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Pet Nat: The OG of Bubbly
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Pet Nat. Pétillant Naturel. Naturally Sparkling. Ancestral Method. A fizzy, often funky wine that finishes fermenting in the bottle. The OG of bubbly.  Master of Wine and lovely instructor at the International Wine Center in New York City, Mary Gorman-McAdams...
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gaston chiquet champagne
Ditch Your Veuves and Get Into Grower Champagnes
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Purple Mouthed Tip: For the same price — often less — you’re going to find a much more exciting bottle, one that doesn’t ride on the price of making you a sheep, rather hard work and place. So ditch your...
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Drinking Champagne
WSET D4 – The Sparkling Wine Takeover
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Though I'm as bubble-mouthed as I am purpled, this portion of the diploma program has me on edge. I've fizzed well for years now, but never with the focus I've applied to still wines…bubbles are what got us through all...
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Purple Mouthed Santorini Greece
Purple Tasting Menu Mouthed in Imerovigli
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If you're going to Santorini, stay in Imerovigli and eat at La Maison. The food is fun, the wine pairings spot-on and the view is unforgettable. The somm rocked it that night with native varieties and spot-on pairings. I should...
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rhoneissance
My Rhôneissance
So I’m in whole a Rhôneissance thing right now. The Côte-Rôtie, Cornas, Gigondas, the big Pape-A…All things considered, at least the #WSETDiploma program has given me that, because prior to, I never knew about these outstanding wines that are so...
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international wine center
Welcome to My #DIPWSET Journey
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And it’s official, my WSET Diploma studies are underway once more!  This week I began what will be the most intense, most difficult course of my wine life to date: D3 - Wines of the World. Spanning over nine months with weekly...
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Chardonnay wine tasting
My Kendall Jackson Crisis
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As I grapple with having blindly assessed an $11 Kendall Jackson Char as “Very Good” according to WSET standards, so many thoughts...
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Franco Traversa
Traversa, I love you.
Visiting Traversa was one of those wine-made moments I’ll never forget. The people, the land, Nebbiolo, Barbera…the people! Their wines vibrate, limestone-licked and expressed. The winemakers’ warmth present in every sip.
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instagram for wineries
Instagram Tips for Wineries
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Instagram is all the rage these days. So naturally, the wine world has hopped on board to add this social media platform to their marketing mix. Let me shed some light on how to use it!
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azimut negre
The Purple Heart Award
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The Purple Heart is awarded in the name of the CEO of Purple Mouthed to any wine of the world who, while poured under competent (ish) authority in any capacity with Kendal Montgomery, has been LOVED and drank in its...
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