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A quick update to let you know that another 2025 tasting report in which I had a hand in creating is now available on Cristaldi & Co., this time focusing on the under-served California wine region of Santa Barbara County.
10+ wineries and 150+ wines are deatured therein!…
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…
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…
The Force was, indeed, with us when we set out for San Francisco earlier this year, in part to break bread with two of my favorite wine industry pros: the talented, elegant, and award-winning Tonya Pitts of SF’s venerable One Market restaurant; and my partner in crime business, the irrepressible and dutiful wine scribe Jonathan…