Pearl & Ash – New York

Five TWA reviewers limbered up for their Matter of Taste event in the New York by checking out one of the Big Apple's most mouth-watering wine lists at Pearl &...

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Taken with a Pinch of Wine Faults

It’s tempting for us wine experts to want to get on our high horses about wine faults. The (r)evolution of winemaking in the last twenty or so years means that...

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From Security Guard to Wine Educator: Chatting with Dana Hunter

Six years ago, Dana Hunter was a full-time security guard in downtown Lodi, a city located in California's San Joaquin County, and perhaps still best known for the eponymously-titled song...

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Some of the Finest Wine Books Ever Written (...But Not by Jancis or Hugh)

Neal Martin examines some of the books that inspired him over the years, but have not be written by Hugh Johnson or Jancis Robinson, since we already know how great...

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Russian River Valley Part 3: Exploring Green Valley

The neighborhood of Green Valley is unique in that it is also an established sub-appellation of the Russian River Valley (RRV). Green Valley was granted appellation status in 1983 and...

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Magdalena Restaurant – The Ivy Hotel (July 2016)

I have eaten at least a half-dozen meals at this small, boutique restaurant inside the exquisite and relatively modest Ivy Hotel in midtown Baltimore. Chef Mark Levy, in less than...

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Bordeaux 2016 - Live From The Vines

After spending three days in Bordeaux inspecting the beginning of the 2016 harvest, Neal Martin reports from the vines....

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Bird & The Bottle: A Local Favorite

Local powerhouse restaurateurs Mark and Terri Stark are at it again, this time with their most recent addition to their restaurant collection, Bird & The Bottle. Nestled in an old...

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Hedonistic with the Gods - Amansara, Angkor - Part 3

Part 3 continues... And return we did, in the denseness of darkness in the morning, and I mean early morning—5am! And that entailed being gently woken up by the Amansara...

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Kushi Uemon – Tokyo

The intrepid "gaijin" Neal Martin ventures into the deepest Tokyo to check out one of its finest yakitori restaurants along with a bevy of superb wines......

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