Food and Drink

One terroir, many wines Winemakers are drawn to this Santa Rita Hills vineyardBy Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
On the website for Wes Hagen's vineyard and winery, you'll find the usual pictures of family members and pets. But you'll also find a bonus -- full-color photographs of dirt.

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Bordeaux's lighter side The region’s white wines merit a sipBy Bill Daley, Chicago Tribune
The white wines of Bordeaux could use some publicity. For decades the focus has been on the region's red wines, those glorious, high-priced clarets emblazoned with the names of some of France's most prestigious houses, Lafite-Rothschild, Margaux, Latour and Petrus.

Food and Drink: "Off-the-list wines are one of the restaurant world's best-kept little secrets. Nearly every top-flight dining room has a stash, and under certain conditions will bring a bottle out of hiding � but not for everyone."

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A good dessert wine feeds all the senses with its color, aroma, flavor and mouth feel. These wines are fun to sip, their oft-exotic flavors underscored by a seductive voluptuousness of texture

Swirl n' Spit: "V alentine's Day is a make-or-break occasion that either solidifies a relationship as worthwhile or, well, sends it careening into a nosedive of regret and disdain."

Wines of The Times: A Visitor Welcomed in Cold Weather: "Barley wine — the robust, complex brewed counterpart to Port, Madeira or Armagnac — is one reason to celebrate winter."