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November 22, 2019
I once found myself staring at a grenache vineyard in the southern Rhône Valley, along with a young California winemaker and a famous French winemaker. The latter was showing us the old vineyard that had produced the extraordinary wine we had just drunk. The Californian explained with great enthusiasm that he had recently planted grenache […]
November 1, 2019
Guest Blog by Nina Rosas Note from Karen: Our friend Nina Rosas, a lover of wine who has worked in the industry for over 20 years, spent hours researching this alarming piece on the historic use of asbestos in winemaking. Read on for her startling findings. It’s hard to believe (not to mention, hard to […]
October 11, 2019
The 75th Anniversary of the Napa Valley Vintners seems like a great time to open one of the valley’s stunning top cabernet sauvignons (read on for a list of my top choices), and to think a bit about where Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon has come from and where it is headed. Many readers may not […]
August 2, 2019
Note from Karen MacNeil: My friend the geologist David Howell, a former scientist with the United States Geologic Survey and now a visiting instructor on geology and wines at Stanford University, has become our go-to expert for all questions related to geology. And if I ever make a mistake on geology in print, you can […]
