Category: Wine Reviews
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 7/21/24
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Checking in on Idaho
A little more than ten years ago, an unsolicited case of wine showed up on my doorstep. That wasn’t particularly
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 7/14/24
Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 7/7/24
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The Flavor of Family: Tasting the Wines of the Primum Familiae Vini
The Primum Familie Vini is an organization uniting 12 prestigious, multi-generational, family-owned European wine companies. Each one makes one (or
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 6/30/24
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 6/23/24
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 6/16/24
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Shake Ridge Ranch in All Its Glory
Throughout the world of wine, certain vineyards become legendary. Some because they are synonymous (or even eponymous) with legendary producers
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 6/2/24
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Tasting the Swartland Revolution
When I first went to South Africa in 2008 for the Cape Wine convention, I knew next to nothing about
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 5/26/24
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Marin – Potential Wasted?
The pioneers of California viticulture were the Mexican padres who, beginning in the late 1700s, planted grapes as they established
Cultivating Eden: 150 Years of Henschke Winemaking
There’s a lot of talk these days among the wine cognoscenti about the waning significance of the distinctions “Old World”
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 5/19/24
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 5/12/24
Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.
Sampling Napa Royalty: Notes from the Taste of Oakville
It might not drive the pulse quite as much as an invitation to the annual presentation of Domaine de la
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 5/5/24
Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.
Tasting Sonoma’s Best Barrel Lots
Attending trade auctions at which the wine industry offers special barrel lots that are generally unobtainable by ordinary consumers serves
