When crush arrives, the tasting room goes quiet
Thursday Insights Harvest does not arrive on a schedule that accommodates anyone. It comes when the Brix says it’s time, […]
The second afternoon
Oportuno, Rua do Comércio do Porto. Poças colheita 1967, Douro DOC. The first visit lasted about twenty minutes. We had
You Can’t Read a Room You’re Running Through
Sonoma is picking Pinot in July. Not as a curiosity. The first fruit came off the Russian River Valley on
The Fourth Wine
The event was Saturday, the day before the conference opened, which meant everyone drove themselves. Fourteen of us, in fourteen
A story only the owner can tell is a story the floor can’t use
The founder’s history sounds best when the founder tells it. That is the problem. Most tasting rooms run on part-time
Guess the Wine
San Diego had a few quiet days left. Comic-Con was almost on the city, and once it landed the Gaslamp
Why the Reserve Pinot Comes Out at 3:45
A tasting room host who opens something off the menu is doing one of two things, and no depletion report
The Last Four Bottles
The party was on a Sunday in the middle of July, out on the lawn behind the tasting room, the
The Saturation of the Map
The crease on the paper splits down the middle of Dry Creek Valley first. By three on a Saturday, the