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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 ...
Porto offers wine, food, awesome views
The ancient city of Porto offers an abundance of food, wine, fun.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Happy new year. A bit late.
Sometimes I think, with more than a little embarrassment, that too many of my posts start with an apology for having let so much time slip. The holidays with family, a hard-drive crash that threw me at Apple’s mercy for a ...
Paderewski: Father of Zinfandel
Award-winning zinfandels made Paderewski a wine legend It is hard to resist anything if you are neck deep in slush. So it was with Ignace Jan Paderewski. As he sat in a mud bath in Paso Robles, nursing nerve pain in his left ...
Pianist Paderewski in Paso Robles
Paderewski arrives in Paso Every once in awhile, you stumble upon a story that takes you so deep into itself that only a very determined struggle extricates you from its tentacles. In planning a trip in the waning days of ...
Smoke may have tainted some grapes on the vine
As with so much smoke in life, time will tell Despite the note of optimism I sounded in my previous post, it turns out that some grapes have absorbed too much smoke to be of any use for winemaking. A story in the San ...