A DIAMOND NO LONGER IN THE ROUGH

By Karen MacNeil
February 2, 2017

In 1968, when Boots and Al Brounstein founded their winery Diamond Creek on Napa Valley’s… Continue reading

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Why is Wine So Hard to Describe?

“Based on chemistry, DNA, ancient texts, art, ethnography and experimental archaeology, it’s clear that as humans, we are set up as biological creatures to drink alcohol.”

—Dr. Patrick McGovern
Director of Biomolecular Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania,
and author of Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture