on the road
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Northern Spain’s “Small California” (Spotlight On Somontano)
[ Editor’s note: Following is a piece that a wrote for a magazine, but after waiting over a year for them to publish it and pay me, I’m giving up and putting it here so that it can see the light of day and you…
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No Bullsh*t Wine (Cowhorn Vineyard Recent Releases)
One could be forgiven for expecting an overdose of “yes, I did in fact write those checks” bullsh*t when visiting Cowhorn Vineyard & Garden in Oregon’s Applegate Valley, based solely on the facts that a) it takes its name from the most infamous preparation (#500,…
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The Good Sh*t (Biodynamic Preparations At Troon Vineyard)
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), who founded the farming practices now known under the certification of Biodynamics, was largely full of sh*t. For example, Steiner was all about making wild claims based on anonymous sources long before it became the new standard of presidential tweeting in the…
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Oregon Wine Experience 2018 Competition – Results
The results of the 2018 Oregon Wine Experience Competition are in and have recently been announced, and since I was more-or-less directly responsible for said results, I thought that I’d share some of them with you all here. Before I do, however… a couple of…
