Be open to all wines; varietals and winemaking styles, regions and AVAs, sub-AVAs, all of it. How else […]
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Courte Pause It’s healthy to break from wine, as you might conceptualize. To just take a break, collect […]
Just Wanted Wine So much when you write about wine, or concede you’re drinking it, you have to […]
Animated, brilliant, a subtext of a dominantly pervasive message of Burgundian woo. Surprisingly dark, convincing but still gentle, […]
Encouraging Sip-Ignorance It’s advantageous to know what you’re sipping, I understand.. vintage, varietal, AVA, sub-AVA, sub-sub-AVA, and whatever […]
Wined and Windblown Had been meaning to stop, for years, and finally I did a few weeks […]
mood. Write your way out of it. I’ve said this before, but today I’m in some sort of […]
I’ve written before that Chardonnay and I have the more quirky and turbulent of communicative associations. But with […]
2013 Cartograph Wines Pinot Noir, Choate Vineyard, Green Valley: Seraphic from the first contact to palate’s end. Thick […]
“I’m giving my notice tomorrow, a 90 day heads-up.” Now this I didn’t expect. She’s quitting? Obviously to […]