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- Life Worth Living Starts With Wine Worth Drinking
- Urine Trouble
- New Year's Eve, A Pahlmeyer Tasting & Downton Abbey
- The Best Of WineSnark 2014
- A Magical Christmas Moment
- Will New Jersey Wineries Finally Get Respect?
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- Who's On Thirst?
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- Le Chanceux's Tale of Inspiration, Courage & a Little Luck
- The Topsy-Turvy Vineyards Of Babcock Winery
- The (Rutherford) Dust Settles After The Napa Earthquake
- Napa Earthquake Delivers Bruising Punch
- The Monthly Wine Writing Challenge; My Best Friend Wine
- The Wine Review Review #1
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Introduction
Chapter One; The Fascinating Fruit
Chapter Two; Making Sense Of Your Senses
Chapter Three; Tasting Techniques
- Intro To The Obligatory Chapter On Wine Tasting Techniques.
- Quality Hangs In The Balance.
- Visual Wine Inspection, Bubble Trouble & Cosmic Crystals. See More
- Visual Wine Inspection; Looking For Clarity, Color & Intensity.
- Wine Evaluation; The Nose Knows No's Not An Option.
- A Lesson In How To Smell Better.
- The Wine Aroma Wheel Goes Round & Round.
- Swirl It, Shake It, or Just Let It Be.
- It's A Matter Of Degrees.
- Wine Tasting Techniques; How To Taste Better.
- Wine Tasting Techniques; Weight A Minute.
Chapter Four; So You Want To Be A Wine Critic
Chapter Five; Opiners & Writers & Bores, Oh My!
Chapter Six; Euphemisms, Similes & Metaphors
Chapter Seven; Pun Fun & Other Label Misadventures
Chapter Eight; The Umami Tsunami
Chapter Nine; Food And Wine Pairing
Chapter Ten; Are We Almost There Yet?
Chapter Eleven; Terroir. It’s Down To Earth
Chapter Twelve; Fermentation Edification
Chapter Thirteen; The Mighty Oak
Chapter Fourteen; The Fruit Of The Vine
Coming Hell or High Water
Chapter Fifteen; Wine Rules, AKA Acronymphomania
Chapter Sixteen; France
- Change Comes Slowly To Bordeaux.
- A Look At French Wine Laws
- Bordeaux Has Class See More
- Ch Ch Ch Changes to the 1855 Bordeaux Wine Classification
- Bordeaux Grape Varieties; Comfort Food For The Oenophile
- A Stroll Through History On The Roman Road To St.-Emilion
- Why Is It So Hard To Find Your Favorite Burgundy & The French Wine Boycott That Spurred Sales
- What's In a Burgundy?
- All Beaujolais Is Burgundy But Not All Burgundy Is Beaujolais
- Loire Valley Wines Come Clean
- Muscadet. Do I Taste Seashells or is it Just a Fluke?
- The Wines of Anjou-Saumur Take Me Back to a Classier Time
Chapter Seventeen; Italy
Chapter Twenty Two; Of Bubbles, Raisins & Rot
The Last Drop
- The Wise-Ass Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
- The Jersey Slide
- Walk It Off
- Smooth as Silk
- WineSnark Gets Physical. New Book Features WineSnark Memoir
- WineSnark Memoir Included In Book Anthology
- Into the Stormtroopers. Part Two
- Into the Stormtroopers. Part One
- 'Twas the Night Before the Wine of the Year Was Announced
- Life On The Road - Without Any Brakes
- Urine Trouble
- Who's On Thirst?
(c) 2014 Wine Snark
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