Wine dinner with Kenny Likitprakong Wednesday, Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m. Rue Cler 401 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham Cost: $55; reservations: 682-8844 Wine dinner Thursday, Feb. 20, 6:30 p.m. Bida Manda, 222 S. Blount St., Raleigh 919-829-9999 $60 Wine pouring Saturday, Feb. 22, 3–5 p.m. Cave Taureau 339 W. Main St., Durham, 919-908-9877 Kenny Likitprakong, […]
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“Where you guys going?”: UNC men’s basketball beats Maryland
DEAN E. SMITH CENTER/CHAPEL HILL—I spent some time yesterday morning reading about Len Bias, the most (in)famous player in the history of Maryland basketball. I was thinking about Lefty Driesell, and Buck Williams, and Albert King, and Walt “The Wizard” Williams, and if you don’t know who those people are you’re helping to prove a […]
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“Where you guys going?”: UNC Mens Basketball Beats Maryland
I spent some time yesterday morning reading about Len Bias, the most (in)famous player in the history of Maryland basketball. I was thinking about Lefty Driesell, and Buck Williams, and Albert King, and Walt “The Wizard” Williams, and if you don’t know who those people are you’re helping to prove a point massing here and […]
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ABC: UNC loses to Miami, and loses face
DEAN E. SMITH CENTER/ CHAPEL HILL—”People have taken their chances and beaten up on us for quite a while, but we’re gonna survive this. I’m really proud of my kids.” That sounds like the sort of thing UNC head basketball head coach Roy Williams could have been expected to say after his team lost, glumly […]
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Gewürztraminer: It’s in your face
Gewürztraminer: The grape’s name is strange, the wine is strange and so is its presence. It’s somewhat scarce, too, but it’s hardly obscure. Most respectable wine shops and restaurant have a bottle. Yet no one quite knows what to do with gewürztraminer. Or it sometimes seems everyone does, but there are so many divergent suggestions […]
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Driver, driver, driver, driver, driver, driver, driver, driver: notes on UNC Mens’ Basketball losing at home to Texas
DEAN E. SMITH CENTER/ CHAPEL HILL—The Tar Heels continued their topsy-turvitude last night, losing at home to unranked Texas, which won’t be unranked anymore. The 10-1 Longhorns, kind of a discount Kentucky in many ways, just needed a win over a respected program to prove their worth. After the game, their head coach, Rick Barnes, […]
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Where are the real Tar Heels?
UNC vs. Kentucky Saturday, Dec. 14 5:15 p.m., ESPN Chapel Hill Is Roy Williams finished? Carolina fans might have asked that question after their team recently lost a pair of games to unranked teams. In each loss, one at home, a single struggle essentially cost them the game. They held UAB-Birmingham to just 31 percent […]
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What to pair with dessert wines
Bourbon balls at parties, pie after holiday meals, candy in Christmas stockings: Dessert is everywhere during the holidays. In this season of giving and kindness, the first kindness you can give your body is a break from all that sugar, which is punishment wrapped as pleasure. But I like dessert, you protest. Fine. Drink it […]
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American wine for an American holiday
Thanksgiving approaches, and the wine anxiety begins. Relax! What matters is the company around the table, not the wine on it. Choose something unassuming, juicy and light; the stuffing and yams are heavy enough. Recently, some local wine professionals convened for a tasting, and they suggested cru Beaujolais, Austrian zweigelt and even old Rioja. Good […]
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Wine, bourbon and beer at Euphoria festival
Wine With Soul Does wine have to be wine? The Nelson brothers’ great-great-great grandfather founded Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery in the 1870s. In its 19th-century heyday, Green Brier out-produced Jack Daniel’s nearly 10 bottles to one. Shut down by Tennessee’s prohibition in 1909, the distillery lay dormant until Nelson’s descendants happened on it by accident […]
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