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[FERMENTATIONS: The Daily Wine Blog] And though I'd worked in wine for nearly a decade at that point, rarely had I had the opportunity see, let alone taste, many of the top wines I'd read about all those years. So, when I would go out into the Winebid warehouse and be confronted with great and interesting wines sitting in boxes all over the floor and on shelves of this temperature controlled building, I never failed to be stopped in my tracks.

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[Vivisjournal.com] Vivi's Wine Journal: Wine News/Events: Wine Camp, a four day, three night hands-on immersion into the world of Long Island wines, will teach wine enthusiasts exactly what it takes to make some of the best wine in the country. Participants will have the opportunity to get their hands dirty working in the vineyards, blend their own wines in laboratories with professional winemakers, learn tasting and pairing techniques for all types of food, and find out just what makes Long Island uniquely suited to growing wine grapes.

[Declarationsandexclusions.typepad.com] A Fool in the Forest: Wine: Robert Mondavi is justly credited with pioneering the renaissance in California winemaking through the late 1960s and into the 1980s, but he should be ashamed over the frequently dreadful plonk that he foists on the world under the "Woodbridge" label. The "Sutter Home" bottling that ABC tasted is a similar situation: an entirely reputable winery that deserves much of the credit for bringing the Zinfandel grape into its own, Sutter Home can be tagged for multiple sins: it is the inventor of the dreaded "White Zinfandel" in all its insipidity and, as have many other Napa Valley wineries, it has expanded its market share by attaching its name to large quantities of mass-produced and uninteresting wines.

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