Last week I stopped by Tony Coturri in Sonoma and we tasted (the new vintages are beautiful) and talked about the current state of natural and goût de souris—the retronasal... read more →
I wrote about this a few months in the newsletter and it still shocks me that ageability is questioned....here's a taste of what went down: * All myths have... read more →
Happy to announce that The Dirty Wine to Guide was one of five books Eric Asimov suggested for holiday gifting. He used the words exhilarating, useful and important. So, in a... read more →
“Veronelli is not your kind of thing, is he?” Lorena Ascencios, the grande dame wine buyer of Astor Wines, asked me this before a Chateau Le Puy tasting. I looked at her wide-eyed... read more →
Last week I received a random, really random, email from a woman who needed help. She wanted something to go with Thanksgiving salmon and was told to buy Caymus (didn’t... read more →
Outside of RAW 2016, eating, drinking, and funning. Overwhelmed looking at the list of people showing wines at RAW 2017? When I look through who I've written about in TFL... read more →
T.Puzelat was still standing the night before the New Wine Festival. Here he is with Soliko of Our Wine. This was the celebration after another wine tasting, Zero Compromise,... read more →
On a Monday in June in McMinnville, something super cool happened. Post-tasting clean-up. There was a superb greet, drink and pick up a copy of Dirty Guide to Wine gathering... read more →
“The Joys of Processed Wine and Ignore the Snobs, Drink the Cheap, Delicious Wine” was the two-titled opinion piece from writer Bianca Bosker. It appeared in last week’s New York Times.... read more →
I came to caring about Jews and wine early in life but I came to Aszu, the great botrytized wine of Hungary late. I was working for VOS, trying to... read more →