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Bob's Blog #14 We Smell Wine with our Tongue! We Taste Wine with our Nose!
Yes, that is true, kinda, more or less. Every now and then I am compelled, as a requirement of our articles of incorporation, to write...
Robert Dolci
Sep 104 min read
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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...
Robert Dolci
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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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...
Robert Dolci
Aug 17, 20223 min read
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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...
Robert Dolci
Nov 22, 20214 min read
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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...
Robert Dolci
Aug 18, 20213 min read
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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...
Robert Dolci
Mar 7, 20215 min read
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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...
Robert Dolci
Aug 9, 20204 min read
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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...
Bob Dolci
Feb 21, 20203 min read
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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...
Bob Dolci
Feb 21, 20202 min read
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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...
Bob Dolci
Nov 3, 20194 min read
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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...
Bob Dolci
Jun 10, 20192 min read
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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....
Bob Dolci
Jun 10, 20193 min read
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