“…it is always good to question the terminology of our enthusiasms. We can say that wine is essentially female because it comes from the earth, and we don’t say ‘father earth.’ The best things are… Continue reading
“In the Willamette Valley, we are no longer simply trying to make a great wine. We are now just as concerned with revealing place. With Pinot Noir a single place (a vineyard) reveals extremely precise… Continue reading
“I don’t drink Chardonnay. I drink Mersault, Chablis, Puligny-Montrachet… things like that. Chardonnay is at its best when it shows its place. So, it has got to be grown in a great place.” —Dominique Lafon,… Continue reading
“The wine one drinks from one’s glass depends on a vast number of things that make it precisely what it is at the moment.” –Richard Olney (April 12, 1927-August 3, 1999) as reported in the… Continue reading
“We believe wine is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. It is a liquid food that has been part of civilization for 8,000 years. Wine has been praised for centuries… Continue reading
“Wine is an art where the winegrower gives himself the mission of achieving a passionate ‘creation of work’ that corresponds to his personal interpretation of his terroir. The winegrower is imbued with an ancestral knowledge… Continue reading
When we asked Carlo Mondavi what Solo per Amore meant (it’s the name of this week’s Wine to Know), here’s what he said: “’Solo per Amore’—’for the love of it’—has many meanings. The first is that… Continue reading
“What is the highest-touch style of winemaking? Not an industrial wine with a ton of additives, but a wine of beauty and authenticity that is totally reliant on people power to reach its full potential.… Continue reading
