Chile’s wine business is dominated by producers that could charitably be described as “corporate.” Its movements are almost exclusively set by a small number of very, very large production houses. In that environment, 30 hectares of vineyards – which comprises the entire holdings of Viña von Siebenthal – is basically a rounding error. I was…
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What We Drank To Ring In 2017
When you’re the “wine guy,” the one that everyone kind of expects to hit it out of the park when you bring wine to a party, what’s the vinous game plan when you’re invited to holiday dinner parties to ring in the new year? In a word, ringers. You grab items from the sample pool…
What We Drank When We Remembered That America Was Already Great
A good number of people, both within the USA and abroad, read this blog. At times, that includes a lot of the U.S. wine biz, but also many wine lovers and wine insiders abroad. This post is dedicated to all of them. Look, I’m not gonna sugarcoat this, things have been pretty f*cked up since…
Nine, Ten, Eleven (Tenuta di Arceno In Retrospective)
I realize that, by running with yet another Tuscan wine review write-up (and those fresh on the heels of a Soave write-up), I am also running with the risk of 1WD appearing as though it’s an Italian-wine-only website. But hey, it’s my website, if you don’t like it, go make your own damn wine blog,…