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Market Monitor
By: Stephen Tanzer
Focus on Barolo and Barbaresco
By: Stephen Tanzer
All three vintages produced very good to outstanding wines, but prices for the best bottles from the Piedmont are skyrocketing and careful selection is essential.
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Best New Wines from the Loire Valley
By: Stephen Tanzer
Coverage includes numerous new releases from the superb 1996 vintage, as well as a host of rich, accessible bottles from 1997.
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Focus on Champagne
By: Stephen Tanzer
New vintage-designated Champagne releases vary significantly from one year to the next, but so do non-vintage bruts. That's why I sample new arrivals every fall.
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Current Releases from California
By: Stephen Tanzer
The quality of California's wines has never been higher, but neither have prices. Use this report to avoid those good-but-hardly-exceptional $80 limited bottlings.
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A Tasting of the 1991 Northern Rhones
By: Stephen Tanzer
The Cote-Roties were extraordinary in my recent horizontal tasting of a very good vintage that has been overshadowed from the outset by the 1990s.
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