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https://www.redwineplease.com/wines-of-marchesi-de-frescobaldi-tasting-thursday-october-29th-at-gasbarros-on-federal-hill/ 
Mark Gasbarro is hosting another outstanding tasting this coming Thursday night at Gasbarro’s Wines on Federal Hill in Providence, RI. This is a great opportunity to sample a world class lineup of Italian wines from a highly respected producer. You can view the details online at http://www.gasbarros.com/pages/the-wines-of-marchesi-de-frescobaldi. Info on the wines is below. The tasting
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https://www.redwineplease.com/a-look-at-the-2005-chateau-gloria/ 
Let’s take a little trip to Saint Julien, on the Left Bank of Bordeaux, to see how the 2005 Chateau Gloria is holding up. Saint Julien is home to many a top notch Chateau, including names like Ducru Beaucaillou, Gruaud Larose, Leoville Barton, Leoville Poyferre and Leoville Las Cases. This is Cabernet Sauvignon country, and
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https://www.redwineplease.com/a-look-at-the-2015-whale-event-in-new-bedford-ma/ 
We had a chance to attend this year’s edition of WHALE the first Friday in October, an event which supports the Waterfront Historic Area LeaguE. WHALE is involved with historic preservation in New Bedford, and our hope was they had maintained the caliber of the event we enjoyed very much last year. They have. This
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https://www.redwineplease.com/top-ten-white-wines-from-the-2015-newport-mansions-wine-and-food-festival/ 
With the list of Top Reds out (read it here) it is now time for the whites, which deserve equal billing to the reds but never seem to quite get it on our blog. We’ll try and fix that a bit. Once again these are only our opinions and yours may differ. Prices are suggested
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https://www.redwineplease.com/top-twelve-red-wines-from-the-2015-newport-mansions-wine-and-food-festival/ 
The 2015 Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival is sadly behind us, and it was another great weekend. You can read a brief recap by clicking here. In this blog we’ll examine the red wines from the event. There were many great ones, a lot of good ones and a few that weren’t so good.
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https://www.redwineplease.com/quick-look-at-the-2015-newport-mansions-wine-and-food-festival/ 
This past weekend saw the 10th Anniversary edition of the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival unfold at various venues in Newport, RI. We managed to get in the seminars and the Grand Tastings, and can happily report that it remains a preeminent wine and food event, matching quality with quantity in a spectacular setting.
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https://www.redwineplease.com/review-of-taste-for-a-cause-2015/ 
This past Thursday Mark Gasbarro hosted his Taste for a Cause wine tasting, once again raising money for the Program in Women’s Oncology at Women & Infants Hospital. It was a beautiful early Fall evening at the Aldrich Mansion in Warwick, R.I. There was food, there was wine and it was once again a grand
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https://www.redwineplease.com/trip-to-goriska-brda-slovenia-part-2-history-nature-the-capital-and-a-little-more-grappa/ 
Here we continue with our report on the recent trip to Slovenia and the Vinska Klet Goriška Brda Winery. Good things just kept happening.
Sunday, or day three, was all about history, and this region has plenty of it. WWI brought long, bitter and fierce fighting to this region, as the mountains were won and
Continue reading Trip to Goriška Brda, Slovenia Part 2: History, Nature, the Capital and a Little More Grappa
https://www.redwineplease.com/trip-to-goriska-brda-slovenia-part-1-wine-food-great-people-and-a-little-grappa/ 
This is a review of a recent trip to the Goriška Brda area of Slovenia, and in particular the Vinska Klet Goriška Brda Winery, who hosted eight representatives from their U.S. distributors as well as myself. Slovenia was an unknown to me and almost everyone I talked to beforehand. Most
A beautiful place!
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https://www.redwineplease.com/a-bottle-to-remember-forever/ 
I recently had the good fortune to tag along on a distributor trip to the Vinska Klet Goriska Brda winery in the Brda region of Slovenia, just over the eastern Italian border. This is a beautiful wine country of hills, valleys and terraced vineyards, reminding me in some spots of the hills of Barolo and
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