Sonoma CoastThe 2011 West of West Wine Festival is almost around the corner – held in Occidental, CA, the festival will showcase cool-climate (well, cool-climate for CA, that is!) Pinots, Syrahs and Chardonnays; limited production wines from wineries that are not usually open to the public. These are West Sonoma Coast producers who are making…
Signs Of Life: What It Takes To Make Wines Of True Character (With Matt Powell of Draconis)
What Is The Job Of The Winemaker Today? Simple question, right? “Duh! To make wine!” you might be answering to yourself. What could be more simple than that? But real wine lovers, and real winemakers, know better; they know that almost no other query could be more complicated, opinionated, difficult, thought-provoking, or (hopefully!)invigorating to answer….
Talkin’ ‘Bout Their Wine G-G-G-Generation (Millennials And Wine At WBC11)
Those of you planning on attending the upcoming 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference in Charlottesville, VA will have your choice of interesting break-out session panels during the afternoon of July 22nd. I’ll be moderating one of them, titled Millennials and Wine. Millennials are Democratic (by a slight majority), thoroughly on-line and plugged daily into social networking…
1WineDude TV Episode 36: Not Quite Dead (Why Most Wine Books Don’t Match With eReaders… Yet!)
In this Episode of 1WineDude TV, we’re talking about why wine books are Exhibit A evidence in the case against printed books being dead. Also mentioned is a cool book about hands that’s (mostly) unrelated to wine but that you might want to check out anyway. Don’t worry, it will all makes sense after you…