The Essence of Wine: Lime
Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch
Once it was a closely guarded military secret. Anti-scurvy powers lent an indelible nickname to the British, whose superstitious Limeys probably snatched the idea from Tantra, which prescribed the fruit to ward off evil ...
Vote for Vinography in the 2012 Saveur Blog Awards
I'm honored to have been nominated again for the Saveur Blog Awards, and if you enjoy Vinography and don't mind spending a minute or two on my behalf, I certainly would appreciate your vote.
The folks at Saveur do a very good job of putting these awar...
Meet The German Wine Queen
Beauty pageants have come and gone in America as a source of prime time entertainment. Where the Miss America pageant used to get serious top billing, it now can't compete with even the middle-rung of reality television, which provides all of the dram...
Weingut Nigl, Kremstal, Austria: Current Releases
If you begin in the medieval town of Krems, and turn your back on the Danube to instead follow the Krems river from where it hits the Danube back up a narrow valley, you will eventually find yourself in the village of Senftenberg, gazing up at an ancie...
Vinography Images: The Lone Oak
The Lone Oak
ALEXANDER VALLEY, CA: Rows of Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines follow up the hill to a lone oak tree in Sonoma County under the blue sky of Summer.
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Inaugural Austin Food and Wine Festival: April 27-29, Austin, TX
The quantity and quality of food and wine events in this country continues to improve with leaps and bounds. Once upon a time there were only one or two major (as in the kind of events that involve A-list celebrity chefs) food and wine festivals in t...
The Essence of Wine: Exotic Citrus
Image © 2012 Leigh Beisch
There was a time before lemon and lime, when from the far reaches of the East there came fruits of such shapes, colors, and scents that the gods themselves asked for a taste. Ganesh, in his wisdom, chose the citron, san...
Acid Freaks Unite!: Tasting Notes from In Pursuit of Balance 2012
I may be mangling the quote a little, but I swear I saw someone on twitter the other day say something along the lines of: "It may be possible that there's a wine out there with too much acidity, but I have yet to taste it."
I couldn't agree more. Fo...
Advancing Vinography Wine Press Relations
This post is another one of my periodic entries focused primarily on the wine industry. If you are a consumer, you may find this of less interest.
I've been blogging about wine here for more than 8 years, as many of you know, all the while, working p...
Vinography Images: Coastal Wine
Coastal Wine
FORT BRAGG, CA: Wine oak barrels are arranged along the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in this Mendocino County photo taken at Pacific Star Winery.
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2010 Grgich Hills Estate "Fume Blanc" Sauvignon Blanc, Napa
Visitors to Napa Valley, even those on their first trip, have a hard time missing the Grgich Hills winery, which sits prominently on the west side of Highway 29, its flower beds almost pushed right up against the edge of the blacktop.
Of course, when...
Tasting the World at ProWein
Imagine my surprise when I arrived at ProWein, Germany's largest wine exhibition, to find that German wines were in the minority. What I expected to be one large (but doubtlessly well organized) German wine love-fest, was in fact a stupendously large, ...
