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Market Monitor
By: Stephen Tanzer
Recent and impending developments affecting the retail wine market:
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2005 White Burgundies
By: Stephen Tanzer
The eagerly awaited 2005 white Burgundies are wonderfully rich and ripe and will give pleasure to all lovers of chardonnay, but only the best of them will deliver the aromatic complexity, minerally soil character and grip that hard-core Burgundy connoisseurs crave.
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New Releases from Australia
By: Josh Raynolds
Josh Raynolds' report features a staggering number of new releases, most of them from the excellent back-to-back vintages of 2004 and 2005. For every super-rich high-end Australian wine, this year's coverage features at least one stunning value in the under-$20 range.
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2004 and 2003 Sauternes and Barsacs
By: Stephen Tanzer
In-the-bottle notes on the freakishly sweet, pure and seductive 2003s from Sauternes and Barsac and a look at the more variable 2004s, a leaner crop of wines in the style of the 2002s.
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2001 Brunello di Montalcino
By: Stephen Tanzer
My favorite Brunello vintage of recent years has it all: deep colors; expressive, nuanced aromas; fleshy sweetness and deep fruit; harmonious ripe acidity; and firm tannins that generally avoid coming off as hard or dry.
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