Bob's Blog #11 Can You Crush Grapes with Dirty Feet?
As you know, several of our members have been attempting to make wine from grape juice concentrate. The kits come with ingredients and...
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Robert Dolci
- Aug 17, 2022
- 3 min
Bob's Blog #10 "Corked Wine"- Everything You Didn't Need To Know
Recently I went to dinner with some friends. They ordered a decent bottle of red wine. The waiter offered the cork and poured a small...
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Robert Dolci
- Nov 22, 2021
- 4 min
Bob's Blog #9 Stuff NRGV&WS Members Should Know
As many of you know our last NRGV&WS gathering was hosted by the Abiquiu Inn with wine generously provided by Lescombes Family Vineyards...
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Robert Dolci
- Aug 18, 2021
- 3 min
Bob's Blog #8: Still Trying
Guess what? Wendy and I just bottled 50 bottles of wine that we made of which 27 were white and 23 were red. Surprisingly, they’re not...
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Robert Dolci
- Mar 7, 2021
- 5 min
Bob's Blog #7: Wine & War -The Climate Change Battle
The following is an email that I sent out to the members of the Norther Rio Grande Chapter of the New Mexico Vine and Wine Society. The...
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Robert Dolci
- Aug 9, 2020
- 4 min
Bob's Blog #6 -A Californian’s Perspective on the History of New Mexico Wines
Most of you that are members of the Northern Rio Grande Chapter of New Mexico’s Vine and Wine Society know that I spent most of my adult...
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Bob Dolci
- Feb 21, 2020
- 3 min
Bob's Blog #5 - My Approach to Judging Wine
So, I’ve been giving considerable thought to our February wine tasting event. I choose to limit the tasting to two wines mostly because I...
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Bob Dolci
- Feb 21, 2020
- 2 min
Bob's Blog #4- Still Clueless but Finally Bottled the Amarone
In February 2020 Wendy and I were finally able to bottle the Amarone Classico wine that we started in April 2019. Approximately 10 months...
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Bob Dolci
- Nov 3, 2019
- 4 min
Bob's Blog #3 - Beer or Wine?
Recently I’ve been pondering the difference between wine drinkers and beer drinkers. Just so that we’re all on the same page, beer...
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Bob Dolci
- Jun 10, 2019
- 2 min
Bob's Blog #1 - Clueless
As many of you know, Wendy and I are in the process of making red wine from a NRGV&WS purchased wine kit. It’s an “Italian Amarone...
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Bob Dolci
- Jun 10, 2019
- 3 min
Bob's Blog #2 - Mostly About Wine Bottles
Let’s have a one-sided conversation about wine bottles. Not that there is anything that is even remotely interesting about wine bottles....
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