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Local Wine Connoisseurs Pick Their Go-To Wine Selections from 2023
A quick housekeeping note: We’re changing! Kara is stepping down from the column to travel through U.S. wine regions for the next year, and Jerry is taking over as your trusty Charlotte wine correspondent. This has been a great year and we hope you’ve enjoyed reading our collaborative wine stories…
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A Fall Guide to White Wine: Autumnal Alternatives to Reds
This month on the docket, we’re speaking autumn into existence. With the incoming cold weather, it’s only natural that everyone has red wine on the brain. Red wine season is exciting, so please indulge your wintry heart, but there are also plenty of white and sparkling wines that pair perfectly…
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How to Venture Out of Your Pinot Grigio Bubble
There are around 4,000 types of wine grapes in the world, and likely many more that we haven’t identified. How many can you name? Cabernet sauvignon, sauvignon blanc, chardonnay, pinot grigio … how many have you had? As lovers of wine, we want to try them all, to be honest.…
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Searching for Discount Wine at Three Charlotte Markets
It’s the dog days of summer; the heat advisory has been extended, Jerry has no A/C, and Kara’s lover just moved across the country. This calls for discount-bin wine. So, what puts you in a discount-wine state of mind? Are you thrifty by nature or is your search for value…
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A Guide to Matching Wine and Chips for Snacktime
Our research for this month’s column involved wandering around the snack section of Common Market in Plaza Midwood, loading up with chips and rinds to our heart’s content, then testing our theory that there’s a chip for every wine. While we still suspect this to be correct, what we’ve discovered…
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How to Shop for Wine as a Beer Lover
A wine lush and a beer lover walk into a bar. How does this joke end? We think it could end with the beer lover sabering a bottle of Champagne while the wine lover does a keg stand: A Nora Roberts romance if there ever was one. We think Roberts…
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What Grapes Make Rosé Wine?
Question for Charlotte wine drinkers: Are you of the opinion that rosé is dainty? More metaphorically worded, do you see this beverage as a damsel in distress, in need of a fainting couch and smelling salts? More technical follow up: Did you know that it takes a red grape, sometimes…
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JK Wine: Confessions of a Grüner
Don’t be afraid to enunciate, especially when you have Austrian wine in front of you. Sound it out, let your freak flag fly, and be willing to sound like a fool in the name of tasting great wine. Pair it with Austrian punk rock to get you in the mood,…
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JK Wine: Women in Wine Are Hard to Find
It’s Women’s History Month and we had to work a little harder than we’d like to admit to find a Charlotte wine bar owned solely by a woman. The good news is that our quest led us to a little gem in Dilworth called Mere’s, where Meredith herself took us…
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JK Wine: Pairing with Headscratchers at Cellar Distributing
We recently attended a trade show at the Cellar Distributing warehouse in southwest Charlotte, where we encountered two “headscratchers.” Headscratchers, as we define them, are wines that are so curious and interesting that all the other wines (and people) in the room dissipate. They’re the wines that stick with you…
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JK Wine: Giving Merlot the Second Chance it Deserves
Editor’s Note: Kara Daly is a wine writer and educator who hosts private wine tastings for Charlotte residents. Jerry Chandler is a beverage program consultant for local restaurants by day and a wine bartender by night. JK Wine is the duo’s new Queen City Nerve column, in which they’ll seek…
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