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Wines Organic, Cheap, and Young: Villa Teresa Veneto Merlot 2011

I’ve been so busy focusing on trying Argentinean and Australian wines for the past few years that I’ve totally neglected those from traditional powerhouse wine-producing countries such as Italy. In fact, I think it has been at least six months since I’ve had my last bottle of super Tuscan. I usually skip over the European sections at my local wine shop and go straight for … Continue reading Wines Organic, Cheap, and Young: Villa Teresa Veneto Merlot 2011

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Wines Organic And Young (and still cheap): Domaine Bousquet Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

I’ve decided to make more of an effort to try out organic wines and write about them. There are several reasons for this. First of all, organic wines have grown up from being niche products put out by niche producers to become a serious category of wine featured at liquor and wine stores frequented by the masses. Secondly, there seems to be much more interest … Continue reading Wines Organic And Young (and still cheap): Domaine Bousquet Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

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Wines Under $30: Yalumba Organic Shiraz 2011

  A lot of the top vintners at the most prestigious wineries in the world will tell you that organic wine is a gimmick used by inferior wineries to market subpar wine. They’ll tell you that it is impossible to create the complex aromas and deep flavours of great wines by utilizing only organic methods and materials in the grape-growing and wine-making process. Wine experts … Continue reading Wines Under $30: Yalumba Organic Shiraz 2011

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Downtown, Japanese, organic/healthy

Brown Rice Makes All The Difference

Shizen Ya – I’ve never been to any restaurant that purport to serve food made from mainly organic, sustainable, environmentally conscious, and “healthy” ingredients. More often than not, these restaurants are vegetarian/vegan places that serves tofu this, soy that, raw sprouts Y, wheat X, germ of some sort, lots of quinoa, or grass and hay (I think I’ve just offended half the local population). I … Continue reading Brown Rice Makes All The Difference

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