The Forest Dreams of the Savoie Vine: The Wines of Domaine Curtet
Can you taste integrity? Spend enough time thinking and talking about wine, especially great wine, and inevitably you have to
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 8/8/21
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Vinography Images: It Begins
Night harvest at McCrea Vineyard on Sonoma Mountain. The 2021 harvest has begun in a number of places in Northern
Wineries Should Require Proof of Vaccination to Taste Indoors
If New York City restaurants can require their indoor dining guests to provide proof of vaccination, why can’t wineries? Mask
Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 8/8/21
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Vinography Images: Sunlight Held Together by Water
Ripe chardonnay grapes on the vine are shot through with morning sun at the Hyde Vineyard in California’s Carneros region,
Rethinking the Backyard BBQ Wine
We do a lot of grilling at my house, especially in the summer months. Now that we’ve moved across the
Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 8/1/21
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Three Men, One Shovel: The Single-Vineyard Cabernets of La Pelle
Earlier this year, I wrote up an extensive report on many of the new (to me) producers of Napa Valley
Vinography Images: Vine Hill Hands
The amount of work required to produce the highest quality grapes remains unknown to most wine drinkers. Here a crew
Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 7/25/21
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 7/18/21
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Vinography Images: Before the Vineyard
Replanting work at Trenton Roadhouse Vineyard in Forestville, California. An immense amount of work and planning goes into the planting
Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 7/18/21
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Vinography Unboxed: Week of 7/11/21
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Vinography Images: Pritchard Moon
A crescent moon rises, to be followed shortly by the dawn framed, by the vineyard rows at Brand Vineyards on
Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 7/11/21
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That Heat Dome: How Are Vines Coping?
On 29 June, as the so-called heat dome settled over British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, the weather station near the Red
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 7/4/21
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