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“I-Don’t-Really-Drink-Wine” People: This is For YOU

Kimberly Houston | August 26, 2010

Marenco Pineto Brachetto D’Acqui 2009

Today I’m going to talk about a concept called “gateway wine.”  (I’m borrowing the term from my friend Benito over at Benito’s Wine Reviews.)  A gateway wine is, as Benito says, “a wine that won’t scare away newbies.”
I think of this category of wines as “baby steps” for folks do say [...]