Vermouth Past & Present: My latest piece for GuildSomm was a fun and challenging one, exploring an oft overlooked and under appreciated drinks category.
Category: Wine 101
Byline Brag: Does it White 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.
Byline Brag: The Path to Industry-Wide Adoption of Regenerative Viticulture
For regenerative viticulture to make a meaningful impact on the wine industry, it needs to be adopted by both boutique wineries and high-volume producers—can it be done?
Bringing you my latest published piece from SevenFifty Daily. While I work on sprucing up my portfolio page, I thought I’d just share it here in the blog roll. Many thanks in advance for reading and sharing!
Wine Enthusiast Digital Exclusive: Do Dry-Farmed Vines Make Better Wine?
“Liquor is worth fightin’ for, but water is worth dyin’ for.” Such is an old adage Ken Wright, owner and winemaker of Ken Wright Cellars in Carlton, Oregon, remembers from when he first came to the West Coast in the 1970s. “Water was already an issue,” he says. “When the population of an area cannot be supported by the natural annual rainfall, things get serious very quickly.”
WE Podcast Drop: What is Regenerative Viticulture?
Found on the Wine Enthusiast website and anywhere you listen to podcasts:
Just what is regenerative agriculture? It’s not just another trendy buzzword meant to entice consumers. It’s an ancient form of agriculture that is making its way back into mainstream farming. It’s successful, not only in producing and sustaining quality agricultural products, like wine grapes, but it’s also successful in combating climate change, the effects of drought, and (most commonly overlooked) creating a healthful environment for all living things within the farm—microorganisms, plants, animals, and people.
To help better understand this ancient form of farming, Senior editor Stacy Briscoe talks with Paul Dolan, chairman at Regenerative Organic Alliance, Elizabeth Whitlow, executive director at Regenerative Organic Alliance, Jordan Lonborg, viticulturist at Tablas Creek Vineyard and Meghan Siemers, sustainability manager at Gundlach Bundschu.