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Reverse Cowboy Psychology: Christian Tietje Cracks The Mourvedre Code At Paso’s Cypher Winery
Spending an hour of so over lunch with Cypher Winery’s self-proclaimed “Winemaker, Troublemaker, and Firestarter” Christian Tietje is a bit like experiencing a small vinous indoor dust devil. In the wake of this whirling dervish of a man, you are left with remnants of well-crafted…
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Wine As Bottled Poetry, Poetry As (Really Expensive) Bottled Wine
Wine has often inspired poetry (and still does – check out this example reviewed here a few short years ago), and in today’s case, waxing poetic about the most expensive wines that all of you out there have imbibed in turn inspired me to pull…
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Speak Low And Carry A Big Mourvèdre (The Boz Scaggs Interview)
What do you do after you’ve more-or-less totally conquered the R&B/Pop and Jazz worlds, and have become so successful in the music biz that one of your backup bands goes on to become a multi-platinum-record-selling act? In Boz Scaggs’s case, you start up a wine…
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Best Of The West: Has Pinot Noir Found A New Spiritual Home In West Sonoma Coast?
Burt Williams might speak softly and have a relatively unassuming appearance, but when it comes to age-worthy, elegant Pinot Noir he is one hundred percent deadly Jedi Knight. That much was clear during the recent West Of West festival in Occidental, CA (I attended as…
