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Scott Miller
Chief Executive Officer, WineSquire.com
Scott,
a Seattle-area native, is a long-time enthusiast of
good wines at good values.
When faced with the huge wall of wines in the stores, and having
learned that not all same-priced bottles are created equal, he
went looking for wine recommendations... However, the prevailing sources for recommendations (i.e. the national wine magazines and syndicated wine writers) still did not
meet his needs. In the magazines, the high value wines (high
rating, reasonable price) were often either unavailable in the
northwest market, or were from such limited production that most
wine resellers never even saw a bottle. And it also occurred that
the various individual wine writer's tastes in wine and his own
were...incompatible. How to know what to buy?
Seeing a need for a
guide to good wine choices that can actually be found on the
shelf, Scott jumped at the chance to work with the local wine
industry to identify and promote the best available
and reasonable wine values in the Greater Seattle market.
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Personal
Picks |
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Carmenet Dynamite Merlot North Coast 1999 (California) $18
Cherries! This full-flavored red is bursting with dark ripe fruit.
Inky-red with a luscious round mouthfeel like biting into a homemade
blackberry pie. Complex hints of burnt cherry wood, tobacco and cassis. Crisp
acid balance cleans palate without overstimulating your tastebuds. This merlot
rises above the ordinary under $20 bottles and is great for drinking now!
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Acacia Chardonnay Carneros 2000 (California) $15
This juicy chardonnay has huge honey-lemon flavors with notes of
japanese pear and demerara sugar, followed by a grassy sauvignon
blanc edge. Underneath is a gentle vanilla and nutmeg spice from
light oaking. Well-balanced and yummy, we kept tasting more with
every sip! -WineSquire Tasters |
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Recommended
Books |
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The Complete Wine Investor
In The Complete Wine Investor, William Sokolin, the nation's leading fine
wine merchant and investor, tells connoisseurs--both novice and expert, how they can
turn their love of wine into a profitable venture.
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Jancis Robinson's Guide to Wine Grapes
A superb guide to wine grapes, by one of the world's leading authorities. This volume
covers over 850 grapes, and doubles as an informative buying guide, telling readers
everything they need to know to make an informed decision to buy or pass.
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Wine
When it was first published, Wine was universally
acclaimed as a suburb guide to the appreciation and understanding of
wine. With Hugh Johnson's clear, enthusiastic style, Wine
remains unchallenged as the finest contemporary essay on the
subject. A must for any wine book collection!
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 Plant
Life: Growing a Garden in the Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest magazine readers have long asked for a collection
of Plant Life columns, and now, to celebrate the fourth anniversary
of her weekly column, Valerie Easton has updated 68 of her most
popular pieces and collected them into a new book. It is arranged
seasonally, with color photos by Richard Hartlage, taken over the
course of one year in Valerie's own Lake Forest Park garden. There
are photos, too, of the "Now In Bloom" feature for every week of the
year, as well as personal musings and practical ideas on making and
enjoying a garden year-round.
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Lighthouse Stevensons
"The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses
by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson." "Extraordinary" is
certainly the appropriate term for Bathurst's excellent
documentation of the incredible Stevenson family of lighthouse
engineers. Up to this time, most of the attention toward this
families accomplishments has focused on the author,
Robert Louis Stevenson, and left others of his amazing family in
the dust. Constructing these towering structures in the most
inhospitable places imaginable (such as the aptly named Cape Wrath),
using only 19th-century technology, is an achievement that beggars
belief. At just one lighthouse, the ground rocks were prepared by
hand in waves and winds "strong enough to lift a man bodily off the
rock" and that "it took 120 hours to dress a single stone for the
outside of the tower, and 320 hours to dress one of the central
stones. In total 5000 tons of stone were quarried and shipped"--and
all by hand. It is mind-boggling stuff: you'll look at lighthouses
with a new respect. If you like good non-fiction. Try this one!
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 Dream Reaper
Recounts the 13-year struggle of two cousins from Kansas farm
country to perfect and market a revolutionary design for a grain
reaper... The author, Craig Canine, has fashioned a page-turning,
suspense-filled, dramatic telling of an entrepreneur's struggle,
laced with a surprisingly fascinating history of the development of
modern agriculture. Not just for business-school types or farmers,
it is a tale well-told and absolutely worthy of the rave reviews it
has received. |
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