Mudgee Wine Region
One of the post-excursions offered after the 2019 Wine Media Conference was a trip to visit the wineries in the Mudgee Region in New South Wales. Our group was made up of 19 wine writers on “a wine summer camp bus trip” .
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Wine Tasting Terroir
I have asserted for years that just as there is a terroir that effects the grapes used to make wine, there is a terroir of wine tasting as well.
Red Mountain AVA Part Two: On the Farm
Red Mountain AVA Part One: What was I thinking?
Young Guns of Mendocino County
Fetzer winery hosted a few of us wine bloggers at their Bonterra Vineyard as part of an excursion before the Wine Blogger Conference (WBC17), and allowed us to meet some of the wine makers from Mendocino County in an event called the Inner Mendo Odyssey Panel. We started with a tour of the Bonterra, […]
Let’s be Clear: Good Wines are Good Wines, Period.
I just finished re-reading an article entitled, “Let’s Be Clear: Bad Wines Are Bad Wines, Period”, written by Eric Asimov. If you don’t know, Eric is the wine critic for the New York Times. I had to re-read his article a couple of times to begin to understand what point, or rather points, he […]
Wine Traveler Necessities
I travel quite a bit, as a wine blogger and in my professional life as well. I have traveled all over the world. Wherever I travel, whether I’m driving or flying to get to my destination, when I get there, I’m having wine. Good wine, bad wine, red wine or white wine, with a goat […]
Biggest Concern, Climate Change or Bad Weather?
As a blogger about the wine industry, I pay attention to trends and stories in the news about the wine industry. One trend that is constantly in the news is climate change and how it will affect the wine growers and wineries. A quick Google search of climate change and wineries shows 47,200 results in […]
Science Fiction Meets Burgundy
I like science fiction movies and books. Many of the stories involve science ensuring man’s survival after technology ran amok and nearly killed off mankind due to some mad scientist. Spaceships sent to the far reaches of space with the last of mankind, to repopulate a new world, a futuristic Noah’s Ark. Often in these […]
Ava Winery – a Startup
What is a winery? It is defined as an establishment where wine is made, and wine is defined as an alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice. So can you make wine without grapes? Yes, says Ava Winery, a San Francisco startup who is looking to make a synthetic wine by combining water, flavor compounds, […]