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Families in McLaren Vale

McLaren Vale, the home of the Curtis Family Vineyards, is just 45 minutes drive south of South Australia’s capital of Adelaide, has been making wine for one and a half centuries. That’s not as long as wine has been made in Italy, but the results are just as encouraging. And how a family with its ancestry dating back to the 15th Century has brought its expertise to McLaren vale with a new range of wines with an impressive European lineage. Continue reading

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Wine Stores On the Net

In recent years, like a lot of people, I’ve been buying more of my wine online. The picture I would prefer to hold of myself is the fellow who faithfully patronizes (perhaps plagues?) the local wine shops rather than browses some brightly arrayed screen. To be sure, I’d rather be there in person, discussing a wine’s qualities with an enthusiastic merchant rather than passively scrolling through professional tasting notes. And I believe in the importance of neighborhood proprietors (whether they sell wine or house paint) to a vital, thriving community; they’re the hubs of the real social network. Continue reading

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Is Vegetarianism On A Budget Possible?

The household budget represents a substantial part of most families’ expenditure and of that the largest part of the bill is for food. Meat probably forms the largest part of that food bill too, so you would become forgiven for thinking that you could save a lot of money by giving up meat. So, you would think that becoming a vegetarian would save you some money. Continue reading

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“Live the wine life!” Starview Vineyards

Duration: 00:02:19View: 4,172 StarView Vineyards is home to a family owned and operated vineyard and winery. Located in rural Southern Illinois in the Shawnee Hills American Viticulture area, the state’s only Federally designated wine-grape producing region, StarView grows and produces … Continue reading

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