California wine
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Millennial Winemaking On Millennial Wine Drinking (The 1WineDude Hailey Trefethen Interview)
By now, you’ve heard of the Millennials. Much has been written about this next generation of wine consumers, who according to NPR average 80+ text messages a day, have more disposable income (excluding mortgages) than their parents, are just reaching the legal U.S. drinking age,…
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Turkey Talk: A Run-In with Pavo Wines
I know what you’re thinking: Man, I really hope that today’s 1WineDude post somehow combines the Acura Integra, InfoTech department payroll practices, farm animals, Lord of the Rings, marijuana, and estate-grown California Syrah! What can I say? Who loves ya, baby?!? On second thought, I…
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Minority Report: Ethnic Diversity & Small-Production Meet Up in Napa Cab
At a new, small California winery, an ethnically diverse pair are making low production Cabernet Sauvignon. Very, very good Cabernet, that is. For those of you who are playing along at home, I’m going to introduce this article with a bit of background, because it’s…
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Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc Strikes Back!
If you want to understand the changing palates of the California wine consumer (that’s consumers of CA wine, not wine consumers from CA… although those two populations can certainly overlap… ok, whatever), you need to understand peaches. That’s right. Peaches. Jill & Steve, the owners…
