More People, More Wine
A few nights ago my family and I enjoyed dinner at a popular San Francisco restaurant. The ambience, food, and service were impeccable. Or so we thought. With our entrees my wife and I ordered a half bottle of 2009 Clos du Caillou Chateauneuf-du-Pape Les Safres. When the sommelier brought the bottle he presented the […]
Read More…If you think of yourself as someone who loves wine, and, maybe as importantly, someone who cares about the American wine industry, then Summer in a Glass: The Coming of Age of Winemaking in the Finger Lakes, Evan Dawson’s warm but incisive examination of New York State’s most important and fastest-growing wine region, is required reading. […]
Read More…The more wine labels I read, and I’m sure the count is in the thousands by now, the more I ask myself this not-so-simple question: what’s the point of all this? And by this I mean back labels, those often-unfortunate repositories of bad poetry, useless information, and misguided marketing. In the interests of marketing and […]
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