DAN BERGER
Department: Lifestyle features/entertainment
Phone: 707-528-9466
Email: danberger@rocketmail.com
Beat/Position: Wine columnist
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BERGER: Reds, whites aged just right
Published May 15, 2013
Many wine collectors are dedicated to the proposition that the wines they buy will improve in the bottle.
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BERGER: Sweet wines for summer
Published May 8, 2013
From the end of Prohibition nearly 80 years ago (December 1933) until 1966 (the year Robert Mondavi opened his winery), more sweet wine was consumed in the United States than dry.
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BERGER: Good vintages for spring
Published April 23, 2013
As North American soils begin to warm, people all over the country rediscover porches, patios, and backyards, and that calls for wines that offer the freshness of the spring air.
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BERGER: Grgich on wine, life
Published April 17, 2013
Miljenko Grgich's life in wine is an object lesson in courageous dedication to a philosophy, supported by empirical evidence, that some wines need no tinkering, and that adhering to old paradigms can create greatness.
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BERGER: 1 case, 12 slightly different wines
Published April 10, 2013
The syrah was sensational. I bought a case. A couple of weeks later I opened a bottle. It was pretty good. But not sensational.
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North Coast Wine Challenge judges announced
Published April 3, 2013
The tentative list of judges has been announced for the new North Coast Wine Challenge wine competition, sponsored by The Press Democrat.
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BERGER: Cheese with that wine? Here's how
Published March 27, 2013
American cheese, that stuff they put on fast-food burgers, isn't really cheese, in my book. Nor are most commercial olive oils very olive-y, most commercial butter very tasty, or most sourdough bread very sour.
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BERGER: Alcohol levels and age of tasters
Published March 20, 2013
The comment was unsolicited and surprised me by its bluntness -- and notably because it came from a respected Sonoma County winemaker who makes a well-regarded Cabernet Sauvignon.
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BERGER: Women vital to wine biz
Published March 13, 2013
We were traveling in Italy's Tuscan district a decade ago and my wife, Juliann, asked how many women were wine makers in Italy.
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BERGER: Don't fall for bad wine advice
Published February 27, 2013
'Red wine with meat' and 'white wine with fish' were two food/wine pairing rules that were long ago debunked.
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BERGER: Scare stories about wine
Published February 20, 2013
It's hard to hear, yet again, about how even moderate amounts of alcohol can kill.
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BERGER: N.Y. wines deserve recognition
Published February 13, 2013
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - About 20 years ago, when I began to discover the growing excellence of many New York wines, what came to mind were chickens and eggs, or horses and carts.
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BERGER: Toast to Canadian wines
Published January 30, 2013
Readers of wine columns rarely ask much of wine columnists, but one stern request has become my Basic Rule No. 1: Please don't recommend wines that we cannot get.
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BERGER: The many lives of Chianti
Published January 23, 2013
I love Chianti, especially with garlicky, tomato-y pasta dishes, so when I ordered that at a café the other day, I also ordered a bottle of Chianti.There was nothing technically wrong with it except that it didn't taste like Chianti.
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BERGER: Discover Coppola wines
Published January 16, 2013
There is no question in the minds of many Americans that Napa Valley is the country's most important wine area. It has the panache (grand wineries), makes the nation's most recognized red wine (cabernet sauvignon), and has for a long time been seen...