This week, instead of reviewing a wine, I’m going to give you a review of wine’s role in our lives, as drinkers, and in the lives of those who toil their own land to produce it. Sort of. I recently worked my way through a review copy of a comic (sorry, sorry, graphic novel!) about…
Category: wine books
Finger Lakes Feature Wins International Wine Book Of The Year
Today, a quick-hit to tell you that my friend Evan Dawson’s recently-released book Summer in a Glass: The Coming of Age of Winemaking in the Finger Lakes just took home the award for “International Wine Book of the Year”at the 2012 Louis Roederer Wine Writing Awards. I am personally thrilled for Evan, who is having…
Wine Between The Covers (3 Wine Books For Oenophiles To Grab Before The Summer Reading Season Ends)
There’s still time, people. Summer’s muggy, sunny weeks are not yet entirely on the wane. They’re just mostly on the wane. And so those bibliophile oenophiles who are looking for last-minute beach-side vacation or porch-side stay-cation reading to accompany a cold glass of Italian Vermentino in the hazy heat (you are drinking Vermentino, right?) still have…
The Most-Viewed Photo Of All Time? It’s From Wine Country…
If you’ve ever used a Microsoft Windows computer PC (which I’m guessing is a group that includes 99.999% of the people reading this, even the Mactards), chances are very good that you’ve seen this image. It’s called Bliss and was taken by Napa “are we sick of hearing about this place yet” Valley resident and…