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• Trophy Wine In defense of drinking expensively.
  Mike Steinberger Dec. 31, 2003
  
• Le Divorce How wine and food have gone their separate ways.
  Mike Steinberger Dec. 15, 2003
  
• Grape Pretender How do you sweet-talk a winemaker into giving up the goods?
  Mike Steinberger Oct. 31, 2003
  
• Sour Grapes Why is there no such thing as a good, low-priced California wine?
  Mike Steinberger Sept. 26, 2003
  
• Wine for Tightwads Cheap wine you can actually drink.
  Mike Steinberger July 22, 2003
  
• Grape Deceptions Why most wine collectors are also compulsive liars.
  Mike Steinberger May 23, 2003
  
• The Burgundy Brawl Wines that can start a fight.
  Mike Steinberger April 4, 2003
  
• The Wines of War They're not as bitter as you'd think.
  Mike Steinberger Feb. 7, 2003