Over the decades we’ve visited hundreds of wineries around the world, and whether they are in Australia, Sonoma, France, Oregon, Washinton, Itay, or South Africa the best wineries producing the best wine have a few things in common. Here’s a fun little outline for you plus a nice little twist at the end. #1 Cleanliness […]
Up until about 2006, I was the first in line to talk badly about Minnesota wine. My cheeky normal response when I would get asked “what do you think of Minnesota wine?” (a question that came up every month or so in my classes) was always the same. It was a well rehearsed, and in my […]
I didn’t know I was opening a pandora’s box. Last week’s newsletter essay (if you don’t get them, please sign up) was about the upcoming Cold Climate Grape conference, and how I was encouraging everybody to consider going to the grand tasting on Friday 2/11 to learn more about the new varieties that have been developed, […]
The subtitle of this article should be “how to have pretty much the best summer weekend afternoon ever” but more on that later. For twenty years I’ve been fielding some version of the question “so what do you think of Minnesota wines?” For nineteen of those twenty years my answer was a pithy response along […]
