Tweet Eric Asimov writes about Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in his latest post, and relates some of the astronomical prices DRC wines are commanding in New York ($2400 a bottle). The site he links to for information on DRC is interesting and well written, though the author falls prey to some remarkable anthropomorphic hyperbole, even [...]

Tweet Dr. Andrew Waterhouse at UCD gave a talk on May 19th on his research into the effect of oxidation on wine chemistry. I didn’t attend the presentation, but the Trellis Alliance sent out an email with a link to his slides. In them he makes a provocative comment about a possible chemical explanation for [...]

Tweet Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch reports on a new web 2.0 startup called SuperOyster that will allow people to market and sell their spots in line on waiting lists. I think a service like this will do great business, and it has very provacative implications for cult/boutique wineries. While we can’t count on our [...]

Tweet There have been many mostly favorable posts throughout the wine blogoshpere on Randall Grahm’s talk given at the Terroir 06 conference (Wine Camp, Fermentation, Caveman). Few have noted John Buechsenstein’s talk given the day after that is partly in response to Grahm. In large part the reason is that Grahm made his remarks public [...]

Tweet I was Google-ing around and came across this post from last year by Alder at Vinography. Aside from giving my neighbor Joseph Swan great scores across the board, he also had this to say about our AVA in the comments section: For my money, most of the Sonoma Coast and Russian River Valley appellations [...]