Print Green: Digital Future

What color of wine do you prefer? Red, white, or rosé?  What about green?
Within the pages of color and aroma, you can read about people in the world of wine who apply that passion for producing fine wine to streamlining the resource expenditure used to develop each bottle.  Whether cutting energy costs with gravity flow winemaking [...]

Giving Grapes: Philanthropic Wineries Making a Difference

by Rachel Duchak
Grapes are a generous bunch.  Each cluster offers dozens of individual packages of sugars and tannins, seeds and skins. “Have more,” this fruit seems to say, bubbling with berries, “have another one.”  Long after they have become wine, these giving grapes likewise inspire a generous nature in others.  We bring wine as gifts [...]

Wine Finds: Thanksgiving

When it comes to food and wine pairing, Thanksgiving rules for one simple reason: so many wines pair well with the traditional fare.  Well, there are other reasons why Thanksgiving is great, but the multitude of wine options just makes it that much better.  With turkey, stuffing, potatoes, squash, cranberry sauce (jellied is acceptable) and [...]

Recipe: Winter Feasts

Wine is a subjective beverage, which helps explain why many find the prospect of developing a deeper relationship with it daunting and mysterious. It does not need to elicit such anxiety. Food is nourishment, yes, but it also can function as art.  Wine is the nourishment for the mind and soul and helps conjure the [...]

Pairing Food and Wine: Winter Feasts

by Jonah Waldman

Pairing wine with food need not be overthought. When all else fails, fall back on the familiar and simple traditional rules because they still work well today:

Red wines with red meats
White wines with white meats
Local wines with regional foods

Of course, with the globalization of the culinary world and the widening availability of [...]

Wine Finds: Grocery

Who says you can’t find a great value wine at a supermarket?  “Grocery store” wines are often forgotten.  What we forget is that most of these wines have earned their illustrious “grocery store” status because they are actually good values.  (We’ll save a thorough debate of “good value” versus “good.”  For now, think of “good [...]

Translate the Grape

When we attempt to put into words the sensations, aromas, flavors, and overall experience of wine, we’re often left struggling to find the right words, much like a traveler in a foreign land who doesn’t fluently speak the local language.  However, as anyone can tell you who has gone abroad with just a smattering of [...]

Once Upon a Wine: Baptism by Chenin

I wish I could say my journey to the vines began in Burgundy or the southern Rhône; an ecstatic stolen sip of Gigondas at thirteen that led upward and onward to palate greatness. Not so, friends and neighbors!  I was saved by a $9 bottle of California Chenin Blanc.
From whence I currently stand as sommelier [...]

California’s Great Missions: Romance, Controversy, Heritage

Some places were founded by great armies as they emerged victorious from difficult battles and successful invasions. Others became places by royal decree. But California, one of the largest economies in the world, was founded with a degree of humility by a five-foot two-inch priest named Junípero Serra.
Fourth-grade teachers across the state of California continue [...]

Wild West-Side Wine Country: Paso Robles

The bright December sun was warming the moist, fertile soil. Waiting for their turn to soak up the heat, the precious vines formed precise rows that smoothed the rugged hills like a manicure. Two dogs ran ahead with unabated enthusiasm. Winemaker Ryan Hebert planted each step with the slow caress of intimate knowledge of the [...]

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