Category: Wine Reviews

Vinography Unboxed: Week of 1/28/24
Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.

Vinography Images: Elbow Grease
Punchdowns work a little differently when your fermentation vessel is a Talha, a terra cotta amphora about your size. You

California’s Top Zinfandels: Tasting at ZAP 2024
Gone are the days when 500 Zinfandel producers and 8000 members of the trade and public would descend upon both

Vinography Unboxed: Week of 1/21/23
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Tasting The Ghost Grape: A Deep Look at Pignolo
What virtues are there to be found in obscurity? Don’t ask a hipster. They’ll just roll their eyes and go

West Coast Trousseau
An obscure grape found in the Jura region of France and in the Douro region of Portugal has become indelibly

Vinography Unboxed: Week of 1/14/24
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 12/31/23
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 12/24/23
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The Wines of COS and the Soul of Vittoria, Sicily
Most wine lovers are fated to fall in love with far more wines and wineries than they will manage to

Vinography Unboxed: The Week of 12/17/23
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Alder’s Wines of 2023
It’s been, as they say, something of a year for me. One that I’m going to be very happy to

Vinography Unboxed: Week of 12/10/23
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 12/3/23
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 11/26/23
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California’s Top Sparkling Wines
California sparkling wine has long been dominated by a select few producers, many of which have been modelled on (and

Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 10/29/23
Hello, and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I

Making a Place for País
If I had to select the single most important and impactful trend in the world of wine, it would have

Vinography Unboxed: Week of 10/22/23
Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted.