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…
Uncorking Livermore Valley’s Best (Uncorked! 2025 Wine Competition Winners)
I feel as though I have a long history with a crap-ton of wine regions at this point… because, well, I do. Livermore Valley is one such region, and I was thrilled to get back there on a media jaunt late in 2024 after several years of being away. I can now top that off…
Humboldt Out of the Blue (Chile’s Cooling Current)
At this point, I think that Chilean wine is almost running out of marketing angles. To be fair, we’ve seen a whole hell of a lot of those angles over the years, and pretty much all of them have been true. Focusing on an ocean current, though, might be a bit of a stretch, even…
“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,…