As the name suggests, the Santa Rosa Plain neighborhood is the flatter region of the Russian River Valley. Most of these vineyard sites are heavily dominated by the clay-based Huichica...
Read MoreWhat can I say? 2016 was a year of giddying heights and dizzying lows, vinously and personally. The wine world lost some truly beautiful minds. But it appears mother nature...
Read MoreWhat you get when driving through Boonville and beyond on Highway 128 through Anderson Valley is a genuine sense of place—the feeling that Mendocino County is a collective group of...
Read MoreHere are the top-rated 2014s from my most recent Southern Rhône report in Issue 228, listed by appellation....
Read MoreI wrote a version of this diatribe on a tasting note once, but that was too easy to miss and really too long for inclusion in a tasting note. So,...
Read MoreAmpelography is the identification and classification of grape vines. You may be wondering why identifying and classifying grapevines is important. Without it, you simply cannot tell from the grape itself...
Read MoreHere are the top-rated 2015s from my most recent Southern Rhône report in Issue 228, listed by appellation....
Read MoreNeal Martin explores one of the culinary institutions of Northern Spain with a novel way of delivering food to your plate....
Read MoreThomson favors Italian grape varieties and makes astoundingly good Barbera and Nebbiolo under her own label. She employs Old-World methods in the cellar, including extended aging in 600-liter casks for...
Read MoreOn a recent trip to Italy, I visited the cities of Milano, Genova and Alba, with a day-trip to Cinque Terre. Among these four destinations, I visited countless cafés, bars...
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