Last January I touched down in Queenstown, Central Otago to participate in what proved to be a week full of pinot noir revelations and insights. The Idea and Context My last visit was seven years ago, and progress was palpable. The occasion was the
This month, the GOW team attended a portfolio tasting at Trialto wines in Vancouver. We tasted some wines and shot some videos of the winemakers, owners and representatives of the wines. DJ Kearney summarises each of the wines featured and grouped
Would it surprise you to learn that awarding platinum medals is a delightfully effortless part of wine competition judging? It goes without saying that platinum medals are highly coveted and scarce. They’re only given to truly outstanding wines
Thank you, Rioja. Thank you for 150+ years of history and evolution and for collectively insisting on higher quality under recent wine law tweaks and for being steadfast in your identity, but mostly for giving us wonderful bright and burnished wines to
Sideways, Bottle Shock, Mondovino, SOMM 1 and 2, A Year In Burgundy, and now Sour Grapes - wine movies have clearly moved into the mainstream. Never has there been so much interest in the machinations of the wine world, and especially the seemingly cloaked
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