When we were new to wine in the 1970s, before America really warmed to it, there was a lot of unusual stuff on shelves. We drank quite a bit of Bull’s Blood from Hungary, for instance, which was rough but cheap. U.S. winemakers were still experimenting, too. We will always remember the Napa sparkling wine pioneer Hanns Kornell at his tasting room, proudly pouring a traditionally made bubbly made from a grape called Muscat of Alexandria.
massican
November 01, 2024
April 21, 2023Dan Petroski, winemaker and owner of Massican, which makes only whites in Napa Valley, has one of the most fertile minds we’ve come across in our 50 years of enjoying and studying wine. But when we heard about his latest project, even we had to say: What the Falanghina? Essentially, the idea is this: What if he asked other vintners to create a wine that would fit under the Massican style umbrella? Considering that winemakers have such individual passions, this seems a bit out there.
January 21, 2015“You’re drinking a style of wine,” he said, “but also a cultural history.”
June 09, 2014Dan Petroski, 40, Massican’s owner and winemaker, makes only three wines, all white, making five-year-old Massican an anomaly in Cabernet Sauvignon-centered Napa.
