The Mountains are Calling: A Taste of Foradori Wines
Trentino's Foradori wines are highly sought after: 70% of them are exported to 50 different countries.
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Wine is Bottled Poetry
And sometimes, wine can be anything but bottled poetry, more like a bad nursery rhyme, a twisted limerick or even blank verse. But at its best, it is indeed just that – pure poetry. In this blog, I will attempt to avoid sounding like a bad nursery rhyme, but hope that any poetry I find in the bottle will find some expression on this blog.
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- Nov 29, 2022
The Mountains are Calling and I Must Go: Foradori Wines
From the first time I heard about Northern Italy’s Foradori winery, I wanted to visit. The dramatic background of the Dolomites..
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- Sep 22, 2022
Southern Oregon in Seven Fabulous Wine and Food Pairings (plus three pairing don’ts)
Last year, the annual Wine Media Conference took me to Southern Oregon, a wine region often overlooked
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- Sep 20, 2022
Food and Wine Pairing: Six Basic Principles to Build Confidence
One of my favorite things to teach my Wine and Spirit Educational Trust students is wine and food pairing, and I especially appreciate the s
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- Aug 23, 2022
From Nun to Nirvana: Putting the Sweet Back on Your Wine List!
PART THREE : GETTING STARTED - Sweet Wine Secrets of Australia and Bordeaux
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- Jul 3, 2022
From Nun to Nirvana: Putting the Sweet Back on Your Wine List!
PART TWO: A Tale of Beauty and the Beast - How Sweet Wine Gets Sweet
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- Jun 17, 2022
From Nun to Nirvana: Dispelling Sweet Wine Myths and Putting the Sweet Back on Your Wine List!
What makes me sad about sweet wine……the sins of a nun and other stories
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- Jan 31, 2022
The Garagiste Festival: The Wine World's Launching Pad & Best Festival - Returns to Solvang
A little under eleven years ago I was approached by Stewart McLennan and Doug Minnick about an idea they had
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- Sep 15, 2020
Riverina Reconsidered Part Two: Small Producers Finding the Sunlight in the Shadow of Giants
Just before magic hour, as the blast of the sun had eased a bit, we headed out to Yarran winery in Yenda, about fifteen minutes from Griffit
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- Sep 10, 2020
Riverina Reconsidered Part One: Small Producers Finding the Sunlight in the Shadow of Giants
Small Producers Finding the Sunlight in the Shadow of Giants: Griffith’s Small Town Charm and Mino & Co It took an hour and a half to fly...
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- Sep 1, 2020
The Riverina Reconsidered
Could The Riverina be THE New Offbeat Wine Region to Visit in Australia?
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- Oct 4, 2019
From Dust to Density: The Powerful Allure of Red Mountain Wines (part two)
One could not find a more enthusiastic evangelist for Red Mountain than JJ Williams, grandson of Kiona’s founder and a millennial...
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- Sep 5, 2019
From Dust to Density: The Powerful Allure of Red Mountain Wines (part one)
The adventurer in me began to emerge – little did I know that that starkness was a preview of the kind of landscape we were headed for.
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- Jan 3, 2019
Tannat: The Dark Horse of the Wine World finds Light in Uruguay…and Paso Robles!
The Southwest of France is one of the most interesting and under-appreciated wine regions in France.
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- Sep 1, 2015
Macvin! Macvunderful! A wine that stands up to the heat
A surprising encounter with The Jura and one of its signature wines
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- Oct 1, 2014
Tasting Like a Pro: What’s the Point? – from The Garagiste Festival
In the documentary Somm, that phrase is used as an aroma descriptor for a wine by one of the Master Sommelier candidates. Really?
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- Sep 1, 2014
Bubbles to You!
“Bubbles to You!” has long been one of my mother’s favorite expletives. It must be a Brit thing or a Welsh thing.
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- Aug 1, 2014
White is the New Red
“White wine is red wine, just made a different way”
I admit it. I was a red wine bigot.
For many years.
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- Jul 18, 2014
Bedford Pinot Noir 2008 Arroye Grande Valley
We were looking for any way to procrastinate our re-entry into LA, so when the sign for Los Alamos appeared, we couldn’t resist
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