I’m excited to share something that I’ve been working on over the past several weeks (months?), which is one of the first available tasting reports at Cristaldi & Co. Spearheaded by my longtime friend, biz partner, and super-cool Decanter writer buddy Jonathan Cristaldi, this tasting report covers 9 Livermore Valley wineries and 160+ of their…
Category: wine publications
“A Giant Mess”: Navigating Tariffs for Decanter
A quick note today to tell you about a bit of content that I helped pen for Decanter: Ostensibly, this is a promotional feature, but it’s not so much promotion-y as it is topical, highlighting what wine importers (and, ultimately, consumers) are dealing with during this freakish time of tariff war uncertainty. It’s also, technically,…
Calling BS on the Attack on Wine (at Cristaldi & Co)
A quick update today to highlight a piece that helped pen for the launch of Cristaldi & Co. (helmed by my brother-from-another-muthah Jonathan Cristaldi). You’ll be seeing a lot more about that in the coming months, as Jonathan and I work on content and tasting reports for under-served wine regions (if you’re on the inside…
R(osé)-E-S-P-E-C-T (Giving Modern Rosé Wine the Love It Deserves at NVWA)
Please excuse this brief interruption to your day drinking to let you know that my latest (and penultimate) piece for Napa Valley Wine Academy’s Pouring Points is now live: What Can We Learn from the World’s Top Rosé Wines? In said op-ed, I take a look at what I perceive to be the unfair treatment…