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Grapevine

New Year’s List of Twelve Wine-Related Goals

January 21, 2025 Nick Antonaccio

Many of us are deep into attempting to accomplish – or refining – the 2025 resolutions we set for ourselves a few weeks ago. Three weeks into the new year, my resolutions are already becoming difficult to attain/sustain. Are you

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Should You Consider Purchasing a Wine Storage Unit?

January 7, 2025 Nick Antonaccio

In my previous column we explored the numerous elements of consuming wine at its peak – the moment when it reaches the top of the bell curve and expresses its best characteristics. The column focused on the following categories. The

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Enjoying Older Wines: Off the Shelf or From Your Cellar?

December 24, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

“Aged wine” is a rather open-ended term lacking any specificity to a particular bottling. Your concept of aging may be a matter of a few days – or hours. Mine may be several decades. While one consumer may not have

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Navigating the Decisions in the Pairing of Cheese and Wine

December 10, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

Matching wine with a particular food dish or menu is one of life’s simple pleasures. But we don’t enjoy wines solely with meals. Often, we are entertaining friends or enjoying wine as a precursor to a meal. What to match

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Wine With A Restaurant Meal: Theirs or Yours?

November 26, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

Restaurant wine lists, crafted by today’s wine-focused chefs and highly educated sommeliers, can be the quintessence of the overall experience at a restaurant. Many restaurants painstakingly pair food and wine offerings and invest significantly in well-stocked wine cellars. However, when

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Enjoying the Bounty of France’s Loire Valley

November 12, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

The Loire Valley is mesmerizing. It enjoys a storied past of the high times of the French nobility. For centuries, the region provided the epitome of the finest of French life: fine cuisine, exquisite castles and chateaux and elegant wines.

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Leaf Peeping and Wine Sipping in the Hudson Valley

October 22, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

Yes, it’s October, and this is the season our thoughts gravitate to Northeastern ski slopes and holiday travel to the homes of family and friends. I encourage you to take advantage of these remaining days of mild temperatures and still-changing

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Your Next Wine Destination: Traveling West or East?

October 15, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

“A show of hands. How many of you have visited wine-producing countries?” This is how I typically begin one of my wine and food pairing events. A large percentage invariably raise their hands with smiles on their faces and a

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Delving Into the Vicarious World of Auction Wine Investing

October 1, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

In past columns, we’ve explored the rarified air of the high-end wine auctions. Typically, the domain of the 1 percenters, it might seem that these auctions are the playgrounds and/or the battlefields of the rich. Auction houses carefully curate their

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A Brief History of the Burgundy Wine Region

September 17, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

The wines of France’s Burgundy region are famous for their unique aroma and flavor profiles – and their relative scarcity compared to worldwide demand. This imbalance has driven prices of the most famous wines into the collectors-only stratosphere. To a

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