Vinography

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Opportunities to taste top Burgundy wines in San Francisco are rare and getting rarer.

A mysterious artifact behind the winery at Mateus Nicolau de Almeida in the Douro Superior region, with a hillside of old vines and the roofs of Vila Nova de Foz Côa peeking over the hill.

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I had the good fortune last week of being invited to the home of a wine collector in San Francisco who is obsessed with older California wines.

Let’s keep the autumn vibe going this week, shall we?

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This past July 28th, the wine world mourned the death of pioneering winegrower David Hirsch, who showed the California wine industry, and the wider world, that Pinot Noir could be grown brilliantly a mere 3 miles from the chilly Pacific Ocean in the shadow

The Douro Valley is one of the most jaw-dropping slices of wine country to be found anywhere on earth.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve picked up a bottle of wine that had the words “old vines,” “vieilles vignes,” or “vigna vecchia” on the label and turned it around to find absolutely no further information about the vineyard that produced it.

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When one of the world’s most talented and ambitious winemakers decides to lay out what sounds like a grand unified field theory for making great wine, you shut your mouth and listen.

One of the most spectacular and unexpected terroirs in the world can be found in the midst of one of Europe’s largest cities.

The purpose of any honest writing competition can only be to support and encourage the craft and industry of writing.

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A wall of vines appears out of the morning fog across the Mosel River in Germany.

Despite the fading evening light on Lankershim Boulevard, I had to squint a bit in the dim light of the club.

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A spring-green view of the home vineyard at William Downie’s Guendulain Farm in the Gippsland sub-region of Victoria, Australia, where he stubbornly works to produce Pinot Noir that meets his high standards in very challenging conditions.

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In 1996, after long careers working in Napa’s wine industry, John Skupny and his wife Tracey did something quietly radical: they started a small wine label dedicated exclusively to Cabernet Franc.

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The well-used work board at Bass Phillip Estate in the Gippsland Region of Victoria, Australia easily earns the label of palimpsest, a surface (originally a skin or parchment) which bears the traces of much previous writing and erasing.

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This is Part II of a lengthy piece on South African wine.

Way out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the Azores Islands of Portugal host a remarkable and distinctive approach to viticulture.

There aren’t many tastings in California where the wine trade lines up more than an hour in advance of the doors opening.

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Some creative stonework greets visitors at the ArmAs winery in the Aragatsotn region of Armenia, carrying on a tradition of wine representation stretching back more than a millennium.

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Dramatic skies make for a beautiful evening above vineyards near Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Aligoté is having a moment.

That’s not just a headline designed to attract attention.

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Morning light rakes across the front of the hill of Somló, highlighting one of the hundreds of small buildings that winemakers often have in their vineyards.

No one, including me, pays enough attention to Santa Barbara Wine Country.

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The wine world is full of organizations and associations, spanning a wide range of missions, purposes, and themes.