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Platinum Award Winning Wines: The 20th Annual Critics Challenge International Wine Competition

by Michael Franz | Jul 6, 2023

Over this past weekend, judges gathered in San Diego for the 20th judging of the Critics Challenge, which was established by Robert...

by Roger Morris | Jul 6, 2023

It is late August, not yet prime picking time in the vineyards that ring Seneca Lake. Looking west from the lake’s eastern...

by Roger Morris | Jul 6, 2023

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...

by Roger Morris | Jul 6, 2023

“I love Riesling and Pinot Noir with some age,” Ernst Loosen says on the other side of our Zoom screen. It is early...

by Roger Morris | Jul 6, 2023

“To make a fine Trebbiano was always a dream of mine,” says Luca Sanjust, the enthusiastic owner of Petrolo winery in...

by Roger Morris | Jul 6, 2023

What are the chances that a secondary Bordeaux grape, one which seldom gets any attention except for being a small percentage in a Medoc...

by Wayne Belding | Jun 25, 2023

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...

by John Anderson | Jun 21, 2023

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...

by Michael Apstein | Jun 15, 2023

Memorial Day means summer, which, of course to some people means rosé. But for me it means light to mid-weight white wines...