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France in California

California’s Central Coast Winemakers go for the Rhône It is fun to jump around and write about things I see or wines I drink. But focusing on a topic gives me a deeper satisfaction. Delving into topics brings up wonderful  ...

  September 6, 2018

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Wines for the lazy days of summer

Rosés, Albariños, Sangiovese – all have a place on your porch This is a lazy blog post in these, the dog days of summer. Instead of the usual research and writing for this blogazine, I will write about the great wines I had  ...

  August 9, 2018

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Wine in the time of War

French winemakers face extreme hardship during Nazi occupation of France during World War II.

  July 16, 2018

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Douro Valley Summers: Three months of hell, great wine

Only the truly determined make it here Two hundred and fifty years is not old in many parts of the world, but to a Californian even the turn of the nineteenth century feels historical. So with great excitement we visited the  ...

  July 6, 2018

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Olfactory, gustatory work in unison

Learn wine aromas one at a time.

  June 14, 2018

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Douro Valley: Unusual beauty

Put Douro on your itinerary, even if port isn’t your thing At 9:30 a.m. the traffic was light on the freeway that took us from Porto to the Douro Valley –- surprise to dwellers in American metropolises. Our guide, Francisco  ...

  May 23, 2018

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Porto offers wine, food, awesome views

The ancient city of Porto offers an abundance of food, wine, fun.

  May 11, 2018

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Brrr. Let’s have a glass of wine

Researchers bring wine grapes to cold climes It was not until last June, on a visit to wineries in Vermont https://suruchimohan.com/2017/07/26/wandering-the-vineyards-in-vermont/ that I learned about cold-hardy grapes. That  ...

  April 18, 2018

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Texas vintners overcome weather challenge

Vineyardists use technology to overcome hostile conditions. However cosmopolitan we may consider ourselves, I suspect at the end of the day we are frogs in a well. Okay, maybe a pond. True, the size of the pond may differ,  ...

  April 9, 2018

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Love of science, land led to career in winemaking

Parents’ love of wine tasting awakened a love of chemistry As a child, Tara Gomez loved the smell of wine cellars. Though not winemakers, her parents enjoyed tasting wine. They went sampling on the Central Coast with the  ...

  February 2, 2018