Mary Ross
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Good wine: Dry Rosé, sweet whites friends with flame-cooked summer fareJul 30, 2014 6:00 am - Leave the white tablecloth and five-star wines safe in storage until autumn winds blow our dining indoors. Summer is time for finger-lickin' grilling and barbecues with ...
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Good wine: Get comfortable with buying wine onlineJul 09, 2014 6:00 am - Wine is just a click away, as wineries, auction houses and e-tailers grab for America's enthusiasm for shopping online. For value, suburban Chicago's retail prices are h...
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Good wine: Mary reviews the top of the spring tastingsJun 04, 2014 5:30 am - This has been updated to include correct price of Ross' choice. In the springtime, new wine begins its trek from vat and barrel, all the way to your wineglass, stadium m...
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Good wine: Journey to expand your palate begins with a single sipMay 07, 2014 6:00 am - After you've wrapped your palate around America's favorite grapes, it's time to expand your mouth and mind to new wine flavors. You have about 6,000 grape varieties to c...
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Good wine: Vinho Verde's bubbly personality easy to warm up toApr 09, 2014 6:00 am - Portugal's Vinho Verde region is in the enviable position of selling nearly every bottle of wine she can produce. There's good reason for Vinho Verde's popularity. The ...
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Good wine: Exploring white BurgundyMar 26, 2014 5:45 am - Among a certain set of wine lovers, Burgundy is Burgundy for Burgundy's sake, a be-all and end-all unto itself. At any given tasting of Burgundy's whites, you can overh...
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Good Wine: Don't pour leftover wine down the drain, pour it into the potFeb 03, 2014 8:00 am - The halls are un-decked, the festive apparel is waiting at the cleaners and, with other holiday leftovers polished off, you may be thinking, “What am I going to do with ...
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Good wine: Bubblies and toasts for for NYE drinking, clinkingDec 29, 2013 5:00 am - “Here's to Champagne, the Drink Divine that helps us forget all our troubles. It's made from a dollar's worth of wine and three dollars worth of bubbles!” When Champagn...
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Good wine: How to shop where you shop for wineDec 11, 2013 4:30 am - American wine lovers may be lifting glasses to more than the New Year come Dec. 31. If statistics hold true, 2013 will mark the 20th consecutive growth year in America's...
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Good wine: Story of a Cabernet, Pinot Noir pioneerNov 19, 2013 5:00 am - In the 1970s, American John Goelet dispatched French winegrower Bernard Portet to scour the globe for the last, great undiscovered wine region. Portet landed on a tiny r...