Category: Ramblings and Rants
The Danger of Eating Winery Food
WARNING: if you have a delicate stomach, do not read this post. If you’ve got a reasonable amount of mettle,
Wine Judging: Jury Duty With Alcohol
The Sacramento Bee has got a great article this week about wine judging for competitions. The Bee’s staff writer J.
What Is A Perfect Wine?
My fellow blogger Tom, who writes Fermentations, had a great post yesterday (and see his follow up) about a discussion
Vinography And The Wine Fairy
Just a small snippet for those who may be interested. I was interviewed this week on Wine and Dine Radio,
Whine By The Glass
Thanks to Noah over at Juice for the tip on a thought provoking article in Food and Wine about wine
Who Is Responsible For Hedonistic Fruit Bombs?
Thanks to Tom over at Fermentations for the tip on a wonderfully written article in the London Review of Books
American Oak May Be On Its Way Out
Various reports and editorials lately have mused at the backlash against over-oaked wines, particularly Chardonnay. While I had no doubt
Spectator Ratings On Your Mobile Phone
Thanks to a tip from Professor Bainbridge, Vinography has just learned that you can get all of Wine Spectators wine
What’s In A Name? How About 20% in Sales Growth
As much as I dislike it (and even try and fight it here at Vinography) we human beings are creatures
Jancis Robinson on Women and Wine
I stumbled across this interview with Jancis Robinson recently which is actually quite bad, because it dwells for the entire
Does Success Change A Wine?: Rosenblum is About To Find Out
Get out your microscopes and train them on the petri dish of the East Bay to see how a family
Today’s Value Wine Pick: 125,000 Bottles for $100
In what has got to be one of the steals of the century, Ken Jacques of San Luis Obispo just
Thoughts On The Occasion of Turning One
One year ago yesterday I embarked on a project to catalog my wine and food adventures in an informative way.
Is There a Genetically Modified Wine in Your Future?
This week at a symposium in Napa, various stakeholders came together to discuss the future/possibility/fallacy of genetically modified wine grapes.
Help Vinography Celebrate One Year of Wine Blogging
Dear Vinography Subscribers, Supporters, and Friends, On January 15th, 2005 (this coming Saturday) Vinography.Com turns one year old. It’s been
We Need More Winemakers Like This…
Here’s a dynamo winemaker from Spain who is truly the people’s winemaker. He makes wines that are $80 a bottle
The Wine Police Blotter
If you had any doubt about wine’s gaining popularity around the world, you need look no further than this: even
Who Wants to Keep You From Ordering Wine?
I’ve been reluctant to take up the issue of interstate wine shipping because a lot of other people more qualified
Vinography In The Sacramento Bee
I’m beginning to get a little overwhelmed by the press that the holiday season has bestowed on Vinography. Any more