Category: Wine Reviews
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 2/26/23
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 2/19/23
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Napa’s Best Cabernet: Tasting the Superb 2021 Vintage at Premiere Napa Valley
Some people run marathons. Me? I taste 150 or so Cabernets before lunch. That’s the way I like to describe
Santa Lucia Highlands—Small But Mighty
In his novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck immortalised California’s Salinas Valley as a paradise, with ‘the smell of azaleas and
Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 2/12/23
Hello, and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 2/5/23
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The Wines of the Flaming Fields
Without a doubt, there’s something special about volcanic wines. The fruit that grows on vines plunged into the remains of
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 1/22/23
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 1/15/23
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 12/25/22
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Ridge Vineyards: An American Wine Icon at 60
In 1968, a young Paul Draper was just beginning his career as a winemaker. After a brief stint making some
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 12/18/22
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The Ancient Taste: Notes on Some Georgian Wines
By tracing the DNA relationships between known grape varieties, and correlating those results with the radiocarbon dating of archeological discoveries,
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 11/20/22
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 11/13/22
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The Elegance of Age: Tasting South Africa’s Oldest Vines
Old vines make better wines. Like so many broad generalizations in the wine industry, that’s a verifiably false statement. Plenty
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 11/6/22
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 10/30/22
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Putting South African Chardonnay in a Global Context
Chardonnay. A grape both worshipped and reviled. It is the magical stuff of Montrachet, making $18,000 bottles of the most
