Welcoming Miranda Franco to Wine Review Online
Please join me in welcoming Miranda Franco, who joins WRO this week as a regular wine reviewer. Miranda has many...
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Michael Franz
A Promising New Player in the Walla Walla AVA: Echolands Winery
New wineries get established pretty regularly in the New World, but I’m much less regular about actually reading the press...
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Insanely Delicious Pinots from…Germany
If the current state of the world has you filled with foreboding, you could chalk up the arrival of fabulous...
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Insanely Delicious Pinots from…Germany
If the current state of the world has you filled with foreboding, you could chalk up the arrival of fabulous...
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Best Idea in Recent Memory: Roberto Conterno’s Sensory Wine Glass, with a Major Charitable Contribution Included
I’ve tasted with hundreds of different glasses over the course of 25+ years as a wine reviewer, so a new...
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Battle Tested, Budget Friendly Wines for 2020
Wine Review Online reader Mike McGowan recently sent me a nice note indicating that he’d benefitted from a column I...
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Breathtakingly Beautiful Barolo: The 2016 Vintage
I started writing about wine more than 25 years ago for The Washington Post, and over this span I have...
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Michael Franz’s Wine Producer of the year: Boekenhoutskloof
What could be better than this? A stunningly beautiful winery that makes relatively small quantities (8,333 cases) of fabulous, immaculately...
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Michael Franz’s Best Wine Gadget of 2019: The Aermate
This is an odd blog posting for me, as I believe that almost all wine gadgets are almost entirely ridiculous. ...
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Michael Franz’s 2019 Wine of the Year: Vietti Barolo Ravera 2015
Writing this on the day after Thanksgiving, I’m deeply thankful for all of the wonderful wines I was fortunate to...
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