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Pour Man: This Fair Trade Wine Might Be The Cheapest Thing At Your Co-op

Pour Man: This Fair Trade Wine Might Be The Cheapest Thing At Your Co-op

by Warren Johnston | Aug 9, 2017 | Articles, Columns, Food + Booze, Food Booze and Beyond, The Pour Man

Riojana; Rosé, 2016; La Rioja, Argentina, $6.99 Not only is Riojana rosé a very good wine that sells for an incredibly low price, but it is also a wine that you can feel good about drinking. Riojana wines are produced by La Riojana, a certified Fairtrade cooperative...
The Pour Man: The Sheep Eat The Grape Skins So You Don’t Have To

The Pour Man: The Sheep Eat The Grape Skins So You Don’t Have To

by Warren Johnston | Jul 31, 2017 | Articles, The Pour Man

Don’t let the price of this wine put you off. It’s a bit expensive for my purse too, but it frequently goes on sale for much less, and it is an excellent and well-balanced New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc that won’t drown you with overpowering grapefruit flavors or aromas...
The Pour Man: Columbard, The Grape I Never Knew I Loved

The Pour Man: Columbard, The Grape I Never Knew I Loved

by Warren Johnston | Jul 17, 2017 | Articles, Columns, Newsletter, The Pour Man

Mont Gravet, a light, refreshing, low-alcohol white wine, is perfect for drinking on warm summer evenings. It also has the added enjoyment of being a wine of discovery, one from an unfamiliar region, made from a grape that gets little attention and that I know little...
The Pour Man: Wine That Took 2,600 Years To Perfect

The Pour Man: Wine That Took 2,600 Years To Perfect

by Warren Johnston | Jul 3, 2017 | Articles, Columns, The Pour Man

Vintners have been making dry, pink wine in Provence since 600 B.C., and they have gotten pretty good at it. In fact, the region’s winemakers would say that Cotes de Provence makes the best rosé in the world, and I agree that the crisp, bright wines are awfully good....
The Pour Man: One Wine To Lure Them All

The Pour Man: One Wine To Lure Them All

by Warren Johnston | Jun 12, 2017 | Articles, Columns, The Pour Man

The Original Dark Horse is a gateway wine, according to a recently published article in Forbes magazine. The brand is designed to gradually wean inexperienced millennials from beer, cider and stuff that comes in jugs and hook them into pricier wine offerings. Once...
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