Fireworks in the sky, it’s almost the 4th of July, and I have something to celebrate. Next week, I join T. Edward Wines as the Head Writer of Marketing & Social Media. And I am excited! Writing for their website and blog, handling Facebook and twitter, I’ll be crafting winemakers’ stories and scripting in-house [.]. On Writin MORE >>

It's become my practice to taste and blend our wines in June of the year following harvest. Some wineries blend earlier, but I find that I enjoy the blending process just as the wines turn away from their sixth month in barrel. Before that, the nascent wines are too young to be focused enough for me to make the best of them. alcohol. alcohol. MORE >>

I’m going out on a limb here and say that women don’t really want their wine in perfume-shaped wine bottles. But that’s just what the grappa distillery Mazzetti d’Altavilla is making with their new “Essentia Vitae.&# Here’s what someone who hailed it as the packaging innovation of the week had to say. wine random MORE >>

According to John Hailman, author of Thomas Jefferson On Wine , Jefferson learned a neat trick from his French friend Henri Bergasse and adapted it to his Monticello cellar: Keep your wines safe and cool by simply covering them with wet sand. May be a bit messy but it certainly worked for Mr. Jefferson MORE >>

I began writing this blog in September of 2006 and although some things about the way I write the blog have changed, some things have remained constant throughout. try to write about what I'm learning and experiencing, and why it is important to me. write about wine and food, not about the other things I feel passionate about. don't cuss. MORE >>