Wine for the masses

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
4 min read
As a long-time wine journalist, I have always taken a laissez-faire attitude when it comes to wine production. I have declined to be outraged at “industrial” wine production of millions of bottles of low-priced wine, as long as the wine is not unhealthy and if the claims made on the

Seventh Annual Palate Press Grand Tasting

David Honig
Feature Stories
4 min read
Nearly one hundred fifty wine lovers came to the Seventh Annual Palate Press Grand Tasting, held in the home of our publisher, David Honig. The Palate Press Grand Tasting is a unique consumer-driven wine tasting event. More than two hundred wines were blind bagged and placed on tables throughout the

Forward to the Past: the wines of Terre di Pisa

Joe Roberts
Features
6 min read
Utter the word “Tuscany,” and your mind will likely conjure up images of rolling hills, sunny skies, and the dueling monocultures of olive groves and grapevines. And your mind would be right, because most of Tuscany looks exactly like stepping into a painting, photograph, or landscape shot from Under the

Recantina: The grape Napoleon didn’t like

Elisabetta Tosi
Feature Stories
4 min read
November can be quite agreeable in the Veneto countryside – if the temperature remains mild. A few weeks ago I was visiting a winery in the Treviso province, in Nervesa della Battaglia which is a village known for the bloody battle fought here in the First World War between the Italian

The thinned red wine

W. Blake Gray
Features
3 min read
Imagine if I could tell grapegrowers a way to produce more wine from the same vineyard that is also actually better. Happy Thanksgiving winegrowers, I'm here for you! There's another culprit to add to the list of reasons wines are unintentionally getting higher in alcohol: crop-thinning. This revelation comes from

What We’re Drinking – 2013 Shafer One Point Five

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Another gorgeous wine from Shafer. The color is deep and dark. Rich fruits explode on the nose, blueberries and blackberries, and a touch of black pepper. On the palate, blackberry, elderberry, dark chocolate and a hint of espresso lead, with highlights of raspberry singing out on the mid-palate. Tannins offer a