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Prohibition- thirteen year hiatus
In a popular World War 1 song, “The Alcoholic Blues”, a veteran laments: “I wouldn’t mind to live forever in a trench, if my daily thirst they let me...
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09AugRead MorePut a lid on it!
Cork has been the preferred choice of vintners to seal bottles ever since they started using glass to store their wine back in the 1400s. The time-tested stopper is...
14JulRead MoreAu naturel?
These days, popular opinion on wine making is as divided as the political landscape with passionate proponents of “natural wine” versus “modern wine”. The polarization between the two sides...
03JunRead MoreIt’s not just about the soil…
Terroir, derivative of the medieval word terratorium, simply means land and or region in French. In winemakers’ parlance, however, it...
19AprRead MoreItalian wines rekindle their California heritage
French immigration to California predated any substantial influx of Italians to the State. Following the turmoil of the French Revolution in 1789, a substantial French exodus took place in...
07MarRead MoreA matter of taste
In the words of the celebrated American author, Mark Twain: “One Holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of...
25FebRead MoreThe shape of wine
Winemaking is an old art – it began even before any form of writing existed ever since a long forgotten tribe pressed grapes in a cave in the Caucasus...
08FebRead MoreThe forgotten matriarch of champagne – Madame Clicquot (1777-1866)
If it wasn’t for Clicquot, we might still be drinking cloudy champagne! Veuve Clicquot is a sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region of France primarily from the varietals...
13JanRead MoreWhat a fiasco!
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word fiasco means “a complete failure, especially a ludicrous or a humiliating one”. It is a derivative of the Italian phrase fare...
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