Weekend Wine: Colby Red California 2010
This dry red blend is not just another bottle on the shelf but a fundraiser for people, especially kids, with heart trouble.
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Box wines can score touchdown on Super Sunday
Wine may sound like sissy stuff for Super Bowl Sunday, but I’m betting the corks will be popping about the time the chicken wings and onion dip come out.
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St. Julian keeps new wines coming
Leave it to the oldest winery in the state to keep rolling out new wines.
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Mild winter creates problems for ice wine makers
Along with ski resort operators and snowmobile vendors, the unusually mild winter has been rough on makers of a cold-climate delicacy called ice wine. The pricey dessert beverage, produced by wineries stretching from Minnesota through New York and in parts of Canada, is revered for its sweetness and often-syrupy texture. It comes from grapes that are picked and pressed while they’re still frozen, yielding precious drops of concentrated juice.
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Weekend Wine
Barefoot Bubbly Moscato Spumante California, $8-$10: This is a congenial pour for New Year's or any time, meaning it's likely to please serious wine drinkers as well as novices. Peaches, apricot, lime zest, tangerine and pink grapefruit light up the palate. It's not overly sweet, with good acidity and a lovely spritz to tease the taste buds. Alcohol is a gentle 10 percent. Pour it with dessert or serve it as a foil to spicy Asian appetizers. Look for it at supermarkets.
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Best bet bubblies to ring in 2012
It’s time to welcome in the new year with a glass of wine that has lots of tiny bubbles in it. We talked to key sales people at wine-buying destinations all over Metro Detroit for their best bet bubbly for less than $20.
Sandra Silfven on Wine
Sandra Silfven has written about wine for more than 25 years. She's a longtime copy editor at The Detroit News, as well as a former restaurant critic.
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Melody Baetens writes stories about Metro Detroit clubs, dining, music and the local beer and spirit industry. E-mail her at mbaetens@detnews.com and read her blog, Detroit After Dark.
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