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Brotherhood Winery ~ The Varietal Flight
Marguerite Barrett Contributing Writer There were a couple surprises awaiting me during my tasting. I opted for the Varietal Tasting, no surprise to regular readers of Vino Verve, I’m sure, as I’ve...
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The Wines of Warwick Valley Winery and Distillery ~ Riesling
Marguerite Barrett Contributing Writer A few days after finishing Warwick Valley’s Chardonnay, I opened the Riesling. The color is medium-yellow, and like the Chardonnay a darker, richer color than I...
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Cellardoor Winery ~ The Wines
Marguerite Barrett Contributing Writer Logo from Cellardoor Winery's website I took my time over the tasting menu, and it was hard to settle on just six. Some of the choices I passed up this trip...
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Better Know An AVA – Lake Michigan Shore
Gretchen Neuman VinoVerve Editor Continuing my Michigan winery planning I move on to Lake Michigan Shore. Why? Well it contains the Fennville AVA and is the appellation listed on the bottles for the...
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Regional American Wines Celebrated on Today
One of the advantages of “Back to School” time is that, I, your dear editor, regains access to my television (if not my sanity). This means that I get to watch my favorite part of the Today Show, the...
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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
With Thanksgiving over, the inevitable slide into the Christmas holidays has begun. Usually in the weeks before Thanksgiving, this depresses me. However, this year I got the opportunity to taste a wine...
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Southern Oregon AVA
While over time the focus has been on smaller and smaller wine regions, in 2004 the TTB went completely the other way, creating a super-AVA in the form of the Southern Oregon AVA. This region consists...
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Umpqua Valley AVA
One man’s basin is another man’s valley. The Umpqua is formed by three mountain ranges: The Cascades, the Coastal Range and he Klamath, but often the area is often known as the 100 valleys of the...
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Walla Walla AVA
A town so nice, they named it twice! Well, not so much the town in this scenario as the entire appellation. This seems only fair as the this AVA is located in two separate states – Oregon and...
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Willamette Valley AVA
It’s Willamette Dammit! And rightfully so, as this appellation is the big daddy of Oregon winemaking. (also, it is pronounced Ora-gun not Or-e-gone. These folks are making you delicious wine. Be...
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Cherry Creek Winery @ The Old Schoolhouse – Brooklyn, MI
After seven years in New England, I relocated to southeast Michigan in December 2014. Despite having been born and raised in Detroit (proud graduate of Cass Tech High School!), Michigan hasn’t been...
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Meadowbrook (Michigan) Wine and Food Festival
Saturday, August 22 Picture perfect weather and a gorgeous location among the lawns and gardens of the Meadowbrook Music Festival north of Detroit, the 2015 Meadowbrook Wine and Food Festival didn’t...
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