Real Wine was ahead of its time when it was first published in the year 2000. And by choosing to focus on a broad movement within the wine industry to return to more traditional methods of winemaking and viticulture (all valid and relevant issues today), it remains an important read for any serious and intellectually [...]
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Posted in natural wine, restaurants, wine, tagged 1977, Altesse, birthday, Domaine de la Pepiere, Domaine de Sablonettes, Lytton Springs, Pichon Lalande, Ridge, The Front Porch on February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Not much blogging going on here ’cause it’s my birthday today and I’ve had plenty of distractions, including a down home dinner at The Front Porch we had last night with friends. I brought along a bottle of Ridge’s 2000 Lytton Springs, which is about 80% zinfandel and 20% petite sirah, all from the Lytton [...]
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Posted in italy, natural wine, travel, wine, wine events, tagged Critical Wine, real italian wine, Verona, Vini Veri, VinItaly on December 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Gruppo Vini Veri, a loose organization of Italian wine producers who are part of the growing natural wine movement, have announced the dates of their 5th annual tasting, April 3-5, 2008. As usual, it’s staged during the VinItaly trade fair in Verona; however, the Vini Veri producers very much consider their event–and movement–to be [...]
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Apologies to Gang of Four…
So Monday night found me out on the town with the Third Degree. I was at the magazine until late trying to come up with something timely to say about the American Biodynamic movement, specifically following the Biodynamics Forum held here in San Francisco this past November. I managed about a [...]
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