If you’ve seen any of my Instagram stories over the last couple of weeks you may know that I have been taking a little break from alcohol. I did not make a big thing of this because it didn’t seem like one. It’s certainly not permanent and it’s not because anything particularly bad or exciting happened. I just felt like it. Read the full article.
Thanks once again to M and his work, I had the opportunity to return to Florence — and this time, take a weekend trip to the Tuscan coast for a quick visit to Bolgheri. I have found Super Tuscans fascinating for about as long as I’ve known they exist (“ever since I knew they were real,” I suppose), and have wanted to do this trip for over a decade. In addition to breaking down in tears at the first sight of the coast at sunset I had several is this real life? moments over the course of our brief stay. Read the full article.
While considering marginal-climate winemaking this weekend as I study for the ever-more-largely-looming Master of Wine Stage One Assessment, I remembered a chat I had with Niagara Escarpment grower Don DeMaison years ago in which he described his dramatic transition from growing hybrid grapes to vinifera. Read the full article.
One of the aspects of the MW program I was most excited about was learning more about the parts of the wine world I’ve totally missed or neglected. I’ll be honest, though; it’s already brought plenty of opportunities to delve once again into my big passion, South African wine, and I’m not sorry about it. Read the full article.
In 2008 I started working in the wine industry and realized I wanted to learn everything I possibly could about wine. I wasn’t sure how to do this, being about to graduate with a degree in a completely unrelated field, but hey, there was a recession on, and jobs in the beverage business paid the bills. Read the full article.