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Go Magnum or Go Home

EATER

And because producers tend to reserve the magnum treatment for the wines they consider worth celebrating, it’s usually a safe bet that the big bottles contain something special. Here are half a dozen big bottles of bubbles, from the most elegant houses to the chillest natural makers. In fact, a magnum is 1.5

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A Brief Guide to Champagne

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Start with a bottle from one of these Champagne houses. Start with a smart bottle from one of the great Champagne houses. But the wines produced by these houses have been snubbed over the last decade by a certain kind of drinker, typically younger, relatively new to wine, and predisposed to drinking natural wines first and foremost.

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Stone Castle - A Story Of Love And Determination

The Wine Knitter

It was also his dream to reconstruct the family kulla (“stone house” in Albanian) that was destroyed in the war. Kullas were created by the countrymen and date back hundreds of years. This is a story of an Albanian family who has striven and succeeded in making a difference in war-torn Kosovo.

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An Eater’s Guide to Visiting (and Drinking) Champagne 

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Lots of the houses had little trains you could take [through the cellars] that were reminiscent of something you would have seen at Disney World,” remembers Christian Holthausen, a French-American strategic consultant in the wine & spirits industry, of his early career in Champagne in the 1990s.

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Halloween Or Hallowine!

The Wine Knitter

There are pumpkins to carve, costumes to make, parties to plan, and of course, let’s not forget scary haunted houses, spooky trails, and ghost tours! There are pumpkins to carve, costumes to make, parties to plan, and of course, let’s not forget scary haunted houses, spooky trails, and ghost tours! Alcohol: 13.5%

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Eater’s Guide to Idaho’s Snake River Valley

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Rows at Scoria Vineyard in Caldwell | Sydney Nederend. The capital, Boise, has led the boom (with a surge in housing prices to match), as remote workers migrated east from the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest in search of more space, cheaper rent, and a quieter lifestyle. And then there’s wine. Really great wine. wine scene.

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31 NYC Wine Bars You Should Check Out

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Take a step back from the hustle and bustle of NYC life and fall into one of the many comforting couches at the Aldo Sohm Wine Bar in the city’s Midtown West neighborhood, just south of Central Park. Make a Reservation. Make a Reservation. You can’t go one block without stumbling upon one or two NYC wine bars. The Four Horsemen.

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