In my latest article for Napa Valley Wine Academy, I was tasked with taking a detailed look at how changing wine consumer behaviors are impacting the on-premise world, and what the best on-premise pros are doing to ride the waves caused by those changing tides. Since I’ve never even really attempted to work on-premise and…
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Jumping (Back) Into the Wine Certification Debate for NVWA
Every so often, the idea of challenging the merit of earning wine certifications becomes de rigueur, and we start to see articles pop up meant to prod that debate. This is, I think, in part due (unfairly) to the ridiculous modern cultural war against expertise in general (there’s a very interesting book on the topic,…
Joe Vs. the Volcano (Exploring Etna Wines for NVWA)
As I finish up an excellent (though whirlwind) jaunt to Collio, my latest piece for Napa Valley Wine Academy has been published, focused (somewhat ironically, considering it’s at the opposite end of Italy from where I’ve just visited) on the wines and producers of Sicily’s Etna. The wine cognoscenti love to wax philosophically about “volcanic”…
Finding the “Hidden” Rhône for NVWA
You Rhône fans out there might be interested in my latest piece for Napa Valley Wine Academy (and one of the several reasons that I am deplorably behind on all of my other coverage here at 1WD): a closer glance at some of the more intriguing Villages added to NVWA’s Côtes du Rhône online wine…