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If I had to pick one well-known white wine variety that I could go back to time after time for a broad range of food pairings as well as everyday drinking, it would be sauvignon blanc hands down.
In these hot summer months, TODAY wine columnist Edward Deitch enjoys three refreshing whites that match well with food and are not too high in alcohol.
A bottle of bubbly was the perfect wine the other night as we gathered for an informal dinner with friends on a deserted beach on Nantucket. We had packed up the cars with beach chairs and coolers, grill, portable table, several wines, a variety of dishes that would be easy to serve in sand and a brisk breeze, and, of course, the kids.
Chenin blanc doesn’t have the following of some of its better-known white cousins, such as chardonnay and sauvignon blanc. The most famous wines come from France’s Loire Valley, where chenin blanc is the signature variety of Vouvray, Montlouis and Savennières, the top villages after which the wines are named. California grows chenin successfully in Clarksburg in the Sacramento Delta. There’s even a winery (Paumanok) that produces a nice example of it on the North Fork of Long Island.
Let’s see a show of hands: Are we tired of winter yet? It’s that time of year when spring starts teasing us. The days get noticeably longer, temperatures here in the Northeast start flirting with readings above frigid and, best of all for me, the wines of spring start making their first appearances (I’ll ignore the fact that it started snowing as I write this).
Ice mass balance of alpine glaciers at high altitudes Alpine glaciers, which are mainly at an altitude between 2000 and 4000 meters, shrank considerably during the 20th century and particularly during the past twenty years, losing an average of 1 to 1.5 kilometers in length. However, the situation is different above 4200 meters.
Hack a $3 pen to use specialized Mont Blanc refilsMont Blanc, regarded as the worlds finest writing pens, specially designs their refills so you must use them with their $200.00+ pens. Now, with this guide, you can hack an ordinary $3.00 pen to use those refills and save a boat-load of money.
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