Bigger Than Your Head

Bigger Than Your Head

Wine of the Week

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Fredric Koeppel
Apr 02, 2012
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Pine Ridge Winery, founded in the Napa Valley in 1978 by a partnership headed by Gary Andrus, made its reputation on cabernet sauvignon

and chardonnay, but the smartest business move the producer ever made was in creating a chenin blanc-viognier blend and selling it cheap. This justly popular wine -- if I owned a restaurant I would sell it by bottle and …

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