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Streaming ‘Widow Clicquot’ and Remembering the Champagne Region

September 3, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

Last weekend my wife and I streamed a movie recommended by our friends, the Gordons. “Widow Clicquot” is the story, told in a rather intimate style, of one of the women pioneers in the Champagne region of France. The presentation

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Exploring the Various Aspects of Natural Farming

August 20, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

We’re well into summer and my thoughts are fully engaged on the outdoors and gardening. This is my favorite time of year, when terms such as farm-to-table and hyperlocal have a special meaning for me. This requires a focused caring

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Your Next Wine Destination: Traveling West or East?

August 6, 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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Tales of Fulfilling One’s Wine Dreams

July 23, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

My approach and experiences with the expansive and ever-expanding world of wine have changed over the years. Early on, I drank to fit my budget. My palate was inexperienced and my wallet was thin. The wines I consumed were rather

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Finding Little-Known Wine Gems in California Wine Country

July 9, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

When I was a young man, I thought like a young man, acted like a young man – and drank like a young man (with apologies to the Bible verse from Corinthians 13:11). Now that I have matured, I think,

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Living in the Golden Age of Wine Selections

June 25, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

Today’s wine market is unlike any in the history of the retail wine trade. Never has there been more wine available at such high-quality levels and at such reasonable quality and price thresholds. Think about it. When was the last

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Genetic Tools: First Our Ancestry, Now Mapping Our Wines and Our Palates

June 11, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

This week’s column originally appeared in 2018.          By Nick Antonaccio Now that science has broken the code to examine and explore our DNA – and the DNA of multiple, diverse organisms – there have been commercial products coming to market

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Analyzing Certain Negative Reactions to Wine

June 4, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

Are you one of those unfortunate wine lovers who have an adverse reaction to drinking certain wine? Do you peer at a glass of wine and wonder if the wine gods are going to strike you with a bevy of

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How Do You Express Your Knowledge of Wine?

May 14, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

Snobbish: “an offensive air of superiority in matters of knowledge or taste.” Modest: “humble, unassuming, unpretentious.” These terms have been applied to wine consumers for many centuries, and have become even more in vogue since the beginning of the present

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The Shape of Things to Come? Champagne Glasses?

April 30, 2024 Nick Antonaccio

In today’s society of instantaneous social media, opinions take on the specter of fact, facts bear the cloak of someone’s alternative facts and minutiae may grandstand as omnipotent provocation. This week, with my effort firmly focused on fair and balanced

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