on the road
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Endangered Species: Santorini Wine Fights For Its Survival
“All this was green – from here until the sea.” George Koutsoyannopoulos has a round, friendly face that belies the seriousness of what he is telling me, one arm on the steering wheel of his “Volcan Wines mobile,” the other gesturing over me towards the…
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Terroir At The Edge Of The World (In The Vineyards of Santorini)
Peering out across the ancient caldera into the Agean from just about any spot on top of the beautiful Greek island of Santorini, you could be forgiven for mistaking the place for the edge of the world. And when I say “beautiful” I don’t mean…
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1WineDude TV Episode 14: Greece is the Word
In which Joe conducts a brief interview with Paris Sigalas, winemaker at Santorini’s Domaine Sigalas, and with the help of their eonologist attempts to translate the term “kick-ass” into Greek. Cheers!
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Walla Walla Syrah QED? and “Days of WA Future Past”
Has the case for excellent Walla Walla Syrah been definitively demonstrated? Q.E.D.? I’m not going to go quite that far. But I will say that they might be pretty damn close, especially in those cases where the balance beats out the brawn in their Syrah…
