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Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Tasting the first 10 vintages (2005 - 2014) of Pritchard Hill's Continuum plus a 2022 Sentium and a 1980 Robert Mondavi Fumé Blanc

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The launch of Continuum represented an attempt to resurrect (in short order) the Robert Mondavi branch of the winemaking family tree. The li...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Tasting Tignanello 1990 - 2020 (Selected vintages)

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A small group of Orlando-area wine enthusiasts have been holding monthly in-depth tastings of specific wines in order to improve our underst...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Giacomo Tachis and the foundations of Super Tuscandom

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He is said to have dragged Italian wine "kicking and screaming" into the 20th century by changing the style and the way the wines ...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Book Review: Tor Kenward's Reflections of a Vintner

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I have the good fortune of being able to call Tor Kenward friend. I have shared golf carts with him on Florida courses, sat through multiple...
Monday, May 6, 2024

California wines of the 70s-80s versus wines of the 90s: Robert Parker in a Foreword of Tor Kenward's Reflections of a Vintner

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I recently got my hands on a copy of Tor Kenward's Reflections of a Vintner  and was stopped dead in my tracks by its two (count them, ...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Sentium, a white wine from Continuum

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Seeking to establish a throughline from the groundbreaking Fumé Blanc of her grandfather to her current generation, Chiara Mondavi has intr...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Robert Mondavi: Introduction of his Fumé Blanc

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Based on Clark Smith's interpretation of wine history, the "tools of 20th century winemaking" were stainless steel, inert gas...