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How Wine Can Stop Its Return to an Era of Snoot 07.02.2020
"In the 1970s, sommeliers at many fine restaurants were White French men, or at least White males who pretended to be French. With...
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FeaturesSchalk Opperman of Lammershoek on the Power of Old Vine Swartland Chenin Blanc 06.27.2020
"These old vines were able to survive the test of time. And with the roots being so deep in the soil and all the sandy soils, they...
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Joel Peterson on Ravenswood’s Limbo, New Beginnings and Anniversary Bottles 06.19.2020
"Ravenswood and its founder-winemaker, Joel Peterson, helped prove that Zinfandel could be a wine of structure, balance and elegance...
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Growing Grapes in the Parched Hills of Priorat: Interview with René Barbier of Clos Mogador 06.13.2020
"If you taste Priorat, you will have a clear idea that it’s Priorat because 95% of the terroir of Priorat is Llicorella, this...
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Chad Melville: Honest Wines and Fair Prices Prepped Us for Difficult Times 06.05.2020
"We spoke to Chad before George Floyd was killed and the resulting protests, which were generally peaceful but also sometimes...
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Gideon Beinstock of Clos Saron Talks Cults and Cultivation 05.29.2020
"I'm proud of my work, but I don't take credit for greatness in wine because to me that's the vineyard, because there's no greatness...
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Hidden Treasures for Sale as Restaurants Sell Wine Curbside; Our 1994 Meursault 05.22.2020
"A number of restaurants around the U.S. have extensive collections of older wines they have kept well for a long time and have not...
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Jacques de Klerk of Radford Dale focusing on site-specific wines in Stellenbosch, South Africa 05.16.2020
"We've spent the last 20 years really refining the ethos. And that is site-specific, single-terroir, single-vineyard in some cases,...
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We’ll Always Have Napa: Read This, Then Shut Your Eyes and Imagine 05.08.2020
"But thinking about Napa gives us and millions of others warm feelings because many of us have had some of the best times of our...
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Bruce Murray of Boundary Breaks: Leaving a life of tech startups for the allure of Finger Lakes Riesling 05.02.2020
"The best Riesling, historically, have come from Germany, from Austria, from France, and we have climates here that are very similar...
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Bibiana González Rave: How to Create a Life-Affirming Rosé 04.24.2020
"And so our thoughts have turned, somewhat timidly yet eagerly, to the life-affirming wine that is well-made dry rosé." Dorothy...
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Duncan Savage and the charisma of South African Old Vine Blends 04.19.2020
'People have become more wise from a viticultural point of view and then learning to stand back in the cellar. So, if I look at South...
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Wine and Barbecue, Fathers and Sons: ‘Uncorked’ on Netflix Is Delicious 04.10.2020
"Uncorked combines two of our favorite consumables -- wine and barbecue -- and several things that we rarely see in popular...
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Umani Ronchi, Proud Producer of Marche and Abruzzo Wines 04.09.2020
"Our philosophy is to make wines that are, as we say, 'Grandi vini ma non grossi vini,' great wines but not big wines."...
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Ginny Povall of Botanica Wines: Championing Organics in Stellenbosch 04.04.2020
"...you can see the kind of things that we do here. We do regenerative farming as well. We don't till the soil. So in addition to...
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A Napa Cabernet Taste-Off in Lockdown: Do Good While Holed Up 03.27.2020
"Like a surprising number of people, our own prescription for getting through this involves calming down with a glass of wine – and,...
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What Pairs With ‘Casablanca’ and ‘Shawshank’? Ask a Shut-In Winemaker 03.27.2020
“We’ve been pairing our wines to our movie selections. First, a 2015 Williams Selyem Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir and ‘Casablanca’ — Morocco...
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Interview with Matteo Ascheri, President of The Barolo, Barbaresco, Alba, Langhe, and Dogliani Wine Consortium 03.25.2020
"We are carefully planning our activities and strategy for the upcoming months to make sure we make the right choices for when the...
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Marina Marcarino of Punset Winery in Piedmont and the Agronomic Philosophy of Manasobu Fukuoka 03.23.2020
"In the year 2007, I fell in love with Masanobu Fukuoka and I decided to add to the agriculture of not doing. The agriculture of not...
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Autumn Stoscheck of Eve's Cidery is Shining A Light on Cider's Potential in the Finger Lakes, New York 03.15.2020
Autumn Stoscheck is described as "the Robert Mondavi character in the Finger Lakes cider story," in Jason Wilson's The Cider...
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Phelps Insignia, Jackass Zin and a Vice Bust: How the World Celebrated OTBN 03.13.2020
Wine “has the capacity to lift us out of ourselves by its beauty. The appreciation of that beauty elevates our life through wine.”...
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The Prophecies of Ze’ev Dunie 03.06.2020
"I can’t help thinking of Joseph K. the hapless antihero of Kafka’s The Trial. That’s hardly a cool association for a wine, although...
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Roberto Felluga of Marco Felluga and Russiz Superiore on How The Collio Area is Making Italy's Most Serious White Wines 03.04.2020
The hills of Collio give birth to some of the most complex and interesting white wines, including Pinot Grigio.
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The Billionaire’s Sangiovese: Six Questions With Santa Barbara Winemaker Matt Dees 02.28.2020
"Sangiovese is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It goes through extreme changes. In the course of a day or two it does a complete 180....
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Richard Kershaw: The Master of Wine who has Uncovered South Africa's Potential for World Class Chardonnay 02.22.2020
"Elgin (Chardonnay) tends to have a little bit more flesh on the bones, a little bit more plumpness that kind of gives you that...
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Joel Peterson on Ravenswood’s Limbo, New Beginnings and Anniversary Bottles
"Ravenswood and its founder-winemaker, Joel Peterson, helped prove that Zinfandel could be a...
Gideon Beinstock of Clos Saron Talks Cults and Cultivation
"I'm proud of my work, but I don't take credit for greatness in wine because to me that's...
Ginny Povall of Botanica Wines: Championing Organics in Stellenbosch
"...you can see the kind of things that we do here. We do regenerative farming as well. We...
The Prophecies of Ze’ev Dunie
"I can’t help thinking of Joseph K. the hapless antihero of Kafka’s The Trial. That’s hardly...
