My latest piece for Napa Valley Wine Academy’s Pouring Points is live, and in it I pull no punches when it comes to defending pink vino: What Can We Learn from the World’s Top Rosé Wines?. The short version of the story: I’m sick and tired of the wine world treating Rosé like wine’s troubled…
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Washington Wine is NOW
Good morning, campers! While I am en route to Sicily (again!) for a mix of business and pleasure, here’s a quick-hit to let you know that my latest piece for Napa Valley Wine Academy is now live: The Rising Impact of Washington State’s Wine Scene. In this article, I make a brief (but researched!) argument…
Riding the Waves of Wine Change With On-Premise Pros (NVWA)
In my latest article for Napa Valley Wine Academy, I was tasked with taking a detailed look at how changing wine consumer behaviors are impacting the on-premise world, and what the best on-premise pros are doing to ride the waves caused by those changing tides. Since I’ve never even really attempted to work on-premise and…
Jumping (Back) Into the Wine Certification Debate for NVWA
Every so often, the idea of challenging the merit of earning wine certifications becomes de rigueur, and we start to see articles pop up meant to prod that debate. This is, I think, in part due (unfairly) to the ridiculous modern cultural war against expertise in general (there’s a very interesting book on the topic,…