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...
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Put a lid on it!
Cork has been the preferred choice of vintners to seal bottles ever since they started using glass to store their...
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Au naturel?
These days, popular opinion on wine making is as divided as the political landscape with passionate proponents of “natural wine”...
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It’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...
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Italian 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...
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A matter of taste
In the words of the celebrated American author, Mark Twain: “One Holds a bottle of red wine by the neck,...
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The shape of wine
Winemaking is an old art – it began even before any form of writing existed ever since a long forgotten...
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The 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...
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What a fiasco!
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word fiasco means “a complete failure, especially a ludicrous or a humiliating one”....
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