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THE CURRENT STATE OF THE BORDEAUX MARKET
“Wherefore art thou?” This is the plaintive cry as merchants struggle to sell the 2011 Bordeaux vintage which is one of the recent Bordeaux vintages NOT proclaimed “vintage of the century.” Let’s see. With 90% of the century to go we have already had 3 “vintages of the century”? Hmm. How does this […]
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Vinous Drive-By — It’s The Drive-By Sip and Spit!
As crazy as it sounds this actually happened. It was reported in a column by wine writer Dennis Schaefer in our local newspaper, The Santa Barbara News Press, On October 7, 2010. It seems that wine critic Robert Parker comes to our area once a year to taste local wines.
PAST LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Over the years, with the old Underground Wineletter, we received many interesting letters. Some complimentary, some less so, some critical, some constructive, etc. I think you get the picture. From this, I chose a selected cross section of letters to publish written replies. One of these appeared in Volume III, #1 in 1981. We decided […]
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