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  • September 16, 2022

    How Heritage Old Vines Renewed California Zinfandel

    How Heritage Old Vines Renewed California Zinfandel

    In the mid-90’s California Zinfandel began positioning itself for a post-white Zin resurgence. However, quality selections were lacking. By sourcing cuttings from the state’s oldest, most prestigious vineyards, the Heritage Vineyard Project renewed California Zin.

  • August 6, 2022

    Mosel Winegrowers’ Focus On Soil Health Improves Wine Quality

    Mosel Winegrowers’ Focus On Soil Health Improves Wine Quality

    “Important components of vegetation in Reiler Mullay-Hofberg. From cultural land, fallow land, forest and water to humans and animals. Vegetation is the sum of plant formation and plant societies that frow in one area. It is characterized by climate, soil, relief, rock, aquatic content and by the influences of fire, animals and humans,” writes Thorsten…

  • July 23, 2022

    The Dirty Truth Soil Health Plays In Wine

    The Dirty Truth Soil Health Plays In Wine

    Walking through Joseph Cattin’s Le Clos Madelon Alsatian vineyard, it’s hard to imagine it once being a World War I battleground. The fully covered ground is soft, sponge-like under foot. Chickens forage freely through the vineyard. Indiscriminately extracted plugs of earth reveals moist, living soil teeming with microbial life.

  • May 26, 2022

    Bourgogne Grapples With Fighting Frost Without Producing Emissions

    Bourgogne Grapples With Fighting Frost Without Producing Emissions

    In seeking to first do no harm: Why are carbon dioxide producing active methods so widely utilized for fighting frost in Bourgogne vineyards, and elsewhere?

  • May 21, 2022

    What If The Wine Industry Adopted A First Do No Harm Mentality?

    What If The Wine Industry Adopted A First Do No Harm Mentality?

    This new series explores wine through a “first do no harm” practice with a focus on those elevating environmental and sustainability awareness from soil to glass.

  • May 14, 2022

    Sommeliers Share Insight On Transforming The Restaurant Industry From Racial Awareness To Antiracism

    Sommeliers Share Insight On Transforming The Restaurant Industry From Racial Awareness To Antiracism

    Afroamerican man wearing hoodie holds black facial mask with inscription We Need A Change. GETTY

  • April 21, 2022

    Loire Valley Producers Respond To Consumer Demand For Organic Wine

    Loire Valley Producers Respond To Consumer Demand For Organic Wine

    Are American wine drinkers specifically requesting certified organic wines? If so, what is behind this movement?

  • April 13, 2022

    Forbes Latest: History In A Glass: The Intoxicating Quality Of Old Vine Wines

    Forbes Latest: History In A Glass: The Intoxicating Quality Of Old Vine Wines

    Historical old vines are time machines, prophets, and cherished family heirlooms. They also produce some of the world’s most intoxicating wine.

  • October 15, 2021

    Latest in Wine Enthusiast: New Hope In Chile

    Latest in Wine Enthusiast: New Hope In Chile

    During this time wrought with division and marginalization, it is my humble honor to share a story of taking chances, hope, and trust in unlikely partnerships between Chile’s Indigenous Buchaheuico and Lickan Antay communities and it’s wine industry. Together these partnerships are addressing centuries of dehumanization and abstract poverty through wine production.

  • June 3, 2021

    Forbes Article: William Chris Vineyards Latest Wine Fights Food Insecurity For Millions Of Texans

    Forbes Article: William Chris Vineyards Latest Wine Fights Food Insecurity For Millions Of Texans

    You may not live in Texas, but have long been curious about the state’s wine. Today is the perfect opportunity to try a well-made, value priced, 100% Texas wine from one of the state’s top wineries, AND provide aid to millions of food insecure Texans simultaneously.

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