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“Wine Girl” Author Victoria James: 10 Questions on Where We’re Headed 07.30.2020
"You used to be able to open a restaurant on a dollar and a dream. Now, you need a whole corporate structure, and for good...
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Dave Miner's Passion for California Viognier 07.25.2020
"I have always loved Condrieu so it's fun and I've worked with some guys such as Francois Villard and Yves Gangloff and hung out...
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The Ciró Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Artisanal Calabrian Winemakers Sweep Italy 08.08.2020
Cirò is at the very center of a crucial wine transformation happening right now in Calabria, arguably Italy's most exciting wine region!...
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Exploring Liguria Through the LAN Cable 07.28.2020
"Due to the extremely steep slopes and small-sized vineyards, the region is unable to mechanize in the vineyards. For the same...
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How a U.S. Convenience Store Magnate Is Turning Around Italy's Enrico Serafino Winery 07.17.2020
'So back home in Des Moines, he started looking for wineries. “I’m sitting there in the middle of Iowa. How do you find a winery in...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Open That Bottle Night 2020: Even IKEA Ireland Has Gotten on Board 02.14.2020
"OTBN is observed on the last Saturday of February, which is Feb. 29 this year. OTBN will be celebrated throughout the world, from...
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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...
