A wine story rightfully deserving its own screenplay has unfolded in the Cotes du Ventoux. Scripted by French wine bloggers leveraging the social web, then serially turbocharged by social media’s influence on traditional media, the Olivier B Winery has apparently been rescued from the edge of wine making extinction. Any film highlighting this southeastern Rhone wine producer’s story […]
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Alto Adige Wines: Enigmatic and Beautiful Italian Wine Region
Alto Adige: Part I Earlier this month I intersected a caravan of German speaking Italians visiting from their extreme Northern Italian wine producing region, Alto Adige (Ahhl-toe Ahh-deejay). I caught up with them in the midst of a three city US tour showcasing wines from their hometowns in Südtirol (the region is also known as […]
No Comment on Wine Freedom in H.R. 5034 Response From Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown
H.R. 5034, the Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness Act of 2010, is simmering in the House of Representatives and waiting to make its way out the House to a Senate vote. So, I contacted my State Senator, Scott P. Brown, with an appeal to consider the scary aspects of this legislation which would allow Massachusetts, and all other states, […]
An Afternoon With Alan Peirson and Lesley Warner-Peirson: Peirson Meyer and L’Angevin Wines
L’Angevin and Peirson Meyer wines are so consistently special, they can resolve the bias of even the most severe doubter that has bumped up against one too many bottles of mediocre, simple, and frankly bad California Chardonnay. If I had my own winery in Napa Valley, I would solicit Alan Peirson to manage my vineyards […]
Stop H.R. 5034 and a New Dark Age for Wine Consumers and Retailers
The very recent introduction of H.R. 5034 into the House of Representatives is no less a bad dream for wine drinkers and retailers than a resurrection of the Berlin Wall would be for East Germans or a rekindling of Mao’s Cultural Revolution might represent for China’s citizens. The bill essentially awards blanket validity to State laws, without […]
Advantage: Female Wine Drinkers
There is an inexorable connection between wine and good health which has been written about here. I have been working under the assumption that the benefits, primarily associated with the resveratrol compound , lacked gender discrimination and manifested in lower rates of cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, and other killer diseases for men and women alike. As a […]
Open Offer to Taste My (Malcolm's) 1982 Vieux Chateau Certan
I consider myself “wine fortunate”, acquiring wine and friends over the years that fuel hedonistic and intellectual wine passions. One of those friends is Malcolm. I don’t see Malcolm regularly, yet each year for the last 15 we manage to find opportunities to get really silly and drink ridiculously excellent wine together. It was great to see […]
Zen, Hot Dogs, and Albarino
Yes, as the post’s title reflects, there is wine involved. But this simple, value infused story of Willy completely transcends the bottle of Rias Baixas blended white varietals I presented to him a few mornings ago in our annual Christmas gift exchange (I always get his wife’s heavenly spiced papaya dish) on a beach we ritually retreat to near San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the end […]
Quality Wine as a Primary Path to Winery Profitability
Stuffed car trunks and airplane holds of newly discovered wine being escorted home from wine regions by pleased holiday tasters is a common scene. Souveniers are pawns serving our emotional construct and consumer culture. But when it comes to tasting room visits, it just might make more sense to settle for a few photos, t-shirts, and caps […]
Slurping Soba for Grace and Wine for Life
It was my first time. The sounds inside the small, ancient, wooden Kyoto noodle restaurant were deafening. The weather outside was 32C with 90% humidity. Inside were tables of men dressed in uniform grey salaryman suits and ties, sticks snatching clumps of chilled Soba, dipping once quickly in tsuyu sauce before bowing their heads over bamboo plates and viciously sucking the living buckwheat out of this ultimate […]