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October 20, 2009Twitter's selling wine. Why(ne) not?
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August 14, 2009Minneapolis's Nokomis neighborhood's wine scene is coming up in the world.
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June 24, 2009Got a bajillion weddings this summer? France 44 has some bubbly gift recs.
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January 27, 2009Land of 10,000 wines? Not quite. But Surdyk's rec
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January 21, 2009 Winemakers are happy to have a drinker in the White House.
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January 20, 2009Looking for more bang for your buck in a bottle? Zipp's L
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January 13, 2009Raise a glass, reduce your impact. France 44 recommends five gr
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January 6, 2009These wines stack up, literally. Lowry Hill recommends five great
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December 30, 2008What will you be drinking New Year's Eve? Check out Ha
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December 12, 2008Wine taste. It's winter. We have to warm up any way we ca
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August 22, 2007Summer Road Work? Rotting Bridges? Maybe It's Time to Eat Closer to Home. Maybe a Place Like Café Levain.
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May 16, 2007Café 44, the new restaurant attached to the France 44 Liquor Store, has the biggest, cheapest wine selection in the history of the Upper Midwest
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April 4, 2007In which Dara seeks great Minnesota wine in all the wrong places, and finds it anyway
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February 14, 2007St. Paul's newest Italian spot dishes many delights, and a few disasters, so do you grade it on a curve?
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November 8, 2006Want to put your newfound wine smarts to the test? City Pages' guest taster issues his recommendatinos for bottles sure to please.
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November 8, 2006What's the wallaby on the label of that shiraz trying to tell you? What about the syrah label featuring a generic chateau? Dear Dara answers all your peskiest wine questions.
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November 8, 2006What's the wallaby on the label of that shiraz trying to tell you? What about the syrah label featuring a generic chateau? Dear Dara answers all your peskiest wine questions.
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October 18, 2006Is ordering wine in restaurants making you crazy? Dear Dara prescribes anti-psychotics.
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May 31, 2006Grocer-with-a-cult-following Trader Joe's will make half your dreams come true
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January 25, 2006Specialty wine shops each slice the universe of wine in a different way
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October 12, 2005Bright Pink Spanish Rosado Is Something You Can Buy Without Thinking. In 2005, It's All Good. No, Seriously.
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October 12, 2005Skip the Forest, Focus on a Few of the Most Typical Trees, and You May Finally Feel Comfortable in the Fabulous Jungle of Spanish Red Wines
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October 12, 2005If 40 distributors each work with between 30 and 200 chateaus, bodegas, collectives, estates, wineries, or what have you--how many separate bottlings are available in Minnesota?
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October 12, 2005Want to taste your way through another country? Local restaurants are a good first stop
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August 31, 2005The only place you'll find Schumacher's famous Czech-German cuisine today is twixt the mighty Midway and Ye Old Mill
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June 15, 2005Car-seat country scores a family-friendly wine bar with a serious education mission
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May 25, 2005Controversial documentary 'Mondovino' just might drive you to drink
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April 6, 2005Party your way to an unshakable understanding of what "dry" wine really is
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March 16, 2005Light- or dark-roast? Far more intriguing choices--like booze!--await at a new generation of coffeehouses.
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December 22, 2004A foodie's guide to last-minute gifts to make your chowhound smile
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July 14, 2004One more reason to toast: Half-price wine nights have caught on all over the Twin Cities
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June 23, 2004Mission American Kitchen gives the people what they want, from upscale potato chips to ribs and root beer floats
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March 24, 2004A reader worries that the sale of wine in grocery stores will kill funky Mom-'n'-Pop shops, but Dara disagrees
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October 22, 2003Dear Dara explains why you can't always get what you want
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March 26, 2003Dear Dara explains why you can't always get what you want
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January 22, 2003Dear Dara explains why you can't always get what you want
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July 10, 2002Dear Dara explains why you can't always get what you want
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July 10, 2002Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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January 23, 2002Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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December 26, 2001Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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December 19, 2001Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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December 12, 2001Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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December 5, 2001Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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November 14, 2001Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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November 14, 2001Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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September 26, 2001Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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September 19, 2001Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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February 28, 2001Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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November 15, 2000Pairings perhaps too explosive for the general public
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