• July 10, 2026 Dorothy J. Gaiter & John Brecher

    Melon in a Glass? Long Island Wineries Embrace ‘a Weird Name’

    During our first trip to California Wine Country, back in the early 1970s, we visited Sebastiani Winery in Sonoma and had our first taste of Gewürztraminer. We had never heard of that grape variety and its name stopped us as we were raising our glasses to have a look at it. Is that one word or two, we asked the patient tasting room server who appreciated that we, along with most Americans in that era, were newbies to wine. Well,…

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  • June 19, 2026 Lisa Denning
    It's known as the Cradle of Wine, yet many Americans think of a U.S. state when they hear its name. The country of Georgia, located in the South Caucasus between Europe and Asia, is home to the oldest known evidence of winemaking. Archaeologists discovered traces of grape residue in Stone Age clay vessels south of what is now Tbilisi, dating…
  • June 12, 2026 Dorothy J. Gaiter & John Brecher
    We all need some good news these days and here it is, though it is also bittersweet. We have been working for more than two years to find the ending to this story. In 1976, a former professor of European history named Jerry Seps and his wife, Sigrid, visited Napa Valley and fell in love with a spot north of…
  • June 9, 2026 Lisa Denning
    Chris Walsh makes wine in a garage. Not the two-car garage at his grandparents’ house, where he launched End of Nowhere in 2016, but a larger one: his father’s former auto shop. After years spent working in New York City, first in lighting design and then in the wine world, Walsh returned home to Amador County in the Sierra Foothills,…
  • June 5, 2026 Lee Pai
    When talking about great wine regions and producers, we often associate them with heritage and legacy, something that can only be built with enough history. When it comes to Mendoza, it can still be mistaken as young and new due to its “New World” designation. But if we take a look back at the story of Mendoza, and of Luigi…

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