Global Warming Reaches for a Cold One
I’ve never met a winemaker who doubted the reality of climate change – like everyone who works in agriculture, winemakers (and especially those who grow ...
Tagging Along in the Vineyard
The Champagne region had one of its earliest harvests on record and to add to the excitement, this is also looking like one of the ...
Becoming a Pinotphile
August 18 is National Pinot Noir Day. I’m not sure what marketing guru decided this already successful grape needs its own day – it’s not ...
Feeling The Heat
Here is one of the basic tenets of wine: climate is what you expect and weather is what you get. In other words, here in ...
Seeing the World with Rosé Glasses
There is nothing more seasonal than rosé wine – it comes out with the first day of spring and then everyone puts it away with ...
Who’s Buying?
As you walk the aisles of your favorite location to buy wine, have you ever looked around at who else is there? You can bet ...
Why Best In Glass is a BIG deal
A group of outstanding South Florida sommeliers got together in the beverage lab at Johnson & Wales University February 12 and performed a wonderful service ...
Gearing Up for the Holidays
Wine for the Holidays We are dashing full speed into the abyss known as “the year-end holidays,” and while the prospect of celebration ...
A Sense of Place
Though not conveyed by an official looking seal, there are some serious regulations behind that seemingly simple designation that your bottle of wine is from ...
A Bunch of Grape Events
This is one of those weeks during the year when I envy that hamster running on his exercise wheel to nowhere – even he seems ...