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01/29/2013 7:28 PM
Chilly winter evenings call for satisfying meals, preferably not hard to make, that fill you up and taste particularly good. It’s the dinner equivalent of relaxing before a roaring wood fire. But you don’t want to slave away in the kitchen, nor do you want to sacrifice hearty flavors for convenience.Put together, it is [...]
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01/16/2013 9:18 PM
Restaurant wine lists can be intimidating. There you are at a nice restaurant for a fine occasion, perhaps while on a wine tour in France. You have some idea which dinners you wish to order. The wine steward delivers the restaurant wine list, pauses briefly to see if you have any questions, then disappears, to [...]
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French Wine Explorers on
01/03/2013 3:20 PM
A recent note about the Commanderie de Bordeaux reminded me of several wine societies in France, which I had the pleasure of joining with other wine lovers. As I recall, the occasions were very pleasant and often rather informal. With the Commanderie de Bordeaux ceremony itself, held at Saint André de Cubzac in the Gironde, [...]
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