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Thursday, April 15, 2021

Beautiful scenes from this spring's dangerous frost in Tuscany

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The story of 2021 for the wine industry in most of France is going to be the devastating frost that might reduce the crop by half or more, n...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021

How do people choose which wine to buy? An informal survey

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Last month I was staring at three bottles of wine. Each was the same grape variety and from the same basic region (but not sub-region). I d...
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Monday, January 18, 2021

I drank smoke-tainted canned wine and liked it

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Sans Wine Co. makes some of the best canned wines in the country, and to prove that fact they held an online media tasting last week of thre...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

I am so proud of my worst 2020 stories about wine

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I am immensely proud of the weakest stories I wrote in 2020. I was off my game for about half the year, and nobody told me they noticed. Peo...
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Friday, October 16, 2020

Endorsements for the Nov. 2020 election in San Francisco

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Greetings. Hopefully most of you have already voted, but if not, I'm here for you. Election endorsements are a tradition at The Gray R...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

National Black Farmers Association asks for a court injunction ending Roundup sales

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 Two weeks after spraying with Roundup. Courtesy UC Roundup may be the most widely used and thus financially successful herbicide in his...
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Sunday, August 30, 2020

Guest post: Don't write off the 2020 vintage, says Sonoma vintner Jake Bilbro

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Jake Bilbro, author of this guest post and owner of Limerick Lane I got a call last week from Limerick Lane winery owner Jake Bilbro, wh...
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