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Two Premier Crus from Chassagne-Montrachet
What a great way to spend an hour or so, but at my favorite wine shop, the Fine Wine Source in Livonia, Michigan and doing a Burgundian wine tasting. Michael Corso of Michael Corso Selections was taking us in small … Continue reading
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Eleven Years of The Wine Raconteur
I know it is hard for me to believe that I have been doing this for so long, I just looked it up, and the average is two to three years. I guess if you are having fun and don’t … Continue reading
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Match Day
I guess I am rather naive about certain aspects about the medical field. I mean all my life, I have had a doctor, first a pediatrician, then a General Practitioner or nowadays an Internist and the odd specialist along the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosca, Charmat Method, Italy, Moscato Bianco, Spumante
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Happy Easter 2023
My Bride and I would like to wish you a Happy Easter. More wine and stories coming from your humble raconteur.
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New Year’s Eve Ramblings
When I was young New Year’s Eve was a night to go out with your date to a night club, have dinner, wine and Champagne and dance the night away. We had people that personified cool for that night on … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas 2022
My Bride and I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas May the Season bring you plenty of health, happiness, luck and joy
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Whiskey and Whisky
“When it rains, it pours” is a very common slogan heard in Michigan, as it was an advertising slogan for a salt company in Detroit. Under the city and beyond its border is a huge underground salt mine, that in … Continue reading
Saying Goodbye to Our Host
I guess it truly was a moment of serendipity that we ended up at the Las Vegas Food & Wine Festival at Tivoli Village. We really went to Las Vegas to spend time with the children and grandchildren, but who … Continue reading
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Tenjaku Whisky
While we were at the Las Vegas Food & Wine Festival at Tivoli Village we got slightly astray from drinking wines. If that is possible, but I saw a vendor table offering Japanese Whisky and I have never had any. … Continue reading
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Tagged Blended Whisky 40, Japan, Pure Malt 43, Tenjaku Whisky
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Las Vegas Food & Wine Festival
It was quite happenstance or serendipity, but this vacation of ours was planned quite some time prior and only about a month or so prior to our leaving, did I find out about this event. Through the wonders of social … Continue reading
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