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Icewine Guy Meets Svetlanas and The Soul of Abkhazia

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Jul 29
I marvel that in the former Soviet Union there are a very large number of babies born and named Svetlana.   […]
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Icewine’s Butterfly Effect

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Jul 23
I met Fred Weir at the Canadian Embassy Icewine tasting in Moscow in June.  Fred is a fellow Canadian who […]
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Icewine Tasting at the United Nations Part 2

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Jul 16
Part 1 left off with Max, Teddy, the Macedonian and I having dinner in a seaside cafe in Sukhumi. During […]
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Icewine Tasting at the United Nations Part 1

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Jul 16
Max is taking me for a tour of the main Sukhumi waterfront.  For me this means a stroll along a […]
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As Cool As Bond and Nerdy too: Icewine Knowledge

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Jul 14
In 1954 James Bond ordered the first ‘ultra cool martini’ by uttering these words: “A dry martini,” he said. “One. […]
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Sleepless in Sukhumi

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Jul 11
“The morning shadows are long and the waterfront park is slowly filling with locals, chatting over Turkish coffee and beginning […]
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Russian Borders, Edita, and Lessons from India

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Jul 9
The flight to Sochi was uneventful, other than I could speak English with nobody. The regional airline, S7 gave a […]
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Anna

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Jul 9
I am not here to sell Icewine. I am here to drink in this place called Abkhazia. It is my […]
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Off the Russian Icewine Trail: Abkhazia

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Jul 9
Abkhazia is a difficult place to write about, but I have to describe Abkhazia before I can write about some […]
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Confessions of an Icewine Salesman in Moscow

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Jul 4
Notes from Moscow Day 5. The confusion continues. Little things like two golden arches under “Макдоналдс” give me an anchor […]
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