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Title: Indulge NYGI Tuesday Tastings. Now you get it: Fortified Wines
Location: Indulge Wine Room 708 N. Milwaukee Street Milwaukee WI 53202
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Description: Port, Sherry, Banuyls, Muscat Beaumes de Venise, Pineau des Charentes, Madeira and Marsala. What are these and how did they come to be? Explore fortified wines from Portugal to Sicily with Master Sommelier candidate Toni Johnson.

Cost: $20.00 per person

Call ahead for reservations:
414-390-9463
Start Time: 5:30
Date: November 3rd, 2009

MORIC Neckenmarkter Blaufrankisch 2005, Mittelburgenland Austria

FROM DAVID SCHILDKNECHT FOR ROBERT PARKER’S WINE ADVOCATE: The 2005 Blaufrankisch Neckenmarkter delivers aromas of blackberry, smoked meat, and walnut, making for a pleasantly bitter, rather Cabernet Franc-like cast. Juicy, faintly bitter and salty, with subtle tart black fruit and walnut oil on the palate, this clings with a tart, bitter-sweet cast and striking salinity. There will be plenty of rewards for anyone who takes this wine through its paces at the dinner table. And it may gain over a couple of years in bottle, but will, I suspect, be best drunk within 3-4 years.

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A huge pet peeve of mine is going to a restaurant and never being offered some kind of sparkling wine as an aperitif or with appetizers. It is just about the easiest way for a waiter of waitress to add a couple of drinks to a bill. I can’t believe how rare this is, even casual places can step it up and bring their bubble game to the table. Why not?

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