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Summer in Boston. It starts sometime in late June, dries up the remnants of the three months of rain that preceded it, and beats a hasty retreat a few days after the returning students have lugged their belongings from U-Hauls to their fourth-floor walk...
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NOT THAT anyone reading this ever engaged in the highly illegal practice of underage drinking, but remember when it was all so much simpler? (For your friends, I mean. Not you. You went to church every day, asked for extra-credit assignments, helped old...
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WE'LL BE HONEST: if it has an alcohol content, we're happy to drink it. But some people get all snooty in the beer-versus-wine debate. Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Brewery in Delaware, and Marnie Old, an accomplished sommelier, are two...
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AMONG A certain cadre of music fans, near-anonymity is a virtue. The tinier the fan base and the more micro-specific the genre, the better. A trio of yaks playing klezmer standards on didgeridoo? Sure, great - until they take their act on the road, that...
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IT'S NOT easy being green." So sang a triangle-mouthed frog puppet, once. Of course, at the time he had a hand jammed up his ... well, anyway, I'm not sure his plight applies to us. Still, mention "green" in the context of wine...
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THERE'S A restaurant in Girona, Spain, where the wine lists (yes, plural) are delivered on a rolling cart, because they're too heavy to carry and too bulky to peruse on the table. Most of the world's great wines are represented, they're...
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"OH, I CAN'T. It goes right to my head!" And with this phrase, a thousand eager hands (attached to lusting hearts) reach forth, offering yet another glass of sparkling wine to their dates. But is it true? Does sparkling wine really accelerate...
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AN ACQUAINTANCE of mine once made a personal study of the great vineyards of Germany. His methodology: put whatever stones or soil he found there into his mouth, taste, and compare. Maybe he was part chicken and had some sort of vestigial gizzard, but...
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MY DINING companion looked up from the wine list, perplexed. "But it's supposed to be a great vintage." "Yes, it is. Which is why you shouldn't order it." He dropped the list on the table, exasperated. "Did anyone ever...
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LIKE SOME sort of tipsy Noah's Ark, the world of wine comes in pairs. Or maybe that means it's like socks. Or pants. You'll pardon me if I struggle with this whole simile thing; I'm a metaphor man, myself. Anyway: the point is that there...
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I GET A lot of interesting questions, yet I always have trouble with this popular query: "What's a good wine to bring as a gift?" Why so tough? Because it's virtually unanswerable without knowing the recipient's preferences. Which...
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SIX COURSES in, I knew I was in trouble. It was my introduction to wine, food, France. And, more important, to my girlfriend's family. I was in some forsaken little village in Lorraine, sitting at a table with her parents, other relatives, and their...
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USUALLY IT'S easy to round up an entourage for a night on the town. But there are occasions when plans fall through and you're left on your own, hung out to dry on a weeknight or, worse, a weekend. You could throw on some sweats and resign yourself...
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WHILE STANDING at the bar perusing the cocktail list, don't think for a minute that what you order doesn't speak volumes about who you are. James Beard Award-winning writer Eric Felten, who pens a weekly cocktail column in the Wall Street Journal...
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AS MUCH AS I'd like to participate in this whole 10th-anniversary shindig, I've only been here a few months. What could I possibly write that would be relevant? "Oh, I love the way the offices have been updated since this summer, from dingy...
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