Category: Ramblings and Rants
The King of Luckytown
There are 16 apricots in a blue and grey bowl on the kitchen counter this evening, in varying states of
Do You Need Your Wine Zapped?
Purveyors of crazy, magic wine implements, beware, you’ve now got to compete with the mental powers of young farm boys.
Results From the Vinography Reader Survey
A few weeks ago I conducted the first survey of who you folks are and what the heck you’re doing
The Most Powerful People in Wine
Last month’s (I think — I’m way behind on my reading) Decanter magazine had an interesting feature on the “most
Number By Half (Wines You Can Count On)
My friend David Darlington’s name appeared in the byline of an article, published in yesterday’s (August 7, 2005) New York
Fingerprinting Wine: Your Tax Dollars at Work
Lanthanum, Cerium, Uranium, Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Barium, Titanium, Rubidium, Zinc and Copper. Sounds like a bad flashback from honors
The New Wine Regions To Watch
Where is the new hot wine going to come from? What will be the next Napa? The next Barossa Valley?
Vinography on Wine vs. Beer
Here at Vinography, I try to bring you news that’s worth talking and thinking about. There are lots of news
More Sniping at the Top of The Wine World
If it’s not one thing, it’s another. The American wine critics and the European ones seem to make it a
HEY YOU: Please Take the Vinography Reader Survey
I’ve now been chattering on here for a good 18 months or so. You know all about me. When and
Good Things From The Garden (The Terroir Blues)
CK Mondavi used to have a slogan: “Every year’s a Vintage year in California!” Like most marketing slogans, it seemed
Please Welcome Steve Edmunds
Dear readers, I am pleased to announce the addition of a new voice to Vinography. Steve Edmunds, proprietor and winemaker
A Heart Laid Bare
Regular readers will know that I have high standards and fussy tendencies when it comes to writing about wine. Frankly

Wine Flavors According to Jelly Belly and Deloach Vineyards
I don’t know the last time I was so simultaneously grossed out and also strangely curious at the same time.
Jancis Robinson on High Alcohol Wines
Based on responses to several posts in the past, I can see that alcohol levels in wine are a hot
The ’96 White Burgundy Time Bomb
I don’t have a lot of room or patience for aging wines. I tuck a few bottles away for a
The wine story of the 20th Century
I couldn’t help but pass on this nice little story from the Chronicle about the “tasting heard round the world”