Category: Music
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Casillero del Diablo: The Perfect Halloween Wine
“Darkness falls across the land; the midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of blood; to terrorize your neighborhood.” The ghoulish day of ghosts and goblins is upon us bringing terror and fear across the land. Actually, it brings children in super hero or princess costumes, candy and of course…wine!
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Hanging With Friends In Low Places
I love live music. Attending concerts is one of my favorite past-times. The excitement heading into the performance hall as the crowd anxiously anticipates the show, escalating up to the time of the opening act, then reaching a fever pitch once that act is done, there is nothing like it. Then watching everyone dance and…
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It’s All In The Clone
While I am in Italy I wanted to share with you this article I wrote earlier this year. Please share your thoughts…. How much do you know about clonal selections and blending in winemaking? Though some of you may know quite a bit, most of us know very little. However, not only do I love…
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Vertical to Heaven: Chappellet Tasting at TexSom
While I am in Italy I wanted to share this article I wrote last fall about the epic Chappellet vertical tasting I attended at the 2014 TexSom Conference. Please read and share your thoughts… I had the great pleasure of attending the 10th Annual TexSom Conference in Las Colinas (a suburb of Dallas) in early…
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Old World or New World: What’s Your Style
While I am in Italy I’d like to share with you an article I wrote earlier this year. Please read and share your thoughts…. Lately I have seen a lot of discussion of an ongoing topic in the wine industry: old world style winemaking versus new world style winemaking; or as eloquently summed up in…
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Separation of Church and Wine?
How well do you know world history? How well do you know history of the Christian tradition? How well do you know the history of wine? Why am I asking you these questions? Because historically there is no separation of church and wine. We know that the first vineyards predate Christian history by hundreds of…
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A Mystery as Old as Time
Do you enjoy a good mystery? Perhaps a classic “who done it” or even a modern episode of Dateline. Humans have been enthralled with mysteries since the beginning of time. In fact, there are many historical facts where the outcome is known but the circumstances surrounding the outcome remains a mystery. Though classic mystery books,…
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Celebrate #MerlotMe with #WinePW
Have you ever felt like you were misjudged or treated unfairly? For example, say someone told a group of people they did not like you, leading the group of people to assume there was something wrong with you, so without even knowing you they did not like you as well. That does not seem fair,…
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September Winestudio: Codorníu – A Family Tradition
As children we all loved a good fairy tale. The story of young forbidden love kept apart by some evil adult. Or stories of adventure where a group of companions face unforeseeable odds only to grow in self-confidence and friendship. These stories are timeless and follow us into our adulthood. The story of Anna de…
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The Many Faces of Garnacha
Can you think of a single grape that can enjoyed as a white, rosé and red wine? One of the oldest grape varietals in the world that has spent most of its lifetime as a workhorse doing the heavy lifting in some of the world’s best blends? Only one grape can fit this bill and…
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