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[ In Outdoors/Recreational ]
Yonah Mountain Vineyards Celebrates Wine Highway Weekend
The 5th annual Wine Highway Weekend takes place on Saturday and Sunday, March 20 – 21. Appetizers will be served during the event, and customers will be offered a pour of four wines at no charge or a full tasting, which includes a pour of up to 10 wines and the Yonah Mountain Vineyards glass, for $10...
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[ In Wine ]
Norm's Tasting Notes: 2006 Rodney Strong Russian River Reserve Chardonnay and 2007 Rodney Strong Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards Chardonnay
The Chalk Hill is an affordable wine with a creamy, buttery flavor finished off with toasty oak. The Reserve is a big, rich, full bodied Chardonnay with more complexity, due to its longer aging...
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[ In Wine ]
Norm's Tasting Notes: 2004 Bellino Montepulciano d' Abruzzo
The wine is dry, but soft in character, more so than a Chianti. The flavors swirl together with with hints of both cherries and red berries. The finish has good structure and mild sweet tannins which linger for a while as you contemplate the next sip...
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[ In Concerts/Entertainment ]
Georgia Wine Country Festival to Offer Fine Wine, Art, Music and More
Celebrating eight years in 2009, this Festival is Dahlonega-Lumpkin County's original wine celebration, and attendees will sample Georgia wines from around the state of Georgia.  Celebrants will enjoy unique musical entertainment from the “crush pad” by regional musicians, and Gold City Corral of Dahlonega will present vineyard wagon rides...

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[ In Food & Wine ]
Norm's Tasting Notes: 2004 Riserva Ducale Oro
It is a layered, full-bodied wine with attractive notes of tobacco, sweet red cherries, wild herbs, and toasted oak. The wine's density, persistence and complexity make it one of the better versions in recent memory...
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[ In Food & Wine ]
Norm's Tasting Notes: 2007 Root One Carmenere
The wine is earthy and spicy, with flavors of plum, cherry, and blackberry. The finish is long and lingering with silky tannins from its ten months in American oak. This a complex wine with great structure...
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[ In Food & Wine ]
Norm's Tasting Notes: 2004 Chateau Ste. Michelle Columbia Valley Merlot
It has a wonderful nose of black cherries, with big flavors of the fruit coupled with rich red berries, trailing off into a mellow, but toasty finish with mild and pleasant tannins...
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[ In Food & Wine ]
Norm's Tasting Notes: 2005 Gnarly Head California Merlot
It has a wonderful bouquet of abundant ripe berries and a huge flavor swell of jammy cherry and red berries which just sails on and on. The finish is strong with lingering flavors of the fruit coupled with a nice toasty oak finish that compels another sip...
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[ In Food & Wine ]
2007 Greg Norman California Pinot Noir
This Pinot Noir is ruby red in color with the scent of strawberries. It descends on your taste buds to reveal the swirling flavors of cherries and a hint of the strawberries. The finish is smooth with good structure and the evidence of mild tannins...
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