Mary Ross
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Good wine: Getting to know riesling — a delicious undertakingJul 31, 2012 1:00 pm - A lot of fun with wine involves mix-and-matching wine with food. Last night, for instance, I made a great match of Indonesian-style beef curry with a spicy, red — a Cab...
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Good wine: Father of Washington State wine honored with premium labelJul 11, 2012 1:00 am - Every once in a while, someone comes along to change the world. That happens in the wine world as well. In the fourth century A.D., Roman poet Ausonius grew wine grapes ...
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Rosé the perfect partner for smoked foodsJun 26, 2012 12:00 pm - Logic suggests matching smoky foods with the smoky flavors of oak-influenced wine. But during summer's heat, pairing wine with smoked dishes is a difficult proposition. ...
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Good wine: Families planting roots in California vineyardsMay 30, 2012 3:37 pm - Families have farmed Old World lands for millennia. Children learned the quirks of their orchards, pastures, vineyards and groves; their knowledge tricking down through ...
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Whatever you're grilling, there's a wine to matchMay 28, 2012 6:00 am - Fire, food and wine have been part of our Western culinary consciousness practically since Western civilization was born. Roman armies began planting vines throughout Eu...
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Exploring the wines of Grandes Pagos de EspanaMay 09, 2012 8:00 am - The international wine lexicon is full of terms with the general meaning of "special growing site." In Germany, it's "gewachs;" in Spain it's "pago." France has several...
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Going green in the world of winesApr 11, 2012 12:00 pm - Winemakers today offer vintages in many shades of “green” that cover the process from the vine to the barrel to the bottle. How earth-friendly do you want your wine to b...
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We could be on verge of Greek wine renaissanceMar 27, 2012 11:15 am - Wine is an expression of four variables: grape, soil, climate and the human culture that transforms Nature into a living product. A wine region's success depends on the ...
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Argentina's Torrontes a grape worth getting to knowMar 07, 2012 12:00 pm - I had planned a column about Torrontes that undiscovered grape and its delicate, dry-ish wines trickling into suburbs from Argentina just in time to pair with delicate S...
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Is 2009 vintage Bordeaux's wine of the century?Feb 22, 2012 5:00 am - The 2009 Bordeaux harvest isn't being heralded as “the vintage of the century” ... yet. Canny French marketers — the folks who that convinced Americans to eat snails an...