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Harlan at Half the Price? – The Stunning Wines of Lokoya

Harlan at Half the Price? – The Stunning Wines of Lokoya

by Karen MacNeil | Dec 7, 2016 | Featured, Wine Producers, Wine Recommendations

I have been searching for the right word for 48 hours. “Spellbinding” could work. For the wines are definitely that. But I think a truer word would be “pure.” In fact, the purity of Lokoya’s four cabernet sauvignons, all from different mountains in the Napa Valley, is...
Williams Selyem – Deep into Pinot Noir’s Heart of Darkness

Williams Selyem – Deep into Pinot Noir’s Heart of Darkness

by Karen MacNeil | Nov 2, 2016 | Featured, Tasting and Evaluating Wine, Wine Producers

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Peter Michael – California’s “Grand Cru” Revealed

Peter Michael – California’s “Grand Cru” Revealed

by Karen MacNeil | Oct 28, 2016 | Featured, Tasting and Evaluating Wine, Wine Producers

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Peter Michael – California’s “Grand Cru” Revealed

Peter Michael – California’s “Grand Cru” Revealed

by Karen MacNeil | Oct 28, 2016 | Featured, Tasting and Evaluating Wine, Wine Producers

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Back to the Future–The Amazing World of Long Meadow Ranch

Back to the Future–The Amazing World of Long Meadow Ranch

by Karen MacNeil | Apr 6, 2016 | Wine Producers

Recently, I spent the day with Ted Hall who I think is among the top ten game-changers advancing the culture of wine and food in America. Hall, a Stanford MBA and longtime McKinsey executive, owns Long Meadow Ranch, a culinary-vinosphere kind of project he started...
The Judge and The Master

The Judge and The Master

by Karen MacNeil | Jan 13, 2016 | Wine Producers, Wine Recommendations, Winemaking and Viticulture

“The clusters look like mice hanging upside down by their tails.” This was John Kongsgaard, describing his chardonnay grapes which are denuded on all sides of their leafy clothing and left entirely naked and exposed before they are picked. Kongsgaard, a man who many...
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