Category: wine varietals

• 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.

  Michelle Williams

  October 15, 2021

  Chile, Chilean Wine, Pinot Noir, Wine, wine tasting, wine travel, wine varietals, winegrowing

  Allyu Wine, Amerindian, be the change, Chile, Chilean government, Chilean Wine, Indigenous, making an impact, Mapuche, partnering for a better tomorrow, partnership, San Pedro Winery, travel, VSPT Wine Group, wine, wine review, winemaking

• Experiencing Pinot Noir through Scheid Family Vineyards

  

  Some would say Pinot Noir is the most noble of all vitis vinifera. Wine writers wax poetically about its virtues in red Burgundy. It is also a diva grape. It is fussy about where it grows, when it ripens, weather, rainfall, temperature, how many grapes are on its vine, the list goes on. If Pinot…

  Michelle Williams

  December 1, 2017

  Monterey County, Pinot Noir, Wine, wine education, wine review, wine tasting, wine varietals

  2014 Scheid Family Reserve Pinot Noir Monterey USA, 2014 Scheid Family Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir Doctor’s Vineyard Monterey USA, 2015 District 7 Pinot Noir Monterey USA, 2015 Scheid Family Estate Pinot Noir Monterey USA, 2016 Scheid Family Pinot Noir Rose Monterey County USA, California, Jancis Robinson, Monterey AVA, Monterey County, Pinot Noir, Scheid Family Wines, wine, Wine 101, wine review, wine-searcher

• March Madness / Wine Madness

  I love March Madness. To me March Madness means spring, fun, and great college basketball. Over the years I have twice won office pools with my brackets. Back in the days of the O’Bannon brothers at UCLA my winning bracket brought me enough dough to put new tires on my car! Some special highlights of this…

  Michelle Williams

  March 18, 2015

  Brackets, fun, March Madness, Music, Wine, Wine Madness, wine varietals

  Basketball, bracketology, brackets, Curtis Blow, Fun, March, March Madness, music, red wine grapes, spring, varietals, white wine grapes, wine, Wine Madness