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It’s official: TasteCamp is headed to Northern Virginia

By Remy Charest | Published: January 11, 2012
What I love most about wine writing is the opportunity to discover new wine regions. Since 2009, TasteCamp, founded by my friend Lenn Thompson, has provided me with some of the best opportunities to do so, with a three-day intensive session of tasting and visiting that has taken participants to Long Island and the Finger [...]
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Live Wine Blogging from Charlottesville, Virginia – now, the reds

By Remy Charest | Published: July 23, 2011
Yesterday was the Live Wine Blogging session for white wines at the Wine Bloggers Conference. Today, after a great keynote speech by Eric Asimov, who insisted on tasting wine in context, we’re stepping right into this speed dating format. Ironic but fun. CalNaturale 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon I was not terribly impressed by the white TetraPak wine from [...]
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Live wine blogging from WBC11 in Charlottesville, Virginia

By Remy Charest | Published: July 22, 2011
The fourth annual Wine Bloggers Conference started officially at 1 PM today in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a great, down to earth keynote speech from Jancis Robinson, followed by breakout sessions (including the one on local wine, which I was happy  to take part in with Lenn Thompson, Frank Morgan and Dave McIntyre). But now, the crazy [...]
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Perfection is personal: why 100 points by Robert Parker is just his opinion

By Remy Charest | Published: January 17, 2011
Last week, Tom Wark published an extremely interesting and enlightening analysis of wines rated 100 pts – a perfect score – by Robert M. Parker Jr. If anyone needed an argument to say that point scores are just glorified opinions, rather than actual “objective” analyses and ratings, this is an excellent one. Out of 224 wines scored [...]
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What happens when you mix culture and alcohol…

By Remy Charest | Published: November 27, 2010
I never thought I’d wind up working on such a project, but when my friend Rachel Black, a food anthropologist now teaching at Boston University, asked me if I was interested in contributing to an encyclopedia about booze, I enthusiastically jumped on board. Okay, it’s not JUST about booze, but rather about Alcohol in Popular Culture, [...]
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