VALENTINE POLITICS: The Chocolate and Cabernet Debate Just Doesn’t Go Away
About this time of year, some wineries in the Napa Valley, where I live, start heralding cabernet as the perfect wine with chocolate. I know what I think (and will share in a minute), but since this issue just won’t go away, we decided to ask some Napa Valley vintners...
HERE IT IS: WINESPEED’S WINE OF THE YEAR 2019
It’s been a phenomenal year. Over the course of 52 editions of WineSpeed,The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
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Guest Blog by Anne-Marie Failla Note from Karen: Anne-Marie Failla, The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
Vinous Ciders for Wine and Cider Lovers Alike
Guest Blog by Carrie Dyke Note from Karen: Writer Carrie Dykes explores the fascinating new world of vinous ciders in this guest blog. Try one of her recommendations below. A vinous cider is a combination of cider apples and wine grapes. Vinous ciders can be produced...
DO OLD VINES MATTER?
I once found myself staring at a grenache vineyard in the southernThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
Truly Hard to Swallow
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Napa Valley’s Top Cabernet Sauvignons
The 75th Anniversary of the Napa Valley Vintners seemsThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
OK, So It’s Not a Volcano!
Note from Karen MacNeil: My friend the geologist David Howell, a former scientist with the United States Geologic Survey and now a visiting instructor on geology and wines at Stanford University, has become our go-to expert for all questions related to geology. And if...
The Delicious “Sister” of Brunello di Montalcino
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Amount (in thousands of US$) paid at auction for a single bottle of 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, the red wine that came in first in the 1976 Judgment of Paris tasting fifty years ago. The bottle, sold by Christie’s auction house, was The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
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