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Presented by Dr Andreas Emmanouel -- doctor in viticulture and oenology, president of the Cyprus Oenophile Club, president of the Cyprus Wine Experts Committee and lecturer at the Limassol Institute of Technology -- the series is aimed at those who already known quite a bit about the nectar of the gods, and will focus on the natural cycle of the vine, local varieties and how to taste wine in the proper manner.

According to NPR, archaeologists from George Washington University have been excavating an ancient Canaanite palace in Karni, now in ruins, for the past eight years, and this oenophile's paradise is their latest find.

I have stated before that one of the worst things an oenophile can face is a blind tasting.

This is an approach with which the Apollo writer also felt comfortable, remarking that even if a critic 'trots swiftly round an exhibition as did Diderot, he will return and look at those works which have caught his fancy; and, like the wine-taster, he will judge the quality by a sip alone.' One suspects the oenophile analogy would not receive much approval from today's art critics, nor most likely would the writer's quoting from Joshua Reynolds' The Idea of Beauty.

The winery has a state-of-the-art processing unit that uses gravity to process grapes and a terrace overlooking the hills to welcome oenophile tourists.

"Stanley Tucci is exactly the right person--he's well known, likeable and an oenophile." The show is not just about wine, she added, but "about the world of entertaining.

Just before jetting off to Gay Days at Disney World, the longtime oenophile gave us his favorite picks for summer sipping.

Oenophile Bishop Ralph Spence, of the Hamilton, Ont.-based diocese of Niagara, has made support of the Niagara peninsula's wineries a hallmark of his tenure.

After being asked to leave the premises, the prominent North Down member rounded up an active service unit which proceeded to plant a box of empty Lambrini and Bacardi Breezer bottles outside the Stranmillis activist's front door, thereby exposing him to the contempt and ridicule of his oenophile neighbours.

The poor soul conscripted was Ralph Steadman, the brilliant English editorial cartoonist and accomplished oenophile. The way Hunter later told me the story, Steadman arrived on the Saturday morning of the Derby dazed and jet-lagged, to be picked up by Hunter in a rented red convertible.

Mauss: This Beaujolais Nouveau is "vin de merde." Pardon our French, but that translates into, well, let's just say it rhymes with what an oenophile does at a tasting: spit.

He was a celebrated oenophile and gourmet, and although I can't pretend to know a lot about those disciplines, I love to eat and drink--if we just didn't have to discuss his music.

(33) Max said that Alice is an "oenophile", but I'm not sure what that means.

'I was pleased to discover a wonderful chenin blanc there, absolutely fantastic, which they serve chilled with a first-class bread stick,' says Dale, a serious oenophile and resident of Sonoma County, California, one of the finest wine regions in the world.

Maximillian Potter was not an oenophile, or even a wine drinker, when he went to Burgundy for Vanity Fair to cover the attempted poisoning of vines at the globally venerated vineyards of the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti in a precious area of Burgundy called Le Cote D'Or.