Tasty Pedagogy Stuhlmuller Vineyards – 2014 Estate Chardonnay – Alexander Valley A jazzy Chardonnay algorithm from a producer […]
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Instead repeating descriptors that someone somewhere has already said or written, I talk about the wine’s personality. Its […]
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 […]
Encouraging Sip-Ignorance It’s advantageous to know what you’re sipping, I understand.. vintage, varietal, AVA, sub-AVA, sub-sub-AVA, and whatever […]
So after the meeting in the Sanglier tasting room this morning, and the tasting at Hartford Court (new […]
Thoughts on the drive home involved not wine but teaching, and how today’s session at Solano (where the […]
Sipping some of the Merlot I bought yesterday at Gundlach Bundschu, the ’12, and I can see why […]
Aperture Cellars, Alexander Valley, Red Wine, 2011 A wildly vocal blend, Bordeaux varietals, Cab/Malbec, and one that commands […]
Finally at the desk to write freely. Met with winemaker friend Jesse earlier, and before so met with […]