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Recent Food & Wine Matches at Home and Out

Recent Food & Wine Matches at Home and Out

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Fredric Koeppel
Mar 04, 2011
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I needed to taste the Nickel and Nickel Truchard Vineyard Chardonnay 2008, Carneros, and it happened that I was about to serve dinner, the

cumin-spiced shrimp and chorizo gumbo, and while it didn't occur to me beforehand that the wine and the gumbo would make a great (or even appropriate) match, together they actually formed one of those slightly edgy BI…

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