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

Dante's hell by Botticelli

Messages In a Bottle: The Wine Comedy

This afternoon I poured myself the last of a bottle that had been opened earlier in the week, and wandered

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

image of summer grass

Messages in a Bottle: The Dog Days of Wine

Stacked akimbo in the corner of my kitchen table, now leaning at a somewhat crazy angle, is the two-month-old pile

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”

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