The Ascent of Elegance
Sometimes a word begins to creep ever more insistently into the wine zeitgeist. It’s happening… Continue reading
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Syrah, Unleashed
Like the kind of guy who wears cowboy boots with a tuxedo, syrah has a… Continue reading
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What Is a Sexy Wine?
Last week, WineSpeed reader Terry R. from Lincoln, California, wrote in with a question I’d… Continue reading
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A STORY—50+ YEARS OLD—REVEALED
Wine is connection. It’s a bridge to friendship, sometimes in the most improbable ways. Like… Continue reading
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Weingut Emmerich Knoll
In 2009, WineSpeed reader George Caloyannidis visited Emmerich Knoll, whose sensational grüner veltliner was the… Continue reading
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Sheer Deliciousness
By Karen MacNeil I’m guilty (like just about everyone else I know), of drinking Beaujolais… Continue reading
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How to Marry Rich
(And How to Help)
By Karen MacNeil Dungeness Crab season has just opened—the first time it’s opened before Thanksgiving… Continue reading
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Smoke Taint: What We Know
By Karen MacNeil October 24, 2017 N95 meant nothing to me three weeks ago. But… Continue reading
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Going Coastal—The Geology of California Cool
When a lot of people think about California, they think about bikinis. But when those… Continue reading
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Oh Canada
Recently, I was in Ontario at the International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration to give the… Continue reading
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The End of Nature?
If any industry should be panicked by Donald Trump’s decision to disengage the United States… Continue reading
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Erogenous Zones, Monks, and the Mystery of Wine
For the approximate 8,000 years of wine’s existence, terroir has been the underlying principle by… Continue reading
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