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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Three days in LA: Food finds on a non-foodie trip

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A very LA breakfast at Sqirl Last week my wife and I went to enjoy the World Baseball Classic final round in the City of Angels. The tri...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Boom times for wine media! Now if only we have something to say

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In many ways, wine writing is better now than ever. There are fewer paid newspaper columns than 20 years ago, and for writers that's a...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Overwhelmed by wine education; I just want to drink wine

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This is the way I like to learn about wine Recently I attended an "educational" tasting of single-vineyard Barolo and Barbares...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Why vineyards and other farms hire illegal immigrants

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Last week I covered a Napa Valley Grapegrowers conference and wrote a news story about one of the topics covered : whether or not the coun...
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Monday, March 6, 2017

How I didn't get sued (yet): the bitter tale of ArKay alcohol-free whiskey

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Update: I got a threatening email and Facebook post after writing this post. I'll post them below. On Saturday I got a strange post ...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

The best 9, er, 4 current-release Tuscan white wines from San Gimignano

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Random street, San Gimignano It's tough to be a white wine in Tuscany. Red wines are king in this part of northern Italy, and no won...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Tasting the world's rarest wine grape

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Is the sun setting on Roussin de Morgex? I hate this kind of wine story: I tasted something so rare that you can't have it. But in t...
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