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Wine is food, right?  So today’s Foodie Friday post is on a wine theme.  I don’t profess to know much about really good wine but I do know enough to recognize when a wine is too young to drink.  You can taste the tannins, the stuff from the stems and seeds of the grapes, which are bitter but which mellow over time.  In fact, I’ve always thought that if a wine has the characteristics of being really good (nose, body, etc.) that noticeable tannins are a good thing – it means the wine is only going to get better.  That’s a wine you want to hang on to as it gets older.  Why do I bring that up? Continue reading →