Sad news reverberated through the wine world recently, with particular resonance here on the Right Coast. Deb Whiting, whose culinary talents at Red Newt Bistro provided a near storybook compliment to her husband David’s winemaking skills at the Finger Lakes winery that they co-owned, died last week in an automobile accident. David Whiting was also…
Dance On A Volcano: Grapegrowing At The Edge Of Time At Clos de los Siete
“This…. this was all vineyards of Malbec…” They say the Italian influence runs strong in Argentina, and nowhere does it look stronger than in the face of our driver, Carlos Tizio Mayer – Plump, Roman-nosed and topped with a wavy shock of grey hair, he could be any of a dozen Italian uncles plucked straight…
Is It Time For Wine To Get The Like Button?
We wine geeks review wines in all manner of differing ways. There’s nearly as much variety in those review systems as there are in wine styles. Points. Stars. In my case, grades and badges. And we’re social about it, too – CellarTracker.com is pretty much the world’s largest wine review repository at this point (closing…
The PLCB’s Version Of “Innovation” (or “God Help Me, I’m A Wine Lover Living In PA!”)
The recent news of perpetually-hip grocery company Wegman’s pulling out of the troubled PA Liquor Control Board’s wine kiosk program has caused a bit of a stir in the wine world, if we take “stir” to mean “mostly sardonic snickering, followed by a glassy-eyed stare caused by the grim realization that we live in a…