I don’t get an opportunity to highlight items from the sample pool here on these virtual pages as much as I would like these days (reason: toddler). But I am putting in ye ol’ college try to do so for this one. I might also be setting a personal record for the use of parenthesis…
Category: sexy wines
HEY STELLA!!!! (Tenuta Stella Recent Releases)
HEY STELLA!!!! So… turns out that line is a lot more fun to yell at your laptop screen before a Zoom tasting than it is to explain afterwards to your family, who just kind of stare at you instead of responding with the only appropriate reply (“You gonna get the law on you!“). Which, ok,…
“The World’s Oldest Startup” (Catching Up With Livermore Valley’s Wente Family)
At this point, I think that I’ve met most of the 5th generation of the Wente family (including jamming with Winegrower & Chief Land and Supply Officer Karl Wente at his then unfinished house several years ago, which is just the kind of thing that happens to people like me on wine travels, I guess)….
“The Biggest Fear” (Catching Up With Bolgheri’s Tenuta Argentiera)
“We want to have elegance be the main focus of our wines. The biggest fear for me is over-extraction.” Tenuta Argentiera winemaker Nicolò Carrara is right to be a little afraid. He is dealing with ripening and fermenting grapes in Tuscany’s Bolgheri, after all, where sunlight and the potential for big levels of ripeness—not to…