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The remodeled Braddock Heights home features both front and rear entrances to the side stone patio, pond and gazebo. (Photo: Jennifer Walker)

Kitchen is the place to cook up good grades

Jackie Friedlander

With school starting again in September, the kitchen is the heart of the home for housework and homework alike. There’s room to spread out the study supplies on the table, ... more

Porches: Where the living's easy

Bill Lahay

Like it or not, kitchens, master suites and other “glamorous” rooms in American homes get the lion’s share of attention and resources, while other deserving, but unsung spaces languish in ... more

Foreclosed homes are roots of local growing business

Chuck Hagee

One man’s loss is another man’s gain, to paraphrase an old axiom. That statement rings particularly true for Reec Akuak, who has turned the recession into a business model for ... more

Townhouses stay in the black

Jackie Friedlander

Townhouses were the only category of homes for which sales increased during July in both the City of Alexandria and the Northern Virginia region as a whole. more

Home of the week

Jackie Friedlander

Mount Vernon home shows wow factor more

Home of the week

Jackie Friedlander

Highrise has spectacular summer scenery more

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Malbec and Me

Malbec is a red varietal wine I have customarily approached with caution. I've tended to view it as a ubiquitous, serviceable and affordable red, but rarely inspiring. The grape is a traditional Bordeaux blending variety ~ typically playing third or fourth fiddle in Bordeaux reds, if included at all; has long been produced as a single varietal wine in Cahors, a small, unsung winegrowing region in southwestern France; and occasionally appears in Meritage blends from California. Practically speaking, though, most of us know Malbec best as the signature red wine of Argentina, where the vines flourish in the shadow of the majestic Andes Mountains and whence the wine flows in burgeoning abundance.