Join Us for Come Over October!
Come Over October is an international movement encouraging wine drinkers to invite a friend, a colleague, a neighbor, to “come over” and share some wine in October. The campaign honors wine’s 8000-year history as the beverage that brings people together. The campaign...
HIDING GUILT AND RACISM
I live in California which has the highest share of undocumented crop workers in the country. But California is not alone. In the U.S. as a whole, 42% of agricultural workers are undocumented according to the USDA. This is way up from 1989 when just 14% were. But here...
What I Wish I Could Tell the Surgeon General
My parents, like so many of the generation who became parents in the 1940s and 50s, drank spirits—in their case, Seagrams whiskey highballs. They drank a lot of them. Too many in fact. As a result, I grew up wary of alcohol. Then, as a young woman out on my own, I...
I HOPE I REMEMBER THIS NIGHT
I wrote the following poem on the evening of September 21,2022 after attending a “Conversation” at Ashes & Diamonds winery in the Napa Valley. The presentation—by five winemakers—centered around the topic of sustainability. But, as tears in the audience revealed,...
NOTHING LEFT TO SAY?
I have been a wine writer for nearly 40 years. And yet, for the first time in my career, I’m worried. Despondent even. Wine writing as a profession, a craft, even sometimes an art, is disappearing. And it’s not clear what, if anything, will replace it. I recently gave...
The Origin of the 750ml Wine Bottle
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