In Search of the Cynical Winemaker
vinography.com says:

I had a conversation the other night with a fellow wine writer that unsettled me. We were tasting a number of different wines, and comparing notes on a few that weren’t so hot, and that’s when she said something along the lines of “Can you believe how cynical these winemakers must be?”

At first, I wasn’t quite understanding what she meant, but as we talked, it became clear that she meant quite literally, that many winemakers in Napa are making wine that they know is bad, just because they think i

Worth the Effort
By Eric Asimov says: Asian restaurants should make a greater effort to improve their wine selections.
Oily Fingers and the Demise of an Intellectual Paradigm
Tom Wark says:

Word thatthe San Francisco Chronicle may close downif it can't find a buyer or lower its expenses considerably hit me like a ton of bricks. The news is emblematic of the general trend for daily newspapers in the face of increased competition from on-line information sources and the failing economy.

Still, being an avid consumer of media, the notion of the daily paper, pulp and all, going away strikes me as having considerable consequences for how we imbibers of information and news do our con

Malolactic Fermentation in February: Winemaker Journal for February 2009, by Jeff Miller

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byJeff MillerofArtisan Family of Wines(Red Côte Rosé, 7 Artisans, Sly Dog Cellars)

I haven’t written a journal entry for awhile, since things were pretty low key after the rush of harvest, and there wasn’t much to say. But things are beginning to pick up a bit.

For the 2008 vintage, it’s been something of a waiting game while the wines complete malolactic, or secondary, fermentation, the process where special bacteria convert the malic acid into lactic acid. For whites, differe

Bottle Shock shocked my enjoyment level… it was good!
vinesugar.com says: I’ve been far removed from the marketing noise of the wine industry and I prefer it that way. I hadn’t heard of the movieBottle Shockuntil I saw it at my local Blockbuster.

“Bottle Shock” is the story of Chateau Montelena in 1976 when it’s Chardonnay beat the French in a blind tasting. It was the major turning point for the American wine industry.

Any movie that centers around wine will inevitably get dubbed “Sideways 2″ which is unfortunate really. When you look back at Sideways, that movie was r

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Late with a Late Harvest
Micheal Seraphin says: I realized that January had literally come and gone and I had not made an entry for the month. This evening I was in the mood for something sweet. Fortunately, or not, I noticed that I had nothing sweet to eat in my apartment. I did, although, forget that I had a wine in my basement, and some wine on the sweeter side at that. I didn’t think I wanted a port, and when searching through my wine stock, I found this 2005 Late Harvest Chenin Blanc fromTerra Blanca. This wine came in my latest shipme