Rich Cook, Author at Wine Review Online

Smith-Madrone: Fifty Years On, Cultivating Beauty

by Rich Cook | August 26, 2021

Cultivation: 1. The act of preparing and working on land in order to raise crops. 2. To promote or improve...

by Rich Cook | August 18, 2021

I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to get a little stir crazy. Doing nothing but working from home,...

by Rich Cook | June 24, 2021

Back in October, in the middle of the quarantine, I ended a column with the words, “I’m ready for 2020...

by Rich Cook | June 16, 2021

I count myself fortunate to have the chore of tasting a lot of wine. In the thirty-five years or so...

by Rich Cook | May 13, 2021

You know the feeling: You walk into your local market or wine shop, turn down an aisle and it hits...

by Rich Cook | April 8, 2021

It seems today that we could be about to come out of the past year of quarantine isolation and all...

by Rich Cook | March 4, 2021

It’s been just about a full year since we went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that year...

by Rich Cook | January 20, 2021

In wine, there is truth. I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that truth is a pretty...

by Rich Cook | December 21, 2020

As we look to the close of what has certainly been the most tumultuous year in recent history no matter...

by Rich Cook | November 11, 2020

I recently got reconnected with my wine roots, thanks to an invitation to write about some hidden vineyards in central...

by Rich Cook | November 11, 2020

As if 2020 hasn’t been a year of enough trial and tribulation, at this time of writing a good portion...

by Rich Cook | October 28, 2020

One of the great things about “the journey that is wine” – which is definitely a lifetime journey — is...