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Sunday, March 30, 2014

A generalized, grapevine-needs-driven, viticulture architecture

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Orly Ashenfelter and Karl Storchman have recently completed a Working Paper titled Wine and Climate Change, portions of which I intend to hi...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Saint-Péray AOC: A fount of bubbles in a still-wine sea

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The Rhône wine region runs along its namesake river for 150 miles between Lyon in the north and Avignon in the south with a division into no...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Cremant de Die and Clairette de Die: Two faces of sparkling wine

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In my continuing research on sparkling wine regions, I encountered Die, a wine region 30 miles off the Rhône beaten path, with sharply contr...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

Playing with the big boys on their second go-round: wineontheway.com Syndicate and BRAND #PNV14

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Two Orlando-wine-retailer-led syndicates (wineontheway.com, The Wine Barn) enjoyed success at the recently concluded 2014 Premiere Napa Vall...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

The bagging of Lot 215, Oakville East - Exposure 2014 Cabernet Franc #PNV14

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In three of the past four years I have traveled to Napa with a group of Orlando friends to participate in Premiere Napa Valley (PNV), the an...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Oxidative notes and wine faults: Continuation of my response to Tom Stevenson's comments

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I recently addressed a portion of the Tom Stevenson comments on my post juxtaposing his critiques of the Selosse Champagnes with the so-ca...