A few days after our dinner at Melba’s, we reached out to Deneen Brown, CEO of Brown Estate, to talk about the House of Brown range and what looks to us like smart ways to reach a new generation of wine drinkers while retaining longtime fans.
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September 19, 2024
March 22, 2024We were at the final dinner of the 2024 Wine Writers Symposium in Napa recently when we met Jerry Seps, pioneering founder and winemaker of much-awarded Storybook Mountain Vineyards Winery, north of Calistoga. We thanked him for his work in ZAP, Zinfandel Advocates & Producers, which has kept one of our favorite grapes and early loves in the public eye for decades.
Some parts of the wine world move slowly, but there are new trends and buzzwords every year. What should you be prepared to hear in the coming year? Here’s a list from A to Z.
June 19, 2020"Ravenswood and its founder-winemaker, Joel Peterson, helped prove that Zinfandel could be a wine of structure, balance and elegance as well as power." Dororthy J. Gaiter and John Brecher
"It's really not hard for us to farm natural, to farm organic, and to do as natural as it can get." Boris Mrgudić of the Bura Mrgudić Winery in Croatia
"It had been a long time since we’d had a Zinfandel from Peachy Canyon and they were like running into old friends." Dorothy. J. Gaiter
Top Croatian wine blogger Željko Garmaz on Croatia's unique wine journey. Both a very old and a very new wine region, Croatia has had to overcome communism and war as it now re-establishes itself on the world wine stage.
