Author: Michelle Williams
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America’s Winemaking Past And Future Is Found In The Finger Lakes
Did you know the first wine grapes were planted in the Finger Lakes wine region, Hammondsport on Keuka Lake to be specific, ten year prior to the first wine grapes being planted in Napa Valley?
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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