In my experience, most people don’t know Jack about Prosecco, despite the fact that we drink metric tons of it (pre-Covid 2019 saw some of the best sales numbers ever for the stuff). Which, generally, is just fine; most Prosecco isn’t worth getting to know deeply. Not that it’s bad, mind you (thankfully, Prosecco seems…
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Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 22: Who’s Down With BPC? (Bruno Paillard Champagne Tasting)
I think that we can forgive Alice Paillard, of Bruno Paillard Champagne, for being opinionated. As the daughter of the eponymously named BPC’s founder, she’s basically had a lifetime of working with someone who himself is, well, opinionated about Champagne. According to Alice (with whom I tasted through a few BPC samples as part of…
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 21: Touchable (Tasting Untouched By Light)
Well, this one was… different! Last year, I was invited to (virtually) taste a brand new wine release, during its world premier unveiling event. The star of what turned out to be the slightly bizarre show was the 2016 – and inaugural – vintage of Untouched by Light by Slovenian producer Radgonske Gorice (who have…
Wine in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 20: Cocktail Hour!
For many months since COVID-19 SiP rules and guidelines have prevented us wine industry folk from gathering live and in-person, we’ve been mixing it up by tasting samples simultaneously and meeting virtually via Zoom. In the case of the event that stars as the topic of today’s entry, however, we were literally mixing it up…
