Category: Ramblings and Rants
Vinography in Food & Wine Magazine
Vinography appeared in the current issue (October) of Food & Wine Magazine this week. Writer Mickey Butts highlighted his list
Ode to The Winemaker
My fellow blogger Tom over at Fermentations has a nice piece this week about winemakers, and how they can be
The Great California Cabernet Classification
It was only a matter of time before someone went ahead and classified California Cabernet along the lines of the
The Boy In The Bubble Visits New York Hot Spots
Warning: This is decidedly not Politically Correct, but it is too funny not to post, even though it’s a bit
Burgundy, Terroir, and Globalization
Folks who have hung around here for a while might remember my problems with Jonathan Nossiter’s film Mondovino. In particular
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
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
