One year ago I packed up the car without a job and moved to wine country from Atlanta for a short stint as a harvest intern for Holdredge Wines based in Healdsburg, CA. As I have chronicled here on the blog and elsewhere on the internets my short time working with John Holdredge and the [...]
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Sonoma Coast Pinot is First Project for 2011 Vintage
The alignment of cool weather leading to later-than-average harvest timeframes and me getting back on my feet again after 8 weeks in a cast, has allowed me to kick off my own small lot wine-making projects that I thought were going to be delayed a year. I’m giddy with excitement. Thanks to some connections in [...]
2nd Annual Champagne Day is October 28, 2011
Let’s get this out on the table right away: Champagne is sparkling wine made via the traditional method (meaning the wine was fermented and aged in the same bottle creating its own bubbles during the process) ONLY in the Champagne region of France. I am sorry to say that this means that Cremant, Cava, Prosecco [...]
It’s All About.ME in Times Square
Here’s a pretty fun campaign and a chance to have this ugly mug up in Times Square. Ok, I’ll play along. I recently setup a profile on About.me as a nice one-stop-shop to share all my social media links and a little bit of information about me and what I do. On this page I [...]
When Drinking Pinot Noir, There are No Losers
One thing I learned from my college fraternity days amongst the paddle beatings, toga parties and sport/political dominance is that there are no losers and we are strongest when we stand together, work together and support each other. I think this was illustrated perfectly over the recent weeks of #PinotSmackdown when the world rallied around [...]
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