What wines are supposed to taste like

Did you ever wonder what wine varietals are supposed to taste like? I know I did… but not enough so that it ever stopped me from reviewing and ratings wines anyway!
Anyway here are some links to sites that provide clues what “they” say about the varietals:

Professional Friends of Wine
It’s all about grapes
CNN Wine [...]

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Revised Site Layout

We apologize for any inconvenience that you may have had with respect to some bugs present in our site layout. I think that most, if not all, the bugs have been repaired. I noticed the problems last night when visiting our niece (in her beautiful new home).
Should you encounter any problems when using [...]

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Wine Bargains!

Today I was the recipient of a very informative email highlighting a number of pointers to good quality, inexpensive wines. The base article may be found at:
How to Choose Wines: WD’s uncovered the secrets to finding affordable, yummy vino
If you just want to see the wine recommendations you can do that to by [...]

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Red Wines & Funnels

One of the best items for saving marginal red wines is a good funnel.
Finding bad tasting red wines has never really been a problem; but, making them worth drinking can be tricky. We won’t pretend to know the reasons why funnels and aeration work, but they can, and often do! Interestingly, we have [...]

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Officially Open!

Hello everyone!
Today (Thanksgiving 2007) GoodWines.org is officially open for viewers (business).
We hope you find the GoodWines site helpful, informative and fun. Right now there is not a huge amount of content but that will change in the fullness of time. It is our hope to provide our own wine reviews along with many [...]

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Wine Tasting

So you think you might want to learn the essence of wine tasting. Turns out you can learn a lot online. Although we should note that some of the sites are a bit annoying with the streaming video and audio. Anyway here are a few of the good sites:
Basics of Wine Tasting
Learning [...]

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Welcome to GoodWines.org!

This site is hosted by Mark Rabideau and his drinking buddy ‘Ann’, two frugal wine people.
Although we can hardly be classified as wine connoisseurs, we do like wine! We, also, do not think it is essential to spend a fortune on good wines. And so… we are on the eternal search for the perfect [...]

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