Apr
2025

Latest Wine Headlines: April 14–20

categories: Booze, News

Hello my friends. Happy Spring, Easter, Holy Week, Passover—however and whatever you celebrate, I hope you enjoy it with good friends and shenanigans galore. For those celebrating a bit extra this weekend because, well, Easter and Orthodox Easter fall on the infamous 4/20—you’re in luck! My shameless self-promotion this week is a byline brag in Full Pour’s spring release. Where Wine Meets Weed is an exploration in the similarities between the aromas, flavors and structural components of both imbibes, meaning cross-category enjoyment can be possible. Yes, you can be both a wine and weed enthusiast. Read the full article online or download the PDF here.

And continue scrolling through for a lot of other news/newsy items from the last week, as well as fun facts like, alcohol can stay in your hair for 90 days. Yeah.

Silly comments are all my own. ✌️🥂

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Apr
2025

Byline Brag: Where Wine Meets Weed

categories: Buzzed

Just in time for 4/20 (which I realize is also Easter this year), you can now read my first feature in Full Pour Magazine. Where Wine Meets Weed is an exploration in the similarities between the aromas, flavors and structural components of both imbibes, meaning cross-category enjoyment can be possible. Yes, you can be both a wine and weed enthusiast.

IMAGES Kristiina Almy
IMAGES Kristiina Almy

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Apr
2025

Byline Brag: Green to Its Roots via Somm Journal

categories: Booze, Business, Viticulture and Winemaking (D1), Wine

What does sustainability even mean anymore? “It’s a broad term, isn’t it?” says Leslie Frank, cofounder of Frank Family Vineyards. “You’re hard pressed to find any landowner, vintner, or anyone in the wine industry who’s not ‘sustainable.’” But for Leslie and her husband Richard Frank, owning Napa’s third-oldest winery (and nationally registered historic landmark), stewarding over 380 acres of vineyard property, and crafting notable premium Napa wines “that spans from sparkling to Cabernet and everything in between,” means they continuously seek to improve business practices in an effort to better the life forces both below and above ground, within their local community and throughout the wine industry at large. “It’s our earth-to-bottle, green-to-our-roots philosophy,” says Leslie.

Somm Journal April/May Cover
Somm Journal April/May Cover

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Mar
2025

Latest Wine Headlines: March 23–28

categories: Booze, News, Wine

My friends, this week’s list is just as much for me as it is for you. I’ve been OOO the center of the week on an amazing field trip focused on Regenerative Organic Certified viticultural practices, diving deep into what it means not just in the field, but above ground as well—from animal welfare to the human impacts and, of course, the resulting wine style and quality. Tasty bits coming your way as I work on my assignments about this super important topic that’s become a dual personal and professional passion of mine.

With that in mind, I’ve very little time to read through the news, so these are some headlines that have captured my attention that I’ll need to circle back to myself to give a deeper read through.

Thanks homies!

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