The Best Inexpensive Bottles for your Larg-er Holiday Feasts
A decadent feast on a budget is the perfect way to celebrate the holiday season.
By CLARA DALZELL
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Ms. Dalzell runs a wine consulting and marketing business for retailers and importers in the US from her home in Copenhagen. She has a DipWSET, has dreams of being a Master of Wine and teaches private and corporate wine classes both online and offsite. When not running a business or writing for The New York Sun, she enjoys cooking elaborate meals, reading fiction, fantasy, and historical non-fiction, playing card and board games, entertaining her friends, and traveling the world. Her greatest loves are her daughter the Baby Wine Witch and husband Billy, followed closely by Champagne.
A decadent feast on a budget is the perfect way to celebrate the holiday season.
By CLARA DALZELL
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Considering Italy’s heavy influence on our wine-buying habits, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding regarding two of its most famous grapes.
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Here are the six things I’d bring to dinner, if I could. They aren’t impossible to get, overly priced, or super obscure, but tried and true wines of tradition to celebrate this food- and family-focused holiday.
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After having some of the grape’s confusing distinctions explained to her, a client was grateful for the added context and jumped at the chance to explore some new avenues of wine.
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An emerging group of vignerons is breaking the 400-year-old Port industry and creating something new. They’ve borrowed concepts from around the world to craft some of Portugal’s most thrilling and delicious wines.
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The sugar and alcohol now make Port uncouth, but they were exactly what made it so famous in the first place.
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Contrary to popular belief, the color of a rosé says absolutely nothing about its level of residual sugar, or sweetness.
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It is the birthplace of a movement that has made an outsize impact on the current global culture of wine.
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The wine world needs to have an honest, thoughtful conversation about farming choices and craft that into a message that consumers can understand.
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This ancient wine region in the middle of western Hungary is rife with world class terroir and a small but growing cadre of talented winemakers.
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After our first test, I really have only two words for you: I’m sorry. I can’t think of two wines that were worse illustrations for the point I was trying to make.
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The second most planted white wine grape globally is wildly popular among many, and responsible for arguably the greatest wines in the world.
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