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Sampling Portugal’s Very Best (Icon & Premium Wines Tasting from Wine Future 2023)
Let’s travel back in time about six months or so, to when I almost lost my mind because I got to meet hard rock legend Iron F*CKING Maiden’s Bruce F*CKING Dickinson at the Wine Future 2023 conference, held in Coimbra, Portugal. Admittedly, that was indeed…
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“Not Beholden to Anybody” (Exploring New Mexico’s Modern Wine Scene, Part 2)
Welcome to Part 2 of my coverage of the modern New Mexico wine scene, from a media tour I took of the southern NM wine producing last year (2023). If you haven’t done it yet, check out Part 1 to get up to speed! Amaro…
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“Continuous Legal and Illegal Means” (Exploring New Mexico’s Modern Wine Scene, Part 1)
A quick warning: this will be a rather long feature post. Also, those with arachnophobia may want to proceed with caution. The rest of you lushes? Welcome to the wines of New Mexico. Longtime 1WD readers already know that I have a penchant for making…
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Grenache By Any Other Name (Madrevite Recent Releases)
Madrevite‘s Nicola Chiucchiurlotto has one of those made-for-TV-movie prodigal son type of stories that seem so prevalent in the wine world. In 2003, Chiucchiurlotto founded Madrevite in Castiglione del Lago, which sits in the hills near lakes Trasimeno and Chiusi, along the Umbria/Tuscany border. In…








