Vinography Images: Napa Morning
Napa Morning
NAPA COUNTY, CA - 2009: A low flying hot air balloon lifts slowly above the surrounding grape vineyards as seen near Yountville on an early Summer morning.
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Matthiasson, Napa Valley: Current Releases
The past of most wine regions becomes physically embodied in its most iconic destinations, whether grand Chateaux, or venerable old cellars. The future of many wine regions, on the other hand, can be much harder to find. It is often tucked away, or som...
The Essence of Wine: Tobacco
Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch
Broad leaves, kiln fired, transmute a weed into an aromatic wonder that has conquered the world. Before it became a scourge, it was sacred to some of the world's earliest peoples. Like many such medicines, tobacco began ...
Schloss Gobelsburg, Kamptal, Austria: Current Releases
It seems like they have always been there. For centuries, the monks have been rooted as firmly as their grape vines, watching empires come and go, tending their secrets as carefully as the grapes and the sacred wines they produce. Shrewd investment and...
Mountain Wines of Italy: Tasting Notes from Alto Adige
From the snow-capped peaks of the Dolomites and the Alps, water trickles off glaciers down into steep-walled fertile alpine valleys where small villages and their vineyards beg to be photographed against the stunning backdrop of one of the world's most...
Vinography Images: Young Fruit
Young Fruit
RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY, CA: Tiny green and red clusters that will become flowers, and then a bunch of Pinot Gris grapes can be seen pushing out from the vine near Healdsburg in Sonoma County, California.
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Exporting America
On my recent trip to Austria, I stopped in at one of the city's more well-regarded chain wine stores, Wein & Co, and took a browse around. I always try to visit wine stores whenever I travel abroad, not only to do a little shopping, but also to get...
2012 Rosé Advocates and Producers Tasting: May 8, San Francisco
Thankfully, the broader community of American wine lovers seems to have gotten over its phobia of pink wines. We can now write about rosé without irony or cliché, and don't have to couch our advocacy of these food friendly wines with cave...
The Essence of Wine: Oranges
Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch
A fruit, a color. By its name, we shall know it well. From the ancient Dravidian and Sanskrit we receive the root naari, which means fragrant, and begets the name nagarugam, for the sweet fruit whose origins are lost in ...
Vinography Images: Lake and Oak
Lake and Oak
SONOMA COUNTY, CA: An oak tree in the Bennett Valley is reflected in pond water as seen in this Santa Rosa early morning spring photo.
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Weingut Veyder-Malberg, Wachau, Austria: Current Releases
In Austria's Wachau valley, it's hard to pay attention to what winemakers tell you, especially when they're talking with you in a vineyard. The Danube twists olive and lazy below incredibly steep hillsides terraced with centuries-old rock walls, each ...
San Francisco Vintner’s Market: April 14-15, San Francisco
Sometimes you hear an idea and wonder to yourself, exactly why it's taken someone so long to come up with it. And the really good ones make you think, "now why didn't I come up with that?"
That's exactly what I thought to myself when I found out abou...
