Roberta Bricolo

I’ll Drink to That: All About Lake Garda

Episode 484 of I’ll Drink to That! features a deep dive into Italy’s Lake Garda, and the wines produced along

Vinography Unboxed: Week of 3/21/21

Welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted. I’m pleased

new vineyard planting

Vinography Images: Planting the Matrix

Looking down at a new vineyard site from the scrubby hills surrounding Eden Rift Vineyards in the Cienega Valley, a

wine being poured

Wine Aerators: $336.9 Million Worth of Bullsh*t

So the saying goes: “A fool and his money are soon parted.” We might be the species that has taken

newspapers

Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 3/21/21

Welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I post them

box of wine

Vinography Unboxed: Week of 3/14/21

Welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted. I’m pleased

Spring is Coming

Vinography Images: Spring is Coming

Budbreak in Hyde Vineyard in the Carneros AVA. Most California vineyards are not quite this far along in their beginnings

empty husk

Wine Bloggers: An Endangered Species

I think I finally know how my wife’s grandmother felt. A year or two before she passed at the age

magazines on couch

Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 3/14/21

Welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I post them

ice on a table

Frozen Wine in Texas

It’s being called by some ‘the St Valentine’s day massacre’. Starting on 9 February, a cold front descended on the

Françoise Vannier

I’ll Drink To That: Geologist Françoise Vannier

Episode 483 of I’ll Drink to That! features Françoise Vannier, a French geologist who has made a multi-decade study of

box of wine

Vinography Unboxed: Week of 3/7/21

Welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted. I’m pleased

Line of thinking

Vinography Images: Line of Thinking

Steve Matthiasson walks in his vineyard in the Oak Knoll District of Napa, as the morning sun makes trellis wires

Steven Spurrier

RIP Steven Spurrier: Losing a Gentleman of the Wine World

This morning the Academie du Vin Library issued a press release announcing the death of an icon in the wine

magazines

Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 2/7/21

Welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I post them

box of wine bottles

Vinography Unboxed: Week of 2/28/21

Welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted. I’m pleased

landscape

Vinography Images: Strange Creatures

Frost fans stand starkly against the morning fog, like strange creatures in an otherworldly landscape, as the vineyards of the

Great News: Wine Tariffs Get 4-month Suspension

What’s that sound? No, not all those Champagne corks popping. The other sound. Yes, it’s the sound of every wine

Magazines

Wine News: What I’m Reading the Week of 2/28/21

Welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I post them

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