Cirò: Calabria's Ancient Wine Heart
Cirò wine is not a product. It is memory, language and landscape, passed from one generation to the next for almost three thousand years. Drive north from Crotone along Calabria's Ionian coast and the... ...more
Wine Culture
October 05, 2026•6 min read
Organic Wine, Sulfites & Natural Wine: What Does the Label Really Tell You?
Personally, I don't want to make wine that tastes like a laboratory. But I also don't want to make wine that tastes like an uncontrolled experiment. I want to make wine that tastes like grapes from a ... ...more
Wine Culture
September 14, 2026•12 min read
How to Know If You’ll Like a Wine: 6 Key Things to Look For
When someone tells me, “I like Pinot Noir,” or “I like Cabernet,” that already gives me a lot of information. But the grape itself is only part of the story. What really matters is what you like about... ...more
Wine Culture
September 07, 2026•8 min read
The AROMAS of Wine - Why Your Wine Smells Like Roses
One of my favorite moments in the cellar comes in early spring, when I pull a sample of young white wine from the tank, swirl it, and suddenly the whole room smells like jasmine. People ask me all the... ...more
Wine Culture
August 31, 2026•7 min read
HOW WINE IS MADE — PART 3
If you have followed me through the first two parts of this series, we have already taken quite a journey together. We started in the vineyard with the harvest, followed the grapes through crushing an... ...more
Wine Culture
August 24, 2026•13 min read
HOW WINE IS MADE — PART 2
In the first part of this series, we followed the grapes from the vineyard to the cellar, starting with the harvest and continuing through destemming and crushing. At the end of that process, we have ... ...more
Wine Culture
August 17, 2026•13 min read
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