After I announced that I’d be sitting on the “Meet the Bloggers” panel at Wineries & Breweries Unlimited 2014 in Richmond with Fredric Koeppel and David White, a few (dozen) of you asked me (mostly privately) if the session would be recorded. Thanks to some help from the friendly Nomacorc folks, here is…
Category: on the road
Can Terroir Be Bootstrapped? (Dude’s Take On Ventura County For Palate Press)
“Stay out of Malibu, deadbeat!!!” As a stunning display just how behind I am on everything, my take on the upstart, bootstrapping wineries of Southern California’s Ventura County was recently published over at PalatePress.com. Yeah, that’s the one I talked about back in January when we featured the recent releases of Ventura’s Four Brix Winery…
“Best Of The Best” From Premiere Napa Valley 2014
By now, many of you will have heard that 2014’s incarnation of Premiere Napa Valley, the annual Napa Valley Vintners fundraiser auction, broke records and brought in a haul to NVV that I think is best described as a sh*t-ton of money, times three (I had dinner with a couple of nice folks from NVV…
1WineDude TV Episode 59: In Pursuit Of Balance (And Ridiculously Good California Pinot) 2014
Two years ago, after tasting at the 2012 incarnation of the In Pursuit of Balance event (a bi-coastal roadshow of largely classy, vibrant, and restrained California Pinot Noir and Chardonnay offerings), I expressed surprise at the quality of wines coming out of the collaboration between sommelier Raj Parr and winemaker Sashi Moorman. So after tasting…