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Wine Tasting in Oregon – Wine Factor’s experience at Coeur de Terre Winery
I’m a lucky guy. I get to travel and taste Pinot Noirs with my good friends the Hurleys, proprietors of Wine Factor. We’ve spent the last decade traipsing around California, visiting wineries large and small, and I think I have a … Continue reading
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“Retronasal” Wine-Tasting
Want to get a real blast of a wine’s flavor? Try retronasal breathing! Sounds pretty funny, huh? It can be! If you’re with friends, you’ve had a few glasses of wine already, and you try this for the first time, … Continue reading
Why Do We Swirl?
“Why do we swirl wine?” So you are sitting in a nice restaurant, and you see the couple at the table next to you swirling their wine around, smelling it, then sipping it. Why do they go through all those … Continue reading
What Does it Take to Create a Quality Pinot Noir Wine? (part one of 3000)
by Patrick Hurley Well, besides divine intervention, the art of making a quality wine is a lot harder than you would probably imagine. If you were as experimental as I was in college, blissfully adding sugar and Welch’s Grape Juice … Continue reading
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Basics of Wine Tasting
What makes some wines better than others? It is hard to tell what makes a wine better than another before actually opening the bottle and sampling it for yourself. A quality pinot noir comes from grapes that have been properly … Continue reading
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