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Market Monitor
By: Stephen Tanzer
Recent and impending developments affecting the retail wine market.
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2000 and 1999 Red Burgundies
By: Stephen Tanzer
Despite a tricky growing season and harvest, vintage 2000 produced a large crop of supple, ripe wines that will give considerable early pleasure. The succulent, beautifully balanced and generally more structured 1999s rank as one of the two or three best crops of red Burgundies of the past decade, and are well worth buying and cellaring.
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The Best New Wines from South Africa
By: Stephen Tanzer
The quality of South African wine has climbed impressively in recent years while prices have remained flat in most export markets, making bottles from many of the top producers stunning value.
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Oregon Pinot Noir Update
By: Stephen Tanzer
My annual coverage of Oregon's pinot noirs covers late releases from the superb 1999 vintage and early bottlings from the nearly equally strong 2000. The best of these new wines number among the finest Oregon pinots I've tasted to date.
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