Category: Booze

Wine reviews, pairings, events, and getaways


Mar
2025

Latest Wine Headlines: March 7–14

categories: Booze, News, Wine

Hello my friends. Now full disclosure, there’s a lot on the list this week. And my snarky comments get, well, quite snarky. You have been warned.

Also, a bit of shameless self-promo: If you’ve not checked out my latest article on GuildSomm, Vermouth Past & Present, this was a fun one to study explore. I have to give a high-five and shoutout to my girl Kara Newman, spirits writer extraordinare, who hooked me up with some stellar producers who helped me grasp the history and current state of the category as well as Liz Pirnat, spirits educator for the NVWA, who hooked me up with some L1 basics on the topic. Thanks ladies!

I also have to say that, while I always listen to and enjoy the GuildSomm podcast, I was thrilled to hear Chris Tanghe’s intro this week. Glad you liked the piece, Chris!

Oh! One last thing I promise, but be on the lookout on my socials: I recently guest-starred on a podcast myself and will be sharing that about town.

Ok, that’s enough of that. Get to scrolling, clicking, reading and coming up with your own snarky comments. (Or, please, respond to mine! 😜)

Snarky comments are all my own. ✌️🥂

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Mar
2025

Latest Wine Headlines: March 1–7

categories: Booze, News

Here we are, end of another week and, if you’re like me, lots of catching up to do with the news. No surprise, the leading headlines are all about the tariff conundrum. This may sound naive, but, can’t we all just get along?

You’ll also find some shameless self-promotion, some great scientific studies, and more.

Buona lettura.

Snarky comments are all my own. ✌️🥂

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Mar
2025

Byline Brag: Does it White Wine?

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

For the March/April Spring issue of Sonoma Magazine, I had the pleasure of highlighting one of my favorite local Sonoma winemakers, Cindy Cosco. Take a trip on the way back machine and scroll through this website to its beginnings (I delete nothing lol), and you’ll see she’s one of the first folks kind enough to send me samples to review on, what was then, a new platform. Since then, we’ve become very good friends. So I was thrilled at the opportunity to write about some of the new, innovative things this lady is working on at the moment.

Does it White Wine?

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Mar
2025

Latest Wine Headlines: February 25–February 28

categories: Booze, News

Good Saturday morning to you. As you open this, hopefully cozy in your humble abode, I am up bright and early ready to teach my WSET Level 1 class at the NVWA. I love teaching these lower-level wine education courses. They’re super fun and engaging and there’s a kind of thrill being the person who’s introducing a room full of wine newbies to what could be their next passion—personal or professional. I usually get the most interesting and insightful questions in these classes. It challenges me, keeps me on my feet, and can also be quite humbling.

Enjoy this week’s list of newsy items.

Snarky comments are all my own. ✌️🥂

Trail of books
How to kidnap me: Leave a trail of books.

 

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