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Randy Caparoso is an award winning Denver-based wine journalist and restaurant wine consultant. Believing that wine is a food like a rose is a rose, he writes about the best and latest wines for the foods we love to eat most. You can reach him directly at RandyCaparoso@earthlink.net.

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Chicken (recipes & wine matches) everybody loves

Let's talk chicken and wine matches. But why? The way I see it: I learned long ago that ordering chicken in every restaurant gives you a pretty good...
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A dude's Thanksgiving (wines for turkeys)

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Wine & cheese matching demystified

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Red wine with fish revisited

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What is that leathery or barnyardy taste in your wine?

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The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast. One of the controversies that emerged in the 1990s concerns an extremely common, but often glossed over,...
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Organic wine match of the day: Neal Cabernet Sauvignon & braised minted lamb shanks

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“When I told my dad we were going to take the company organic,” says Mark Neal, “he drove over to Sonoma and came back with a tray...
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Organic wine match of the day: Beckman Purisima & summer grills

I could see for miles and miles from the top of the Purisima Mountain Vineyard, owned and farmed by Steve Beckman of Santa Barbara’s Beckman...
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Organic wine match of the day: Tres Sabores Perspective and John Broening's gnocchi with pig's feet

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I spent more time with Julie Johnson at her CCOF certified Tres Sabores than any other single winemaker during a recent three week swing through the...
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Organic wine match of the day: Ceago Sauvignon Blanc & nothings

So now we that we have choices between organic and non-organic foods, eco-friendly and non-eco stiletto heels, hybrid and non-hybrid cars, etc., why...
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Organic wine match of the day: Robert Sinskey Marcien & braised veal shanks

When Biodynamic® guru Alan York began consulting with winegrower/proprietor Rob Sinskey of Robert Sinskey Vineyards (a.k.a. RSV), the first thing...
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