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One of the best Dad's Army wheezes of the British home guard in the phoney war which later went postal, was to jumble up the sign posts on country lanes in England so that when the panzers rolled up the road to London, they'd end up in Middle Wallop. SA vinous terroir is very Mom's [...]

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…Carol Russell, found favorable soils in southern Massachusetts - "rich New England loam on well drained gravel". Add in a a family history in producing wine and you have the conditions for a nice wine. And that was just what we decided at # dlw13 - the 2010 Pinot Noir. As I recall, the wine was very smooth, more plum than cherry, with an earthy-dirty character in the mid. Very pleasant, but at $ 30 - be prepared to pay for local.

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…belies the fact that in summer this is the hottest wine growing area of Europe. Not wanting to miss the England versus Wales, we watched the rugby at the house of Johnny and Helen Symington before driving to the hotel to change for dinner at The Factory House. The Factory house was originally built by the British Port wine shippers as a type of gentleman's club to discuss their business. Today the members represented are still all British-owned Port companies and they still meet …

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I have a confession to make, I love Zinfandel. Sadly if you say that in England people may think you mean White Zinfandel, the wine of choice for people who don't much care for wine, but will drink it if it tastes more like a still strawberry alco-pop. Red Zinfandel can be heavenly, but it grows in California. Whilst I may pray for rain in California so the grapes can grow and they can make more wine it won't do me much good. By the time wine has been made and shipped …

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…"Resurvey of Cold Friday." It was a land grant from the King of England to Lord Baltimore. The winemaker's home is circa 1756. Since 1983 Fred and Carol Wilson and Neill Bassford, family and friends, have made Elk Run a brand name in Maryland wine.

Elk Run became a bonded winery in 1983 and is managed by Fred Wilson (viticulturist, enologist and general manager), Carol Wilson (marketing) and Neill Bassford (assistant winemaker and vineyard manager).

• Topics: Elk Run, Maryland, Pinot Noir, Vineyard, Shiraz
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…the wine, which will only, with age, become crusted. The trade between Portugal and England was dependent on the extent to which we were irritated or at war with France, but the Methuen Treaty of 1703 coincided pleasingly with the habit of adding brandy to the wine and the practice of ‘second year' bottling became more prevalent in the middle of the eighteenth century. The first specifically vintage-dated wines correspond with the emergence of the extant bottle-shape and there are …

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…time they were found largely on the East coast and heavily in the New England territory. Immigrants brought their love of cider from the old world, where cider, called scrumpy, was the beverage of choice in pubs.

According to Jonathan, "With the rise of prohibition, many traditional drinks where forced out of popularity. It is my personal belief that prohibition coupled with a changing apple market (cultivating of more consumer friendly apples) led to ciders ultimate decent. Cider …

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…Jonathan opened the seminar for thirty wine writers and members of the New England trade saying, "we study Bordeaux so we can discover and appreciate regions like Ribera Del Duero." Benchmarking field players against pinnacle performers makes sense. Knowing state of the art generates comfort and confidence discovering overperformers and their idiosyncratic advantages.

Last night in Cormons, a pastoral town straddling the Slovenian/Italian border in the heart of the …

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Heather Rankin is co-owner (with her brother, Christian Rankin) of Obladee Wine Bar in Halifax. The oldest of five kids, she was born and lived in the Halifax area until she was a young teen, when her parents moved to the fishing town of Port au Choix on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland.

After studying at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS, and at Carleton in Ottawa, she spent 15 years working in web development in places like New York and London, England.

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…St. Helena, CA, Drabkin has since worked in some other New England kitchens including Rhode Island's Stone House at Pietra Restaurant in Little Compton, & more recently at Harvest Restaurant in Cambridge, MA. During her two-year tenure at Harvest, she created seasonal menus from local produce available in Boston.

Drabkin said, " I am trained in the nuances of pastry, but what I think our guests will taste in my work is much more than technique & fresh …

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