Summer’s almost over. Yeah, I said it. Yeah, it’s mildly depressing. Yeah, it’s a good excuse to drink. For those of you within the mailing address sphere of supermarket chain PUBLIX, you can find my latest contribution to their wine-focused magazine, Grape, in the soon-to-be-released Fall 2015 issue. Therein, among other things, we revisit the…
Category: wine publications
Boxed In (Talking Boxed Wine For Publix Grape Magazine, Summer 2015)
Supposedly, it is Spring. Here in the Philly area, however, we jumped from sub-40F evenings directly to sunny, 80+F afternoons and something like 12,000% humidity. So, Summer decided to crash the party early. A serendipitous time, therefore, is upon us during which to tell you of my contribution to the Summer 2015 edition of PUBLIX’s…
Born In The USA (My American Wine Scene Wine Picks For Italy’s Civilta del bere Magazine)
I’m not sure that we need any more proof that I am an idiot workaholic, but last week a wine magazine hit the newsstands in Italy with yet more evidence in support of that. During a (very) busy late Spring, I was contacted by my friend and co-judge in the 2013 Argentina Wine Awards, the…
Well, That Was Easy. Not. (“The Once And Future Of Crete” In August 2014 SOMM Journal)
My feature on the wines of the Greek isle of Crete is now available in the August 2014 issue of SOMM Journal. That twenty-two word sentence belies what has to be one of the longest paths to seeing something published that I’ve ever had to walk. Not that the folks at SOMM Journal / Tasting…