Welcome to the Weekly Wine Quiz, peoples. Based on feedback from ever-so-vocal-and-intelligent peeps like you, I supply the quiz question each week, but do *not* supply the quiz answer directly in the post. That’s because YOU are supposed to supply the answer in the comments, and then tune back in later today in the comments…
Month: August 2012
Rare By Nature, Rare By Nurture (The Inside View Of Rutherglen Rare Topaque And Muscat)
Geographic isolation engenders resourcefulness. As well as entire rooms that smell like caramel and sultanas. Let’s start with the resourcefulness. When Scottish friends George Sutherland Smith and John Banks decided in the 1860s that they couldn’t wait for materials to be shipped in to them to build All Saints, a winemaking property on the bank…
How To Put Up With Wine Lists (Wined Down)
Last week I was interviewed by the IntoWine.com folks (these are the same folks who engendered a great deal of controversy in the wine world when they released their first annual list of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the U.S. Wine Industry“). IntoWine.com was (overly) kind in their introduction of me at the…