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| Introduction | |
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| Foreplay | |
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| My Favorite White | |
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| Friulis Favorite Son: Tocai Friulano | |
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| Thin Is In: The New Wave of California Chardonnays | |
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| The Whites of the Andes | |
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| The Forgotten Whites of Bordeaux | |
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| No Respect: Soave | |
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| Gray Is the New White: Pinot Gris | |
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| Translating German Labels | |
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| "All Wine Wishes It Could Be Red" | |
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| The Shedistas of Santa Barbara | |
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| The Roasted Slope of the Rhone | |
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| The House Red of the Montagues and the Capulets | |
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| "An Extreme, Emotional Wine": Amarone | |
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| Cape Crusaders: South African Reds | |
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| The Black Wine of Cahors | |
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| Major Barbera | |
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| Go Ask Alice: The Dark Secret of Bandol | |
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| The Spicy Reds of Chile | |
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| Malbec Rising | |
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| Personality Test: Julia's Vineyard | |
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| How to Impress Your Sommelier | |
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| How to Impress Your Sommelier, Part One: German Riesling | |
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| No More Sweet Talk, or How to Impress Your Sommelier, Part Two: Austrian Riesling | |
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| The Semi-Obscure Treasures of Alsace | |
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| The Discreet Charms of Old-Style Rioja | |
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| The Mysterious Beauty of Sagrantino di Montefalco | |
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| Lovers, Fighters, and Other Obsessives | |
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| Oedipus at Hermitage: Michel Chapoutier | |
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| Ghetto Boys: Greg Brewer and Steve Clifton Get Radical | |
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| Jilted Lover: Auberon Waugh | |
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| The Obsessive: Remirez de Ganuza | |
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| Berkeley's French Ambassador: Kermit Lynch | |
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| The Mad Scientist of Jadot | |
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| Voice in the Wilderness: Willy Frank and the Finger Lakes | |
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| Finessing the Fruit Bombs | |
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| Mountain Men: The Smith Brothers of Smith-Madrone | |
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| Do the Brits Taste Differently? Michael Broadbent and Jancis Robinson | |
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| Robert Mondavi's Bizarro Twin: The Passions and Puns of Randall Grahm | |
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| Expensive Dates | |
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| First Among Firsts? The Glories of Cheval-Blanc | |
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| The Name's Bond | |
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| "A Good and Most Perticular Taste": Haut-Brion | |
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| The Maserati of Champagne | |
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| Bacchanalian Dreambook: The Wine List at La Tour d'Argent | |
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| Matches Made in Heaven | |
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| Fish Stories from Le Bernardin | |
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| What to Drink with Chocolate | |
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| Provencal Pink | |
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| Odd Couples: What to Drink with Asian Food | |
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| Bin Ends | |
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| Baby Jesus in Velvet Pants: Bouchard and Burgundy | |
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| Strictly Kosher | |
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| Body and Soil | |
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| New Zealand's Second Act | |
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| Bubbles and Spirits | |
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| Number Two and Bitching Louder: Armagnac | |
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| White on White: Blanc de Blancs Champagne | |
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| Monk Business: The Secrets of Chartreuse | |
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| Tiny Bubbles: Artisanal Champagnes | |
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| The Wild Green Fairy: Absinthe | |
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| Epilogue: What I Drank on My Forty-eighth Birthday | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |