A Wine Tasting Travel Show!  The Wine Scout discovers wine tasting adventures along with great tasting wines. We’ll discuss wine trips including where to go, what to do; restaurants, hotels, wineries and vineyards, wine festivals and other local sights - all within a podcast. Explore, listen and get involved.
 

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  20: Bounty of the Hudson Festival in New York’s Hudson Valley
We taste the wines from the Hudson Valley region at the Bounty of the Hudson festival in 2006. We enjoy tastes and dishes from area restaurants, epicurean delights, farm fresh produce, and Live Music! Click here to access details for the 2007 12th Annual "Bounty of the Hudson" Food & Wine Festival on 7/28-29.
 
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21 : Vintage NY, Tasting class with Lenz
22 : Sake Tasting Party
 
The Wine Scout Blogs:

Name: Team  Blog
Location: New York
Topics: Wine Tasting
 
The Types of Wines (1/24/2008 1:41:00 AM)
The Types of Winesby H. G. Hartung P.E.Wines are roughly grouped into four classifications:1) naturally fermented or light or still wine (under 14% alcohol; excise tax limit),2) natural sparkling wine (over 14% alcohol with natural carbonation),3) fortified wine (up to 21% alcohol), and4) aromatized fortified wine.Light WinesNaturally fermented means that only yeast is added to the must (crushed grape juice) in the fermentation process which converts most of the grape sugar into alco...
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Making The Wine Scout:

Name: Patricia  Crowell
Location: New York
Topics: Get the Show On the Road
 
The Video is HERE! (1/24/2008 1:26:00 AM)
Enough talk, now there's a video to watch. We worked really hard to create a video concept that would give our audience ideas about where to go wine tasting and what else there is to do on those trips. I hope you feel inspired to try a new wine or two! We loved the Becker wines, the food and the ambiance of Texas on our trip to Fredericksburg.Our video is posted in several different places on the web. Watch it all over...YouTubeYahoo VideoMySpaceGoogle VideoRevverDaily MotionBlip.tvNo, I don't t...
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WineRecs:

Name: Anthony  Manson
Location: New York
Topics: Wine Recommendations
 
The Year in Review-TOP 10 List (1/1/2008 6:21:00 PM)
As I look back on 2007, I have enjoyed most of all two types of wine. The classic well aged Bordeaux's and the smaller botique wines from around the world. These two types of wine of course are very different, yet it means we are lucky these days to have so many great wines to choose from. Here are my top ten favorites of the year:1)La Fleur de Boiiard 2003 PomerolA true pomerol..rich earth with an aroma that is amazing2)2001 Chateau Haut-Brion, Pessac-LeognanA fantastic bottle of classic Bordea...
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Confessions of a Wine Obsessive:

Name: Christian  Botta
Location: New York
Topics: Tasting Notes & Wine Stories
 
The Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts - Part I (12/5/2007 5:45:00 AM)
It’s easy to find a great bottle of wine, but is it easy to find a great group of people to appreciate it with? The thought didn’t occur to me right away when I first became interested in wine. But naturally, almost as soon as I began to investigate the wine scene, I heard about all sorts of cool wine groups, drinking great wine and having a great, funny and sometimes depraved time of it. I thought, I definitely want a piece of this... My early attempts at forming a wine group met with mixed ...
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