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Columns to Savor
Michael De Loach
Reading Wine Labels, The Real Meaning of "Sideways", Picnic Essentials for Harvest
The Truth about Sulfites and Headaches,
The Mystery of the Disappearing Sommelier,
and Wine Cocktails
Proliferation of Brands, Picking for a Party, Pink Prejudice, and Follow your Bliss
The Home Wine Tasting Myth, and Why Most Wine Rating Systems are Basically Worthless
Wine Tasting Season Survival, Standards, Darlings and Trendy Wines, and A Quick Planning Guide to Visiting the Wine Country
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Wine Expert
Michael De Loach
Sweet Relief:
Why “Wine Classes” Are Unnecessary, and Perhaps Even Harmful
Yep. You heard it here first. No more homework. Not even class work. Of course, any class that requires you to sip wines for a few hours is hardly an ordeal. Nonetheless, there’s enough trepidation in the world without people being afraid to buy a bottle or two of vino without first being “educated.” Fear no longer.
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Another Wine Myth
Bites The Dust:
Lafite-Rothschild Is NOT an Important Wine
Opus One. Latour. Dom Perignon. Stag’s Leap. These even sound kinda important when you list them. But the truth is, in the big wine scheme of things, they are not. Add up the current supply of the world’s most prized bottles, the ones that get the 100-point ratings and that cork dorks go limp in the knees over, and you get way less than 1% of the wines available either by dollar amount or by volume.
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The Basic Types of Wine Shoppers:
Which One Are You?
Archetypes abound everywhere, and indeed the wine world is no exception. There are many varieties of wine drinkers, species of snobs and subsets of admirers, collectors, expounders and travelers. But by far my favorite group to study (carefully, from a great distance, from the comfort and protection of a large display of bag-in-box products) are wine shoppers. Wondering which kind you are?
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