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Market Monitor
By: Stephen Tanzer
Recent and impending developments affecting the retail wine market.
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Alsace 2002 and 2001
By: Stephen Tanzer
The quality gap between Alsace's elite producers and the rest is greater today than ever before. Both 2002 and 2001 posed challenges for the region's growers, but the producers I visited this fall made very good to outstanding wines in both vintages.
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Focus on Champagne
By: Stephen Tanzer
My annual coverage includes dozens of non-vintage bottlings that will take you through the upcoming holiday season in style, as well as many more 1996 releases, a year that's shaping up as the greatest Champagne vintage of our generation.
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Best New Wines from Washington State
By: Stephen Tanzer
Thanks to a string of successful vintages and steadily climbing quality--not to mention today's frequently absurd prices for California cabernet--now is a perfect time to discover Washington's best red wine producers.
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Austria's Amiable 2002s
By: David Schildknecht
Austria's 2002 vintage yielded especially charming, food-friendly wines that are likely to win new friends.
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