Tweet Ahh, Alice. It’s been a few years since Alice Feiring and I first met at the Healdsburg Wine Library where she read from her book, The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization. Though I walked away from our encounter convinced she was misguided and hypocritical in her [...]

Tweet Natural Wine Remy Charest has a wonderful piece on Natural Wine over at Palate Press. A must read for some much needed balance on the issue of what is and is not “natural”. My take: Making a wine without sulfur is crazy if you want consistency in your product. I’m not speaking of vintage [...]

Tweet In honor of Alice Fiering’s recent call to dump the whole of California’s wine production down the nearest sewer pipe, I thought it might be fitting to look back in time to a period where France didn’t have a defender as vocal and virtuous as Alice. A time when the headlines screamed disarray for [...]

Tweet From a comment on Tom Wark’s most recent post ($50,000,000). The last thing this world needs is a presumptuous prick like you telling everyone else that a system thats worked great for 70 years is corrupt. You think you’ve got this figured out don’t you. If there weren’t any wholesalers you and your faggy [...]

Tweet I’m going to interrupt my pinot recipe series here. My apologies in advance for slipping back into wine marketing, but it’s what I’ve been dealing with all week and I thought I’d share. Wine Packaging is Sad I’ll get this out of the way right up front – direct to consumer wine packaging is [...]