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Thursday, November 14, 2024

The making of the Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon

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Monte Bello is the Ridge Vineyards property located in the Saratoga/Los Gatos sub-region of the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA where the combinati...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Ridge Vineyards: Monte Bello grape-growing environment and farming practices

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The Orlando Friends Tasting Group will be tasting selected vintages of Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon this upcoming weekend....
Saturday, November 9, 2024

California's Santa Cruz Mountains AVA

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The Orlando Friends Tasting Group has, over the past year, held events focused on Constellation's To Kalon wines . Continuum , Tignanell...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Tenute di Nuna: Straddling the Milo-Sant'Alfio borderline

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Tenute di Nuna is a Sant'Alfio-based winery operated by Marina Novello Trantino and her partner, the lawyer (and self-taught agronomist)...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Tenuta Boccarossa: All roads lead (back) to Mt Etna

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In a prior discussion of winemaking on Mt Etna , I characterized the environment as "a patchwork of identities and experiences ... dire...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Tasting selected Cabernet Sauvignon wines from the 1997 vintage, one of Napa's best

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Our team was so impressed with the 1997 Chateau Montelena at our last tasting that we immediately decided to explore that Napa vintage in g...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Milo (Catania, Sicily) context: The physical environment

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In this post I continue to provide context on the comune of Milo. I kicked off this series with an overview of the history and economics of ...