Giving Gifts to Wine Lovers: My Advice
Here we are in the Holidaze. A time I enjoy and dread with equal measure. I love Winter as a
Piña Napa Valley: Current Releases
If one were to speculate on the wine market as a savvy investor might in the small-cap stock market, the
“Big Jay” Miller Departs Wine Advocate in Wake of Scandal
With eerily similar rhetoric to Herman Cain’s “suspension” of his campaign for President this week, and amidst an equally scandalous
2008 Lang & Reed “Two Fourteen” Cabernet Franc, Napa Valley
All of us wine lovers inevitably discover, in the course of our explorations, our own secret wineries. These are the
Vinography Images: The Barn
The Barn ALEXANDER VALLEY, CA: An old barn north of Healdsburg is seen at the end of a row of
Time for a Margin Call on your Wine?
I wrote last week about the great slurping sound that can be heard from China these days when it comes
Vinography Images: Redwood Valley Autumn
Redwood Valley Autumn REDWOOD VALLEY, CA: A hillside Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard turns a brilliant orange and red color in this
Giving Thanks in 2011
Happy Thanksgiving from Vinography. For those of you outside of North America, today is America’s food holiday, where there is
2009 Morgan Winery “Cote du Crows” Rhone Blend, Monterey
It’s not a huge leap from veterinary medicine to winemaking, and that leap is made even shorter when you’re enrolled
Alder on America: Thanksgiving and Wine
At a certain point in my childhood, Christmas faced a stiff challenge as my favourite holiday. Never mind that I
Vinography Images: Champagne Caps
Champagne Caps REIMS, FRANCE: The caps of opened French Champagne have become a hit with collectors and are on display
The Downside of AOC
, near Bordeaux, whose sales of sugar apparently went off the charts right about around harvest time this year. The
China the Wine Juggernaut
Did you need any further confirmation that China is now the 8000000000 pound gorilla in the global wine industry? From
Vinography Images: Sonoma Fog
Sonoma Fog HEALDSBURG, SONOMA COUNTY, CA: A rolling hillside vineyard in front of the Hanna Vineyards tasting room and winery
International Crime Syndicate Strikes… German Vineyards!?
In several places in the Southern German wine regions of Pfalz and Württemberg, thieves have been making off with hundreds
When I Look at a Wine, I See…
” his article explained how most “official” wine scoring methodologies (both those espoused by critics, as well as those taught
2009 Dry Creek Vineyard “Heritage” Zinfandel, Sonoma County
Driving through California’s wine country, with its carefully manicured vineyards carpeting huge swaths of the countryside, it’s easy to imagine
