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On Wine Origins: I’m Napa Valley, and You’re Not!
One cool morning this April, I sat down for a hotel breakfast in Washington, D.C., with a visiting delegation from Napa Valley Vintners...
Platinum Award Winning Wines: The 20th Annual Critics Challenge International Wine Competition
Over this past weekend, judges gathered in San Diego for the 20th judging of the Critics Challenge, which was established by Robert...
The Lieux-Dits of Seneca Lake
It is late August, not yet prime picking time in the vineyards that ring Seneca Lake. Looking west from the lake’s eastern...
New & Old: An Evening with Biondi Santi
What happens in the life of any organism when its continuity is interrupted? Does it adapt, and, if so, what path will it take? That...
Ernst Loosen: Allegra, Adante and Fortissimo
“I love Riesling and Pinot Noir with some age,” Ernst Loosen says on the other side of our Zoom screen. It is early...
Italy’s Trebbiano: Ugly Duckling to Graceful Swan
“To make a fine Trebbiano was always a dream of mine,” says Luca Sanjust, the enthusiastic owner of Petrolo winery in...
The Two Petits Find a Home on the East Coast
What are the chances that a secondary Bordeaux grape, one which seldom gets any attention except for being a small percentage in a Medoc...
A Journey to Fennville: Exploring an Unknown AVA
Let’s start with a United States AVA trivia quiz (answers are at the end of the column): In which state are the following AVAs...
What I’ve Been Drinking Lately: Under $25 a bottle-and It’s Real White Burgundy!
Class is now back in session, so I propose to return to the topic at hand: Good white Burgundy that sells for under $25 a bottle...