on the road
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From the Archives: A Wine Dude Takes on Premium Sake
Well, this one was a long time in coming (insert immature delayed orgasm jokes here). Back in 2022, during a trip to the Left Coast, Shannon, baby G and I stopped at one of my favorite non-wine Seattle haunts: Umi Sake House. No matter what…
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Cool Wines In Overly Hot Climes (Tasting Through Romagna’s Faenza)
Alllllriiiighty, folks… this will be my last feature entry on my 2023 media jaunt Romagna, this time focusing on the wines of Faenza (in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna). As cool as the wines of Romagna are, even I am kind of sick of talking…
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A Deep(er) Dive Into Romagna’s Forlì
While Predappio Sangiovese seems to get all the media love (hey, I’m guilty!), there’s quite a bit more to the region—Forlì—that birthed Romagna’s latest potential foray into DOCG territory. During my media visit to the region last year, we braved the record-breaking Summer heat wave…
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“Big Fruit” (Exploring Romagna’s Cesena… and One of the World’s Rarest Grape Varieties)
The words that I kept hearing (during a media trip to Italy’s Romagna region in the steamy Summer of 2023) from Cesena’s winemakers were “Big Fruit.” Located just to the south of Bertinoro, along the northern edge of the region, Cesena is dominated by clay…
