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May 22, 2020Viewed: 420
“So when are you going to quit your day job and focus on wine?” Everyone from close friends to well-meaning strangers have asked me that question for years, and for the first time, I ...
May 20, 2020Viewed: 102
Hello, and welcome to my periodic dig through the samples pile. I’m pleased to bring you the latest installment of Vinography Unboxed, where I highlight some of the better bottles that have ...
May 17, 2020Viewed: 110
Terry Theise wrote a response to my slightly provocative piece on the the fact that food and wine pairing is junk science. He sent it to me before publishing it, and that resulted in a ...
April 29, 2020Viewed: 95
For those in the wine trade, one of the characteristics of Spring has long been the proliferation of wine tasting events. These events, which often have a public component as well, begin in February ...
April 14, 2020Viewed: 101
The other day I penned a bit of a screed, on a topic that I continually encounter in two forms: anxiety expressed to me directly by friends who are not wine geeks and a never-ending parade of books, ...
April 08, 2020Viewed: 107
When I speak to many wine drinkers, they often express a similar sentiment. They tell me that they really enjoy wine, but they don’t know much about it. With varying degrees of embarrassment or ...
April 02, 2020Viewed: 88
Like the endless stream of lousy paintings sold at garage sales, or the ceaseless arguments for why climate change isn’t real, the supposed principles and rules of food and wine pairing are ...
March 20, 2020Viewed: 96
We’re all going to be stuck at home for a while. That means we will need wine. And lots of it. For those of you who don’t have more than a couple of bottles squirreled away, that means ...
March 17, 2020Viewed: 90
America’s two most important winegrowing states are suffering serious over-supply while demand slackens. One of the most hotly anticipated press conferences in the wine world each year (if ever ...
March 10, 2020Viewed: 88
Anyone who doesn’t fall even just a little bit in love with Tuscany the first time they visit should probably be locked away from the world. There’s something magical about the place that ...
November 28, 2019Viewed: 90
We’re in a grateful mood here in California in general. The winter rains have finally begun to fall, mercifully marking the end of another fire season. Though harrowing as it was, and not without ...
October 16, 2019Viewed: 88
On 23 October, the Kincade Fire exploded to life on the hillsides above Geyserville in California’s Sonoma County, and quickly prompted the evacuation of that small town. Four days later, it had ...
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