Enobytes

On the heals of promoting my essay “Who Cares” for the Harper Collins publishing competition that Anthony Bourdain’s partnered with to promote his new book Medium Raw (which by the way was an entertaining read), I was jolted into the present with an article I read on Wine Business.com.  Now I find out the fabulous [...]

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Q: What’s the best way to quickly bring up the temperature of my red wine? Is a microwave recommended? A: I rarely use microwaves. Period…and I certainly wouldn’t recommend using it to heat up wine. Some colleagues disagree. Wine columnist Matt Kramer once touted its use and I’ve heard that some winemakers and others use [...]

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Last week, I had my wine geek friends over for drinks and conversation. Marc was busy preparing appetizers as I opened wine bottles that lined the table. Carrie, a very opinionated friend of mine started the conversation, “Who is driving the octane train — wine critics, climate change, consumers, technology, or all of the above?” [...]

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BOSTON, Mass. (November 24, 2009) – Tucked away in a tiny little store in Boston’s North End, a shopper finds a treasure not spotted by many. “I never thought in a million years I’d ever witness such a finding”, says local wine shopper Gregory Young. “I just happened to be shopping for a Grüner Veltliner [...]

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For the forty years I have been involved with wine there has been one story on the fringe operating in the background never in the spotlight and always conversed about in hushed tones among serious enophiles, always there yet never spoken of and even as I begin to write this I feel I may have [...]

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Today on Wine Bytes, my wine blog on OregonLive, I talk about The positive side of negative wine reviews. Many believe negative wine reviews are of no use to anyone, which is a concept that I find as hard to swallow as a raisiny Zin with TCA.  I buy wine like a consumer.  That status will [...]

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