Who Tells the Story While the Owner Is in the Cellar
Who Tells the Story While the Owner Is in the Cellar Harvest pulls the winemaker out of the tasting room
The number nobody prints
The Number Nobody Prints By Patrick R. Dunn The tasting room at Casque Wines sits on a flower farm outside
Thirty Seconds of Production
Most tasting rooms already brief before a shift. Reservations, large parties, stations, what is out of stock. None of it is about what the staff say to guests. During harvest the thing changing daily is not the logistics, it is the material.
Pour the Port Over the Ice Cream
I was ten years old in rural Maine and dessert came out of a saucepan. Dark chocolate melted down with
The Winery That Makes Friends
It was bubbles, that much I know, because bubbles are how Amista Vineyards starts every visit and there is a
Slow the Tasting Room Down on the Days It Fills Up
Insights Slow the Tasting Room Down on the Days It Fills Up Harvest is running early across California, the tasting
Nothing Went Wrong
Stories Nothing Went Wrong Two nights in Portland at a hotel that did everything correctly, and gave me no reason
Why I’ll Always Be a Storyteller
The Pour Story Society Why I’ll Always Be a Storyteller By Patrick R. Dunn The table in West Gardiner, Maine.
The Ask Nobody Assigned
The club conversation in most tasting rooms happens only when the guest starts it. What it takes to change that: stories worth telling, a host who can read when the room will take the ask, five occasions to hold it, and a different order entirely on event days.
Everything but the Cabernet
A blindfolded tasting on a foggy deck above Windsor, led by a blind chemist, and the one wine I got right.