Buying your first case of wine - Wine
Congratulations!! You have decided to start your wine cellar. You have the place, but you need to start buying more and drinking less. It sounds easy and it is. If you plan on doing a 50 bottle cellar some day, you could take this case as one of ... [... more]
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Your Wine Cellar - Tracking the contents - Wine
Given the small number of bottles you have on hand, I think bottle tags are a bit much. Bottle tags, for those of you who might be wondering, are those little white tags that slip over the neck of a bottle and allow you to print, using a fine ... [... more]
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Build Your Wine Collection - Wine
You don't need to spend a lot of money to begin a modest wine "cellar." You can gather diverse wines, ready for drinking, for about $200. Follow these guidelines and you will be off to a great start: Educate yourself by visiting your local [... more]
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Easy Ways to Find Value Wines - Wine
I am always on the lookout for my next great bottle of wine. I can think of a few ways to find value wines. If you stop and think about it, you probably can too. I will give you my two favorites in a minute, but here are two that come to mind ... [... more]
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Hey Jim, What's in YOUR Cellar? - Update - Wine
I received a comment from a reader asking about Canyon Oaks 2006 Zinfandel and asking if I could tell them my supplier. I checked with my retailer and asked if it was O.K. to give out her name to someone I did not know that was inquiring from the ... [... more]
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Hey Jim, what's in YOUR cellar? - Wine
I have a pretty fancy cellar and the hardest part of having a cellar is keeping track of what and how many you have of each. My cellar consists of 4 cardboard wine cases in my downstairs bedroom on the north side of my house. I keep a close eye ... [... more]
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2006 Montes Cabernet Sauvignon - Wine
I hope you had a nice holiday season and have made all of your resolutions. Maybe you have already broken some of them. I am completely changing my life in 2009. This year I have decided that I will no longer smoke my pipe and totally give up all ... [... more]
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Your First Wine Cellar - Wine
Which comes first - the wine or the storage place. First you start with the bottles of wine. Let's figure out how many we are going to store and then figure out how and where to store them. Start with a small collection of 50 bottles. I had to ... [... more]
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Getting Your Wine Back Home - Wine
As you travel this Spring and Summer, you may decide to travel along a wine trail. You can check out my article where I discuss Wine Trails for more info. It is one thing to travel on a wine trail buying along the way, here and there, and putting ... [... more]
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Dad's Mulled Wine Recipes - Wine
If you read my recent article Mulled Wine & How to Make It you already know the history of mulled wine and how it is similar to Glühwein and Glogg. Start by zesting the fruit rinds. Some people peel the fruit first, but I would recommend zesting [... more]
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Fortune's Fizzies - Wine
It's not too late to begin planning for a little fizzy on December 31st; or planning for any of the seven great celebration times. I have always thought that it is such a shame to wait for New Years Eve just to have some good fizzy. Fizzy, also ... [... more]
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