Daily News: America’s Next Cocktail Capital, Roald Dahl’s Coveted Wine Collection

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Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere:

– As America’s wine culture matures, quality wine can be found in unexpected states from Idaho to Texas. 

– In Munchies Barnaby Tuttle of Teutonic Wines discusses his personal winemaking philosophy.

– 45 million-year-old shells beneath France’s Champagne region are believed to have influenced the local terroir.

– Food Republic expounds the merits of Italy’s Cerasuolo, a lesser known rosé version of Montepulciano d’Abruzzo.

–  Roald Dahl was an avid wine lover, amassing a collection that included 1,000 cases of highly coveted examples of 1982 Bordeaux.

– Finally, Thrillist pegs Detroit as America’s next great cocktail city.

[Photo: Flickr/Stewart Butterfield]