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…
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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,…
Joe Vs. the Volcano (Exploring Etna Wines for NVWA)
As I finish up an excellent (though whirlwind) jaunt to Collio, my latest piece for Napa Valley Wine Academy has been published, focused (somewhat ironically, considering it’s at the opposite end of Italy from where I’ve just visited) on the wines and producers of Sicily’s Etna. The wine cognoscenti love to wax philosophically about “volcanic”…