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Do “Zombie Wineries” Exist? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
I Googled the term (using both spellings, “zomby” and “zombie”) and came up empty-handed, but I’m hearing it bandied about more and more. It refers to wineries that are in dead every respect, exce...
Cheers to the American Wine Consumer Coaltion 23 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
It may be somewhat brash for Tom Wark to call his new group the American Wine Consumer Coalition (AWCC) and make the claim that it “is the only national advocacy group that works to advance the int...
With Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom 22 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
Having lunch with Gavin Newsom yesterday put me in a nostalgic mood. Actually, it doesn’t take a lot these days [daze?] for me to take a little trip down memory lane, because I have a lot of memori...
Did you hear the news about The Hosemaster? 21 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
I was shocked, and saddened–immensely so, almost to the point of grief (except that I didn’t feel anything remotely resembling grief, just a kind of emptiness, like the inside of an empty wine bott...
Ten Napa Valley wineries that should be better known 20 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
It happens all the time in wine: famous wineries overshadow the less famous. Bordeaux set the pattern: So luminous is the glare of the most celebrated Classified Growths that some perfectly fine ch...
The California style is better with our modern, rich foods 19 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
For some reason I bookmarked this Decanter “tease” for an article two years ago (the full article requires a subscription), then forgot all about it until this past weekend, when I was cleaning out...
Have a nice weekend 16 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
Steve isn’t feeling well today and is taking the day off. Back on Monday!
An inconvenient truth about Pinot Noir 15 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
Critical attitudes toward California Pinot Noir have varied over the decades. When I first started paying attention to wine, the belief was just becoming entrenched that warmer regions, especially ...
At “Wines of Danger,” some gems 14 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
Carlos Danger didn’t show up, but that was probably a good thing, for we could concentrate on the task at hand: tasting wine, at this trade and media “Wines of Danger” tasting, held Monday at San F...
The “debate” over the usefulness of tasting notes is the biggest non-issue in the wine industry 13 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
My Tasting Director at Wine Enthusiast, Lauren Buzzeo, who has a hard job but carries it off with aplomb, sent us reviewers a link to this article yesterday. It’s a defense of tasting notes by a Wa...
