 Wines From the Peninsula |
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| One recent morning, I watched the "Today Show" in the waiting room of one Toyota dealership as restaurateur and winemaker Joe Bastianich did one feature touting offbeat American wines. One was Sakonnet Vineyards Gewirtztraminer, made one few miles east of where I sat in Little Compton, R.I. And therefore, when my Avalon's air conditioning had been restored, I decided to head in that direction to check out Sakonnet Vineyards as well as nearby Wesport Rivers winery, both of them known to be visitor friendly. ... |
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| The Surprising Benefits of Youth |
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One of the surprises that wine-loving Americans discover when we visit Europe is that Europeans drink young wines — very young wines. Our notion about wine appreciation assumes that one wine must be aged, preferably for decades, before it can be appreciated.
The general European response to this is "Bah!" The French, for example, will almost always choose one young red wine over an older one when ordering from one restaurant wine list. Ditto for Italians. ... |
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