As you’ll see from the vid published earlier this week’s, I recently had the pleasure of going back to Hungary, primarily to engage in Phase 2 of the FurmintUSA promotional program, filming a new set of videos for the Furmint Adventures series. That’s always fun, because the wines are largely excellent, the scenery settings beautiful,…
Category: going pro
Get Screwed This Winter (Publix Grape Winter 2015)
Just a quick hit to let you know that the Winter 2015 edition of Publix Grape Magazine should soon be available (if not already), and that I’ve once again penned the In Focus section (as well as some other items in that issue). This time, In Focus focuses on screwtop closures, with some insights from…
Mama Don’t Take No Mess (Livermore Valley, Reconsidered at Palate Press)
One of my media tours this year had me returning to California’s perennially underrated Livermore Valley, where I’d not been for a few years, and reconnecting with the likes of local vintners Karl Wente and Steve Mirassou, neither of whom I’d seen (or, more importantly, tasted with) lately. The tour was very well executed, with…
Rolling Out The Barrels (PUBLIX Grape Fall 2015)
Summer’s almost over. Yeah, I said it. Yeah, it’s mildly depressing. Yeah, it’s a good excuse to drink. For those of you within the mailing address sphere of supermarket chain PUBLIX, you can find my latest contribution to their wine-focused magazine, Grape, in the soon-to-be-released Fall 2015 issue. Therein, among other things, we revisit the…