Do you dream of firm, lean, hard-bodied wines with dry, tannic, earthy/tobacco aromas and flavours? Or do you prefer voluptuous, round, balanced wines with ripe, black cherry fruit and smoky/gamey, plum and licorice aromas wrapped in a spicy, toasted-vanilla
Warm evenings, warmer days and extremely low humidity has led to an accelerated ripening cycle; grapes are shrivelling and ripening all at once. In 2002, what looks to be a high-quality harvest has been severely compressed into about a four-week period. In
If, like me, you believe the world is getting smaller and smaller, it could explain why an obscure grape like syrah, or should I say shiraz, has come to be so popular, so quickly in the new millennium. Certainly, it is the world's fastest growing grape
We'd be lying if we shouted that California chardonnay is making a comeback because frankly although the style has changed it's never really gone out of fashion. Oh sure, some trade types have been mumbling about an ABC or "anything but chardonnay" movement
In Seattle just over a year ago, the wide-ranging membership of the Washington Wine Quality Alliance, or WWQA, marked its first anniversary by doing something audacious: they doubled the levy applied to each gallon of wine they sell to give the commission
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