Reading Time: [est_time] Samsara Wine Co. is one of our favorite producers in Santa Barbara County. Upon first visitng the tasting room in Los Olivos, we (especially Charine) were hooked. When Charine loves a wine, she knows it after the first sip. When we wrote our book
Reading Time: [est_time] The Cagliari International Wine & Food Festival takes place each summer in Sardinia. This last summer, we were invited by the organizers, APS Promo Eventi. This rendition of the event included the two-day festival and a one-day excursion to the village of Mamoiada
Reading Time: [est_time] We've been on the road non-stop since May 2015. For over three years, we’ve been traveling full-time around the world, exploring both lesser-known and established wine regions. It's a lot of traveling and a lot of learning; yet, we've barely scratched the surface of
Reading Time: [est_time] "You're a really good agriculturist but you're a bad winemaker." Angiolino Maule, La Biancara's winemaker and founder, thinks this statement from oenologist Franco Giacosa might have changed the course of his life as a winemaker. "In the past, I would say a good wine is 90% vineyard
Reading Time: [est_time] In 1976, Englishman Steven Spurrier organized a blind tasting, pitting Napa Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay against top-notch Red Bordeaux and White Burgundy. When the final scores were tallied, a Californian wine came out on top in both the red and white categories. The
Reading Time: [est_time] How do you approach a wine country that you are unfamiliar with? With respect, curiosity, enthusiasm, openness, and---above all else---love for the place and its people. This is a narrative of how we ended up writing a book about Croatian wine. THE BEGINNING In 2016, before
Known as Italy's workhorse grape, Sangiovese is found throughout the country but it is the most important in Central Italy especially in Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, and Le Marche. It's responsible for some of Italy's greatest red wines such as Brunello di Montalcino, Chianti Classico, Vino
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Good news for Croatian wine lovers and wine enthusiasts residing in the USA. Wine & More, Croatia's leading wine webshop, has just unveiled a mighty new limp. Adding to their EU-wide shipping, Wine & More has succeeded in making Croatian wines more accessible by introducing
Reading Time: [est_time] In 2001, a team of researchers---led by Dr Carole Meredith from UC Davis and Dr Edi Maletić and Dr Ivan Pejić from the University of Zagreb---found nine remaining vines of Crljenak Kaštelanski (pronounce Tserl-yee-ehnak Kashh-tell-ann-skee) in a Croatian town called Kaštel Novi, near Split. The name
Reading Time: [est_time] After writing about the history of orange wine and reviewing them for the last five years, Simon Woolf is finally taking the leap into authorship. Amber Revolution: How the World Learned to Love Orange Wine is a 250-page, full-color book that shares the history
