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Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I spend each week trolling the web for everything published about wine online, and here’s everything that I think would be worth your valuable time. Climate change could redraw California wine country mapsIt already has. The maps haven’t caught up. Why …

spelio has added a photo to the pool: From Larry.. Maison JULIETTE Crozes-Hermitage 2014 Les Belles Terrasses from Manressa or maybe at the afternoon after the funeral.. Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/55304183296/in/pool-14289677@N00

The first thing you see when you walk into the foyer of Famille Joly – Coulee de Serrant in Savennières clearly sets the stage for everything that comes next. Joly makes wines of another age, as the ancient farm implements suggest, and the cow horns make the biodynamic focus clear. You’re likely to be greeted by a member of the …

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Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up on my doorstep asking to be tasted. I’m pleased to bring you the latest installment of Vinography Unboxed, where I highlight some of the better bottles that have arrived recently. This past week included a couple of Napa’s best white wines in the form …

Foto Fricassee has added a photo to the pool: Mouth of Duoro River. Barrel-carrying boat outside of Gaia, by the Port wine cellars. Evening. Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/herbieb/55443520129/in/pool-17918700@N00

Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I spend each week trolling the web for everything published about wine online, and here’s everything that I think would be worth your valuable time. These Winemakers Are Starting Over. Will the Third Time Be the Charm?I hope so. Regan is …

Ruben Holthuijsen has added a photo to the pool: View of the Rock of Solutré (Roche de Solutré) surrounded by vineyards in France. Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/rubenholthuijsen/55458514955/in/pool-52609756@N00

You know what’s better than a wine tasting event that features some really excellent producers of low-intervention wines? Two days of that kind of event plus some thought-provoking panel sessions to go along with it. That’s what you’re going to get this coming weekend with the Unfiltered Wine Festival hosted at Donkey & Goat Winery in Berkeley. Billed as “A …

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The Savennières appellation is one of the Loire’s smallest, both in its overall size (roughly 350 hectares) and in its plantings, as only around 170 of those hectares are planted. Consequently, there’s no such thing as a spare vine when it comes to the region’s energetic and delicious Chenin Blanc. These two vines out front at Domaine du Closel might …

Focus stack (12 images) Shot with two off-camera flashes. (Godox AS200Pro/XPro II L trigger). Flash A bare bulb, mounted on overhead boom, bounce off 32 inch white umbrella with 8 x 12 inch flag one bottle. Flash B modified with MagBeam and gobo.   Shot for Crazy Tuesday – BOTTLE STOPPERS.     Done Source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/99228543@N04/55424434468/in/pool-912056@N21

Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up on my doorstep asking to be tasted. I’m pleased to bring you the latest installment of Vinography Unboxed, where I highlight some of the better bottles that have arrived recently. This past week I tried two more of the current releases from Raventos i …

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A new episode of the I’ll Drink to That! wine talk podcast was released recently. Episode 504 features Cory Empting. Cory oversees Harlan Estate, BOND, Promontory, and The Mascot, all in the Napa Valley, in his role as Managing Director of Winegrowing at Domain H. William Harlan. Wildfires threatened the lives of Cory Empting’s family in 2017. Less importantly but also significantly, …

The top photo was taken from the bus as we made our way from our Douro River cruise ship up and inland to our tour in Lamego. I did not realize at the time that the Douro River was in a deep ravine between the winery and the buildings in the background.   The bottom photo shows the winery as …

Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I spend each week trolling the web for everything published about wine online, and here’s everything that I think would be worth your valuable time. Highway to Hella CheninA review of an excellent event. Remembering Italian Winemaker Franco BernabeiNot well known …

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One of the strangely most predictable signs that I’m going to enjoy the wines at a winery I’ve just walked into for the first time is a solid lineup of “dead soldiers” – empty wine bottles side-by-side representing a wide variety of wines from all over the world. Most often these bottles show up above ground, but on rare occasions, …