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Settle into the holidays with a glass of wine
Take your pick of white, pink, or red to entertain or enjoy by the fire The past few weeks, I have been writing furiously on things unrelated to wine. But in time for the holidays, when entertaining acquires the ...
Wine families bring Rhône wine to California
Tablas Creek, Chateau de Beaucastel propel Rhône movement Civilization has marched beyond the thinkable, but getting right down to it, we see that essentials have remained much the same. Establishing vineyards follows the ...
America’s Rhône makers come together as Rangers
Rhône Rangers celebrate twenty years of alliance Since the movement has matured, writing about latitudes and sunshine was easier than trying to draw a circumference around the story of Rhône in California. It was like parsing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wine in the time of War
French winemakers face extreme hardship during Nazi occupation of France during World War II.
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 ...
