Tweet I believe pinot can pair with anything. So many styles – light to heavy – and so many aromas – gamey to floral – make it endlessly adaptable. In this upcoming blog series I’m going to put my belief to the test. Can pinot pair with poached egg and asparagus? How about calf heart? [...]
Tweet Matos St. George cheese. But I repeat myself. Matos only makes one cheese, so that’s like saying Petrus Merlot blend. Semi-firm, nutty, creamy, heaven. And getting to Matos Cheese Factory is as much of an experience as eating it. Words don’t do it justice. The long driveway past the vines and the cows. The [...]
Tweet Ah, Facebook. In 2008 in Wine: A Global Business (Second Edition), I wrote the following about Facebook: Currently wineries are having a difficult time determining how best to take advantage of this communications channel. It may well be that the best way to leverage social networks and the vast amounts of data contained in [...]
Tweet John Williams of Frog’s Leap was recently profiled in the Atlantic, a relatively respected journal of our times. John is a fantastic winemaker, and he lives his green ethos like no one else in Napa, and perhaps in the entire industry. Yet even he finds himself getting annoyed by the questions from Atlantic environmental-advocate-cum-journalist [...]
