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• Audio Tasting Note - Our First lunch in Lisbon

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:21 am

  Tags: Food, General, Podcast, Tasting Note, Enjoy, It Quinta, Aveleda, 2005white, Wine, Produced, Peach, Lemons, Food, Pairing, Quinta, Citrus, Zingy, Acidity, Moscato, Tons, Tourist, Trap, Vinho, Verde, Porco, Alentejanarating

  of peach and lemons. Food pairing: Porco AlentejanaRating: 4 (in 5)(Tasted on August 3, 2007) Gabriella’s Tasting Note Quinta da Aveleda 2005White wine produced by Quinta de Aveleda in Vinho Verde, PortugalNote: In the heart of Lisbon at a bar called Solar do Duque, we drank this perfectly light and refreshing lime green wine to ease

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• Who says I look incompatible with Shahid Kapur: Vidya Balan

  Published: September 20, 2007, 7:38 am

  Tags: Bollywood News, Incompatible, Aziz, Shahid, Vidya, Kapur, Pairing, Delightedly, Juhi

  Vidya protested about her pairing in Aziz Mirza’s latest which she’s currently shooting abroad. “People are raising the question of our on-screen compatibility. All I’ll say is, wait and see,” said Vidya. Her co-stars range from Saif Ali Khan and John Abraham to Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar and Shahid

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• Bodega Profile - Bodegas Bernabe Navarro - DO Alicante

  Published: November 6, 2007, 5:04 am

  Tags: Bodega Profile, Spain, Tasting Note, Alicante, Food Pairing, Monastrell, Navarro, Oak

  Have you ever been sent back in time after looking at wine label? Personally, I tend to have these experiences most often with aromas, rather than images. Maybe the bouquet of a wine will catapult me back to my aunt’s kitchen helping her make a sweet cranberry strudel, or a vacation I took horseback riding through a pungent compost field.

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• Impossible Wine and Food Pairings? Wine and Shoe Pairings?

  Published: November 12, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Blog, Portugal, Dessert, Pairing, Port, Port Wine, Wine Pairing

  Impossible Food and Wine Pairings, asking readers to suggest wines that fit the niche food, or comfort food, that we typically don’t think pair with wine. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading the suggestions and combinations people have come up with, and am always on the look out for something new that I might not have thought of

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• Bear, Snake or Monkey...the Perfect Wine Pairings (via 'Word of Mouth')

  Published: November 18, 2007, 8:11 pm

  Tags: North Pole, Bear Steak, Cooking, Food, Restaurants, Travel, Unusual, Wine Pairing, Word Of Mouth

  I don't think that this theme will make it on the Wine Blogging Wednesday list but just in case, I wanted to mention this Bear Necessities piece by mystery writer Gwladys Fouché. read more

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• Port Wine and Chocolate

  Published: November 29, 2007, 8:56 am

  Tags: Food, Portugal, Chocolate, Lbv, Port, Port Wine, Ruby, Tawny, Vintage, Wine Pairing

  sound like the most obvious pairing in the world, it’s not. In my many years of both selling and writing about wine, I’ve heard numerous debates on the subject, both for and against this rather contentious chocolate and wine pairing. But among the numerous voices, one element always remains consistent, people either love it or hate

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• You can’t make this stuff up.

  Published: May 24, 2008, 2:49 pm

  Tags: Video, Gregory Pike, Guy, Gregory, Pike, Hangs, Helps, And, Explains, Interspecies, Pairing, Students, Ucsb, Downtown, Santa, Barbara, Gestation, Period, Chose, Kitty

  The video below is not a setup. This guy, Gregory Pike hangs out in downtown Santa Barbara every day. From the Associated Students at UCSB website linked above: “The dog raised the cat I used her gestation period to raise the cat like a puppy. She chose Kitty from the litter, so she thinks it’s [...]

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• Jelena Jankovic and Jamie Murray won't team up for Wimbledon 2008

  Published: June 10, 2008, 12:07 pm

  Tags: Jelena Jankovic, Wimbledon, Jamie, Murray, Mixed, Doubles, Murray's, Teamed, Pairing, Spontaneous

  were a spontaneous and fun pairing at Wimbledon 2007. They teamed up totally unexpectedly, and in the end won the mixed doubles title. It was incredible. However, this year world No.3 Jankovic will let Murray down, as she thinks she should focus all her energy on singles. Murray is currently in search of a new doubles partner. He is committed

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• The Wonderful World of Sherry: A food pairing at The Astor Center NYC

  Published: June 18, 2008, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Astor Center, Astorcenter, Food Pairing, Roger Kugler, Sherry, Wine

  World of Sherry: A Food Pairing. Roger Kugler, Sommelier of Suba Restaurant and Wine Director of Boqueria Restaurant will lead a discussion and tasting of those beautiful and complex fortified wines and how they pair so well with various foods. Roger has an extensive background in wines, with a strong focus on those from Spain. He is

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• Best Buy's $10 headset pairing service includes testing, finger pointing

  Published: July 14, 2008, 6:16 am

  Tags: Best Buy, Bestbuy, Bluetooth, Pairing, Ubuntu

  headset-to-cellphone pairing baffles consumers so much that they're now handing over a Hamilton at Best Buys in California (in support of the new hands-free calling law) to avoid the procedure. Eight years after the launch of the world's first Bluetooth headset from Ericsson, this is where we're at. Still, at $10, consider it a bargain --

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• Best Buy thinks we're idiots, charges $10 for Bluetooth headset pairing

  Published: July 14, 2008, 4:18 pm

  Tags: Services, Announcements, Best Buy, Bestbuy, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Pairing Service, Handsfree, Headset, Pairing

  a new "Bluetooth Pairing" service. For the incredible price of $9.99, you too can forgo the hassles of pairing your own Bluetooth headset to your handset. Instruction booklets, be damned. Best Buy's Geek Squad will take care of your California (and Washington) vehicle-code compliance. The rest of us will be laughing all

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• Bluetooth Headsets are Easy to Pair

  Published: July 14, 2008, 9:39 pm

  Tags: Technology, Best Buy 9 99, Bluetooth, Headsets, Pair, Pairing

  Buy is offering a Bluetooth pairing service for $9.99 I was further convinced that you can make money doing just about anything. There are plenty of people out there that are willing to pay for a service that they want or need. The reason this news effected me is that I have paired up 3 different Bluetooth headsets to 3 different cell phones in

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• Beer vs. Wine

  Published: July 28, 2008, 8:05 am

  Tags: Beer And Food, Beer Festival, Beer Dinner, Beer Pairing, Beer Vs Wine, Wine Dinner, Wine Pairing

  that compared his beer pairing suggestions with her wine pairing suggestions. The idea has caught on and similar events are beginning to show up all over the place. The latest is a dinner scheduled this week in St. Louis. Wine from Majestic Wines and beer from Schlafly Beer will by paired to various dishes and compared by the

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