Oooh. As an absolute Rieslingfreak™️, the Lidl Clare Valley Australian Riesling 2024 is an absolutely beautiful young drinking dry riesling.

Gosh this is good, lemon, limes, sherbert and rock'n'roll in a glass ... 🥂

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Why 2021 is the best Italian vintage to buy right now

The 2021 Italian vintage is that rare beast, a stellar year that has produced outstanding wines everywhere — no mean feat given the multitude of unique wine styles, soils and climates there, plus the hundreds of …
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2425785/why-2021-is-the-best-italian-vintage-to-buy-right-now-25/

Driver raises a few red flags — including the wine: Bentleyville Police Blotter

BENTLEYVILLE, Ohio Driving in marked lanes, drunk driving, open containers: Liberty Road A patrol officer came upon a Jeep stopped in the middle of Solon Road near South Chagrin Reservation’s Quarry Rock picnic area around 3:15 a.m. Dec. 11 and started following o…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2425808/driver-raises-a-few-red-flags-including-the-wine-bentleyville-police-blotter/

Driver raises a few red flags — including the wine: Bentleyville Police Blotter

BENTLEYVILLE, Ohio Driving in marked lanes, drunk driving, open containers: Liberty Road A patrol officer came upon a Jeep stopped in the middle of Solon Road near South Chagrin Reservation’s Quarry Rock picnic area around 3:15 a.m. Dec. 11 and started following once the driver resumed …
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2425808/driver-raises-a-few-red-flags-including-the-wine-bentleyville-police-blotter/

Why 2021 is the best Italian vintage to buy right now

The 2021 Italian vintage is that rare beast, a stellar year that has produced outstanding wines everywhere — no mean feat given the multitude of unique wine styles, soils and climates there, plus the hundreds of indigenous Italian grapes. Yet from the chilly alpine north down to the hot,…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2425785/why-2021-is-the-best-italian-vintage-to-buy-right-now-25/

French find claim that English invented champagne hard to swallow

In France, the English have a reputation for knowing “nothing about anything”. It was all the more insulting, then, to suggest that they could have invented one of France’s proudest exports: champagne. At an event in Troyes last…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2425784/french-find-claim-that-english-invented-champagne-hard-to-swallow-25/

The best Greek wines to buy now — and why they’re so popular

At last, Greek wines are having a moment in the sun. Rashly billed decades ago as the next big thing, Greece has taken a while to go from niche to mainstream. Yet now every supermarket buyer is on the hunt for a tasty Greek to bottle under their own label, so strong is demand. Com…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2425783/the-best-greek-wines-to-buy-now-and-why-theyre-so-popular-36/

What makes this Spanish red so highly sought after?

So what is it about the Ribera del Duero region that produces such special wines? According to Yolanda García Viadero, a member of the Bodegas Valduero founding family, the key lies in a deep respect for nature. Valduero vineyards are cultivated using traditional, eco-friendly methods. They ar…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2425782/what-makes-this-spanish-red-so-highly-sought-after-8/

The geologist who rocked riesling to prove the wine buffs wrong

No one can follow the hairpin meanders of the River Mosel through western Germany and fail to be struck by the precipitous slopes of the vineyards in its valley, some of which are steeper than ski runs. Its rieslings are celebrated for the mineral, flinty or even schieferig (slate-ish) tas…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2425781/the-geologist-who-rocked-riesling-to-prove-the-wine-buffs-wrong-4/