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7th Day of Christmas: New Year's Eve!

6th Day of Christmas: Sparkling Bordeaux; Yes, Sparkling Bordeaux

The Fifth Day of Christmas: How Green Was My Valley

The Christmas Eve Dinner Wine: Chateau Bahans Haut-Brion 2001

4th Day of Christmas: Sparkling Pinot Noir from Piedmont

3rd Day of Christmas: The Royal Family's Champagne

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The Second Day of Christmas: Crémant d'Alsace

12 Days of Christmas with Champagne and Sparkling Wine

A Late Last-Minute Gift for Collectors Who Think They Have Everything

Niner Wine Estates: Six Wines

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What to Drink with Sorrel Soup? Tasting Five Very Different White Wines

Root Beer Journal V: Sprecher, the Pride of the Badger State

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The Last of the Turkey & the "Appellation Cuvee" Series from Pali Wine Co.

Totally Absurd to Compare These Pinot Noirs, But What the Hell

Turkey Afterlife Continues

Fourth Anniversary of BiggerThanYourHead

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And People Always Get Me Confused with Ted Koppel

Another Thanksgiving Wine: For Dessert

Turkey Afterlife

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Sent All the Way from Europe

An Autumnal Dish and a Wine Experiment

Wines of the Week: Being Thanksgiving

And the Small Shall Lead Them

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Best Wines, Third Quarter, 2010

Box Wine Survives Dog Attack!!!

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The Mystery of Black Soul

A Great Cheese Toast Wine from Chile

And Where Is Umpqua Valley?

Clearing Off the Top Shelf

Wine of the Week, and a Great Beer and My First Gnocchi

Perfection!

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Two Appealing Italian Reds: One Cheap, One Not So much

Chile Gets Sauvignon Blanc & Chardonnay Right in Cool Regions

A Box from Bierzo

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The Chardonnays of Catena Zapata

Notes on Chile, Mainly Food

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Santiago, Chile, Sunday, First Day

South of the Border

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The Rockin' Wines of Jeff Bundschu

A Tasty Chianti Superiore from Banfi

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FK Gets Pissy

An Excellent Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir

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Yikes, Another Great Cheap Wine from Spain

Look for This Cheapo Spanish Red!

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Sunday Morning; or, What Becomes a Breakfast Pizza Most?

Unaccountably, We Liked the Butter Bean Risotto with Chard and Fried Okra

Blaufränkisch = Frankly Blue?

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The Wine and Pizza Gods Were Smiling Saturday Night

California Pinot Noir: A Not Entirely Happy Extravaganza, Part I

MacRostie Pinot Noir 2006: Aged to Perfection

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Shrimp Risotto & Gustave Lorentz Reserve Pinot Blanc 2009

Ridge Three Valleys 2008: Why Can't They All Be This Good?

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Root Beer Journal IV: Virgil's

World's Simplest Pasta Dish & an Enticing Tuscan Red Blend

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Old-School California Cabernets IX: Tudal Winery

Duboeuf Cru Beaujolais 2009: Best Ever?

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We Love This Stuff: Fever-Tree Bitter Lemon

Revolution in Pizzaland & a Raft of Red Wines

Awesomest Sammich!

Root Beer Journal III: Frostie, a Soft Drink Meltdown

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Chenin Blanc, Pinot Gris & Summery Dinners

What If You Think You Got the Wrong Glass of Wine?

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Omelet aux fines herbes & J.M. Broillot "Chatalienne" Rully 2007

Cold Tomato Pasta & Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais-Villages 2009

What's So Fine about Fine Wine Anyway?

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A Lovely Kabinett

Root Beer Journal II: With a Name Like "Natural," It Has To Be Good

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How about Some Independence on Independence Day?

100 Wines: A Chronicle, #38 and #39

So Tired of the Samo-Samo

Root Beer Journal I: Dad's Old Fashioned® Root Beer

Two Great Wines: Second Quarter of 2010

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Bigger Than Your Head Wins Again

Oveja Negra Is No Outcast

Benito & I Blind-Taste Six Pairs of Big Deal Red Wines

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A Great Rosé, and Don't Hate Me for Mentioning It

No Shrinking Violets These

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The Blasphemous Brew of Nameless Gods

BTYH Featured Today on Foodista.com

Perfection

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The Cork That Broke the Screw

This Pasta Dish Needed a White Wine of Class & Restraint

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They Make White Wine in Piedmont Too

Cooking the Momofuku Way

Two Great California Cabernets: A Newcomer & an Oldtimer

Vote for BiggerThanYourHead - Nominated for a Wine Blog Award 2010

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How Many Wines Does Jess Jackson Need?

Wine of the Week & Pizza Failure

The First Rosé of May

Lord of the Flies: Joseph Drouhin Beaune Clos des Mouches

100 Wines: A Chronicle, #37

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Dolcetto & Nebbiolo from Marchesi di Gresy

Sonoma: It Ain't Just a County Anymore

Boom Chakalaka

100 Wines: A Chronicle, #34, 35, 36

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Oxtail Stew and Pasta Sauce

Does Dry Creek Vineyard Need Four Sauvignon Blancs?

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Old-School California Cabernets VIII: Joseph Phelps Insignia

Should I Have Laughed or Cried?

The Meal That Finished Me Off

Nine White Wines (and a bonus!)

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Pizza Meets Dog

Heller Estate: Chenin Blanc, Pinot Noir, Petit Verdot

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Barbera Meeting 2010: Cutting to the Chase, Part II

Friday Evening Cocktail (& Old-School California Cabernet VII: Robert Mondavi)

Old-School California Cabernets VI: Jordan Vineyards & Winery

Makes You Feel Like a Billion Bucks

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Rochioli: Yes, No, Maybe

Barbera 2010: Cutting to the Chase, Part I

Two Great Wines: First Quarter of 2010

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Barbaresco and Barolo: An Afternoon of Nebbiolo, 3/11/10

Taking a Chance on Clos LaChance ...

100 Wines: A Chronicle, #32 &33; An Afternoon in John Grisanti's Wine Cellar, June 9, 1985

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Prolegomena to Any Future Barbera Meetings

A Versatile Riesling from New Zealand

An Almost Perfect Lunch in Canelli

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The Barbera That Blew Them All Away

Barbera 2010: We Do Not Despair in Monferrato

Barbera Meeting 2010: Day Three

Barbera 2010: We Bite the Hand That Feeds Us

Barbera Meeting 2010: Day 2, But Looking Back at Yesterday

Barbera 2010: Day 1, After Lunch

Barbera Meeting 2010: Day 1, Morning

In Piedmont Next Week

Yay, the Second Silent Auction Wine Turned Out Great!

Thawed = Unfrozen

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Old-School California Cabernets V: Renaissance Vineyard & Winery

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100 Wines: A Chronicle, #31

Whew! The Cakebread Merlot '02 Turned Out Great

Two New Dishes & Two Wines

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Perils of the Silent Auction

Two Rosé Sparkling Wines

232 Out of 1001 Is Not Great

Old School California Cabernets IV: Clos du Val & Clos du Bois

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Kick-Ass Super Bowl Wines

Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout

One Sauce, Three Meals & Wines from V. Sattui

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Schramberg's Top of the Line

This Just In (& a Big "THNX!")

Scratching the Surface at Vincent Girardin

100 Wines: A Chronicle, #30

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Old School California Cabernets III: Sequoia Grove

I Am a Lucky Guy ...

25 Great Wine Bargains of 2009

50 Great Wines of 2009

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The 12th Day of Christmas, aka Twelfth Night

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The 11th Day of Christmas: Champagne Haton & Fils

10th Day of Christmas: A Discovery from the Loire

The Ninth Day of Christmas: Sparklers from Italy, Spain, Argentina

The Eighth Day of Christmas: New Year's Day