Oh Canada
Recently, I was in Ontario at the International Cool Climate Chardonnay CelebrationThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
Oh Canada
Recently, I was in Ontario at the International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration to give the keynoteThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
The End of Nature?
If any industry should be panicked by Donald Trump’s decision to disengage the United States from the Paris climate accord, it is our own. That decision—as depressing, infuriating, and frightening as it was—was also something more. It was a step toward the negation...
Erogenous Zones, Monks, and the Mystery of Wine
For the approximate 8,000 years of wine’s existence, terroir has been the underlying principle by which great wines are “explained.” I put explained in quotes because of course wine has never been explained. While some of the more practical details of winemaking are...
Edition 163—A New Edification of Krug
Earlier this year, Margareth (Maggie) Henriquez, the President and CEO of Krug Champagne, came to my office, a few bottles of Krug in tow. (Now that’s my idea of a business meeting). In rapid fire speech, she began to explain something that I’ve never...
“Wine, land, agricultural skills, and entrepreneurship are gifts from God—the CreatorThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.