A Sparkling Wine Movement in the Pacific Northwest

Mary Cressler
Features
9 min read
There is a wine movement happening in the Pacific Northwest and it’s probably not what you’re thinking. It’s not pinot noir in Oregon. That happened years ago. And no, it’s not merlot in Washington. It’s sparkling wine. Though there are no exact numbers to show how many producers are currently

The ones that (nearly) got away

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
3 min read
People who write about wine seem to have a really bad habit of navel-gazing. I know of few other sectors where so many column inches are devoted to what wine writers should be writing about – and how. My reaction is simple - who cares? Wine lovers/geeks/connoisseurs are enough of

Super Bordeaux? Bordelais experiment with Syrah

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
4 min read
Thomas Duroux, winemaker at Château Palmer, likes to add some young Syrah wine from the Rhone to that made at his Margaux estate wine to construct a special cuvée. So does Caroline Frey down the road at Château La Lagune. Consultants/winemakers Michel and Dany Rolland have experimented with the combination on

Do “hand-picked” grapes mean better wine?

Erika Szymanski
Features
6 min read
Stanford linguistic professor Dr. Dan Jurafsky's recent book on The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu includes a perspicacious observation about high-class versus budget restaurant menus. Explicit adjectives about yumminess are pretty much the sole purview of the bottom lot. Red Lobster will offer you flaky cod fillets hand-dipped