In the immortal words of Kermit the frog, “it isn’t easy being green.” That’s especially true when you’re trying to hit sustainability targets in Italy’s rainiest—and therefore, one of its most disease-prone—winegrowing regions: Collio. During a (somewhat) recent media jaunt to the area, a handful of Collio’s winemakers described what it takes to make wines…
Category: elegant wines
A New Era (Dispatch From Collio, Part 2)
Generally, I am not at all a fan of most gender-focused/themed wine experiences. I mean, yes, we certainly need to support and call attention to groups of people who have been historically underrepresented in any given sphere such as wine, BUT… in my mind, we have winemakers. Some happen to identify as men, some as…
Give… Us… Friulano!! (Dispatch From Collio, Part 1)
Back in November (whatever, STFU, I’ve got a toddler!), I was fortunate enough to take part in a lovely little media jaunt to Italy’s far northeastern corner, to the small (5k square miles or so) region of Collio within Friuli Venezia Giulia. For the next few weeks, I’ll be highlighting the, well, highlights from that…
May the 4th Be With You (Tasting Skywalker’s 1st in SF, Among Other Things)
The Force was, indeed, with us when we set out for San Francisco earlier this year, in part to break bread with two of my favorite wine industry pros: the talented, elegant, and award-winning Tonya Pitts of SF’s venerable One Market restaurant; and my partner in crime business, the irrepressible and dutiful wine scribe Jonathan…