar...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Grape Spotlight: Maryland Teroldego

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Teroldego is an ancient grape and it most likely originated in the Piana Rotaliana -- a large alluvial plain located in northern Trentino,...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Grape Spotlight: Mljet Mrkuša & Hazdovac Meleda 2022

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Mljet is the southernmost island in Croatia, located between Dubrovnik and the island of Korčula,  It's nickname, the “Green Island”, i...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Grape Spotlight: Vernaccia di San Gimignano with Fattoria Poggio Alloro

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Bonagiunta da Lucca; e quella faccia | Bonagiunta from Lucca; and that face di là da lui più che l'altre trapunta | beyond him more embo...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Grape Spotlight: The Green Valley of the Russian River Valley Pinot Noir

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Sonoma County includes multiple AVAs which in turn, include even more sub-AVAs. One of the coolest and foggiest of these is the Green Valley...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Grape Spotlight: McLaren Vale & Barossa Valley Grenache at the Rediscover Australia Roadshow

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Grenache (also known as Garnacha in Spain) is one of the world’s most widely planted and celebrated red wine grape varieties. Known for its...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Gambero Rosso's Vini D’Italia 2025 Roadshow

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On April 30th, Gambero Rosso , Italy's premier food and wine media group, returned to Washington DC celebrating the Vini D’Italia 2025 ...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Grape Spotlight: Castilla y León D.O. Bierzo Mencia

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Mencia is to D.O. Bierzo what the Prieto Picudo and Albarin grapes are to D.O. León. A subregion within Castilla y León primarily dedicate...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Effervescence Unleashed: What is Champagne?

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Champagne is a sparkling wine that is exclusively produced in the Appellation d’Origine Controlee area of Champagne, France and made using t...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Grape Spotlight: Abruzzo's Tullum DOCG Pecorino

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The  Tullum DOCG is one of Italy's smallest and newest DOCGs -- becoming that country's 75th DOCG in 2019.  The DOCG is confined to...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Grape Spotlight: Virginia Gamay Through the EWE25

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Gamay (Gamay Noir à Jus Blanc) is most famous for producing the fresh, red wines of Beaujolais. It is also grown in other parts of France (...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Grape Spotlight: Albarin Blanco from D.O. León & I.G.P. Castilla y León

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At a recent Castilla y León Roadshow event, I saw Albarin Blanco on the tasting sheet for  Leyenda Del Páramo  and thought "Nice, Alb...